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so there's a good chance if you're
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watching our videos on YouTube you don't
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keep up with all the latest news over at
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chrom andbox decom we kind of get into
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very fine details over there but there
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is one story that's kind of been
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developing over the last few months that
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I think is really worth our YouTube
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audience knowing about and it's mediat
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Tech's latest greatest biggest baddest
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fastest arm chip uh right now still code
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named as the Mt 8196 but it's coming in
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a few Chromebooks hopefully in the next
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few months and it promises some really
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wild speed gains and so I just thought
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it'd be a good time to tell you guys
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about
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it so a bit of backstory before we get
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into this we've had arm chips in
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Chromebooks before quite a few of them
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actually and none of them are really
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like Flagship like fastest Chromebook
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you can buy level and part of that is
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due to the fact that arm in general um
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just hasn't really been up to Snuff with
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you know what Intel has offered over the
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years but that's changed in the last
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couple years and if you've looked at
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anything from Apple um some of these new
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windows devices these co-pilot PCS with
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Snapdragon inside arm is making big
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moves when it comes to just raw power in
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in laptops and in PCS and so you know
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what Apple's done with the M1 M2 M3 and
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Max Ultra and all that stuff those are
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all arm chips they're all based on arm
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cores and uh that's the same kind of
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stuff that's in your tablets and your
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phones and again we've had Arm based
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chips in Chromebooks that just have
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never been that fast fast and and again
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that's that's all changing now we knew
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that the Mt 8196 was coming uh we've
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known it for a little while uh there's
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another chip actually the Mt 8189 that's
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beginning development too but the 96 is
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way further along and it's only one
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digit more than the Mt 8195 that is
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actually out in in Chromebooks that I
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don't even know if any of them are on
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the market still but they are the
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compano 1380 and compano 1200 uh there
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were a couple devices that had those in
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them and it's like those Chromebooks
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came out and just kind of got shuffled
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away they were pretty powerful though
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but they were still not quite up to what
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Intel offers you know the the latest
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grest Intel chips it was like yeah
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they're they're fast for arm Chromebooks
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but they're not fast fast but what we're
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seeing here lately with the Mt 8196 is
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in geekbench um they're running some
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tests on them whoever's developing on
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them they're actually running them
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through geekbench and just a few days
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ago uh the Mt 8196 was run its code name
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uh if you want to look the stuff up for
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yourself uh the baseboard is raw
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uh r a u Ru uh in the development board
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the actual Chromebook itself that we're
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expecting hopefully sometime in 2025 is
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na'vi naavi and that device if you go
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search for raru or na'vi on geekbench 6
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you're going to get some results and the
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latest results are incredibly impressive
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so in single core it's getting
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2545 and then in multicore
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7841 and to put those in reference when
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I started looking up geek bench scores
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for all Chromebooks every Chromebook all
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of them the fastest ones I could think
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of the ones with core i7s the ones with
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16 gigs of RAM all of them those scores
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beat all those Chromebooks so I mean
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again let's put it into reference we're
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talking about things like the latest
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Acer Chromebook 714 the the big bad uh
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Asus
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cx54 you know even gaming Chromebooks
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that have you know extra cores in them
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for performance and stuff like that like
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the 516 G from Acer it's not to say
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these Chromebooks are slow in any way
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shave or formance actually to say that
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these are very very fast Chromebooks and
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that this new chip that is coming to at
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least two Chromebooks uh in the in the
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next year or so uh from mediatech we
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don't know exactly what it's going to be
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called uh it looks like it's based on
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the dimensity 9400 which is a monster
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chip in phones and tablets already right
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now it's kind of the same core layout
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but this chip in Chromebooks right now
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is beating all Chromebooks all of them
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the fastest Chromebook you can imagine
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this arm chip is going to be faster and
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that's a big deal because this will be
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the first time that arm has been able to
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like really honestly compete for like
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Flagship status it will end up being
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obviously the first arm powered
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Chromebook plus model or models
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hopefully we're going to get a few of
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them uh but you know arm brings with it
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all these benefits you get not just the
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performance but you're going to get
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great battery life you're going to get
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the ability to have very thin chassis I
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know I'm saying that with the Samsung
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sitting next to me it's incredibly thin
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with Intel inside but you get the idea
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you can you can be a little bit more
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flexible with the hardware when you're
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using an arm chip cuz you don't
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necessarily have to have fans if you
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don't want to uh depending on on the
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processor load and it just allows you a
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little bit more flexibility in the form
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factors of things that you can build and
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so it's super exciting to see so before
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we wrap this up I want to show you what
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performance currently looks like cuz a
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lot of times in our reviews anymore we
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just kind of move past this like we just
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say yeah it's fast and because
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Chromebooks have gotten to the point
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where there's so much headro they are
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fast and so we don't spend a ton of time
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like showing you the same stuff over and
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over again but I've opened up just an
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absolute ton of stuff on the Samsung uh
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Galaxy Chromebook plus and it's not even
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the fastest of Chromebooks like some of
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these over here I would say probably
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would score a little higher than the
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Samsung but you get the idea like we
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want to show you kind of what this
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performance is and what it looks like
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right now and know that in an arm-based
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Chromebook here in the next few months
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likely we're going to have arm-based
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Chromebooks that are going to be faster
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and more performing than this so as you
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can see I have the uh the article that's
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talking about all this kind of stuff and
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you can see on the screen now just uh
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some of the other so the GPU test the
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npu all of them across the board this
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this upcoming Chip is going to win in
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all categories it's just wild to me uh
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that this is happening but uh I just
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want to show you kind of overview of
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what I've got going on here so we got I
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think seven concurrent YouTube videos
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playing and if they've stopped I'm going
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to get them all started here and so
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you'll kind of see me
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uh swipe around the interface let's keep
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keep these things going let's keep them
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going let's keep them going here uh that
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one's just a page um this one's got a
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couple things on it that one's still
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going yeah we've kicked the fans on that
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means we're actually getting some stuff
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done here only kicked on for a second
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though here we
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go what's that count up to now like six
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seven I
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think uh there we go and so you can see
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I can still move around the interface
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um swipe gestures all that kind of stuff
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um with no real issue I can switch
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between virtual desks nice and quick no
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problems there we can go to overview
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quickly move between applications I can
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move stuff between screen oops missed
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the missed my drop there oh I'm on that
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screen user error there drop this one
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over here then we'll go back to here and
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then we'll throw this up and throw this
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over here so I mean obviously no no real
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in performance here I mean this thing is
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uh this thing's moving along just fine
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and I'm I'm pushing it Way Beyond what
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what you normally would push it but we
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just wanted to show you like that's
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current level Intel uh performance uh
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that's the 13th gen core I3 I think and
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so yeah these Chromebooks can actually
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get a little even a little faster than
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that like I said there's tons of
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performance overhead already in
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Chromebooks at the top end when you get
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to that $6 $700 range and what we're
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saying is this latest arm ship is going
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to beat all of them um and again if you
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haven't been following Chromebooks or
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you you don't pay that much attention to
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processors and arm versus x86 look I get
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it this may not seem like that big of a
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deal to you but I'm telling you it's a
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big deal uh it's a big shift in the
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Chromebook space because it'll be the
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first time uh that we'll have Flagship
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caliber Chromebooks with arm processors
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inside and so we are looking very very
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forward to this happening we got our
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fingers crossed hoping uh that maybe in
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the at the Chromebook showcase that
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should happen sometime in in the spring
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uh that maybe we'll see at least a a
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preview of one of these devices but
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