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it's no secret that people like to
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comparison shop it's just kind of in our
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nature we like to look at something that
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we're thinking about buying and then
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look at other things that are close in
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price or close and feature and decide
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which of the two is better and then make
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our purchasing decision that's just not
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an odd thing for human beings to do and
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so we don't get the opportunity as much
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as we would like to be able to do
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comparison videos because they take a
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lot of time and and you've got to have
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both devices around but right now we've
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got a lot of devices in the office and
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we want to do some of those comparisons
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and right up there at the top of our
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list of comparison videos to do is this
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one with the pixel book in the pixel
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slate because there's a lot of stuff
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they share in common
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specifically Google's DNA in them but
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there's a lot of things that are
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different about them and so I know
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because we get emails a lot and comments
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that a lot of people are trying to
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decide I'm gonna spend some money to get
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a premium Chromebook to go with this one
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I do I go with this one and so we want
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can get started today so a bit about
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these comparison videos and how we're
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going to do these as we move forward
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we're going to talk about five things
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and in general they'll mirror the way
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that we review devices to so we're gonna
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talk about build quality
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we're in talk about screens we're gonna
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talk about keyboard trackpad you know
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your input type stuff and then we're
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going to talk about kind of like
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internals ports and all that stuff
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speakers battery all that stuff together
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and then the fifth thing the one that's
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going to be a little bit more subjective
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than those first four is just going to
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be the overall feel of using the device
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on a daily basis and so we don't want to
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do comparison videos about devices we
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don't ever use we're going to do them
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about devices that we've spent some time
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with and have just basically formed an
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opinion on so just because something
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wins on a spec sheet doesn't really
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always mean it's the best overall device
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and so we want to throw that fifth
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category in there so that
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after we kind of tally up and say which
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one wins each of them we can at the end
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of it say at least subjectively to a
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point that this is the one I would
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choose if I was gonna buy one of these
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two devices today and so hopefully that
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can help you out a little bit all right
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so let's start with build quality and
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we'll talk about the pixel book first
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overall I really can't ask for too much
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more with the pixel book it is built
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just almost perfectly there are some
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little things that I don't like about it
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but honestly those come down to stuff
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that we're gonna talk about in a minute
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it's just aluminum and glass and it
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feels great and it's super thin and it's
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super light and even a year and a half
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after it's been put out there's nothing
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else that looks like it and when it's
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sitting on the desk it just looks modern
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and awesome and there's a very little to
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rag on with the pixel book but there is
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one thing and that is the palm rest and
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the feet on the bottom they just they
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discolor there's no way around it we've
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had three of them in the office and all
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of them are discolored and I don't know
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how to fix it but it's just kind of
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annoying and it's a bit of a scar on an
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otherwise just absolutely beautiful and
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well made device overall in the pixel
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slate you get superior build quality as
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well I mean these are both made by
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Google devices and so we expect that you
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know metal glass rounded edges it feels
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great in your hand it's perfectly
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balanced on one finger you know there's
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just a lot of good stuff going on with
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this tablet and and it looks great on a
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desk and it looks great in your hands
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and all that kind of stuff the one knock
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I have with the pixel slate is one it
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picks up fingerprints like a monster I
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don't know that you can put that as a
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knock necessarily against build quality
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it doesn't mean it's poor quality it
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just picks up fingerprints like crazy
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but the keyboard has to be talked about
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when we talk about the slate especially
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when we're talking about it against the
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pixel book so now the pixel book has a
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keyboard so we got to talk about what
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the keyboard looks like on the slate and
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in general like I like the keys on it
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and we're going to talk more about that
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in a second but when we talk about build
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quality this thing feels a little flimsy
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and I talked about that in a review
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whenever you've set it on your lap it
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can kind of just wobble around a lot it
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doesn't really
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firmly go into place and it's just not
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as high of a quality as the tablet it's
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attached to and so when we start talking
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about which one is built better
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they're both great don't get me wrong
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but overall package keyboard and screen
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included the wind has to go to the pixel
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book I feel like especially at a year
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and a half out for it to still feel as
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well engineered as it did the day I got
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it out of the box the winner has to be
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the pixel button all right so let's move
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on to screen and we'll kind of swap this
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up each time so we'll start with the
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pixel slate the pixel slate comes in at
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3000 by 2000 resolution is nice and
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bright IPS punchy colors wide viewing
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angles 3 by 2 aspect ratio 12.3 inches
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it's a great screen I mean things look
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really really good on it Google even
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went as far to brand it as a molecular
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display and so it apparently like fires
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electrons a little bit faster so that
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the refresh rate on it looks better to
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your eyes and I just have to say the
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screen on it's incredible like I have no
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NOx whatsoever with the pixel slight
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screen it's one of my favorite parts of
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the device moving on to the pixel book
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it has an equally impressive display
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it's 12.3 inches 3 by 2 ratio less
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pixels here so 2400 by 1600 on the pixel
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count but ultimately when you're looking
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at these devices from any kind of
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regular point of view like without a
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microscope basically you're not gonna
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notice the difference in pixel density
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so that doesn't really matter
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pixel book is a tad bit brighter than
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the pixel slate and I would say the
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colors are right on par there's some
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times in the pixel book can be a little
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washed out in its color so I think when
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we look at them side-by-side especially
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when we start talking about bezels like
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the pixel book has some pretty chunky
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bezels on it and turned some people off
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and then pixels slight reduce those a
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little bit when we look at these screens
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side by side and we just look at the
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stats the pixel slight wins but also
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when I just look at the devices too like
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there's just something about the pixel
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slights display overall that that draws
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me to it and watching movies and videos
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and stuff like that on it the win in
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this department I feel like has to go to
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the pixel slate alright next up is
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keyboard and trackpad so the basic way
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that you're going to interact with your
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device sure they both have touchscreens
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but
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the Chromebook so we're gonna get
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productive on these things so keyboard
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and trackpad really really matter let's
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start with the pixel book if you've
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watched any of my videos you probably
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know that it's my favorite keyboard of
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all time I love it I love it to this day
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every time I have review any other
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device or work from any other device I
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go back to it and it just feels like
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home a little bit to me and part of
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that's just because I've used it a lot
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but part of it is because it is
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excellent and even when we talked with
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the folks at bridge and they were
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talking about keyboards and key frames
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they went on and on about how good the
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key frame is in the pixel book and I
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just think that they nailed it they did
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something here that is fantastic and
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it's well built it stood up to the test
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of time I don't have Miss keystrokes it
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just feels great it works great I love
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every bit of it
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trackpad is equally as good it's class
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the click mechanism feels perfect it may
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be a little bit loud for some people to
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click but other than that I mean input
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methods on this thing are absolutely
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top-notch so when we talk about the
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keyboard and trackpad on the pixels
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slate it's a little bit of a different
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scenario here because this is built as a
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tablet with a detachable keyboard it's a
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tablet first and it's a clamshell slash
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keyboard toting laptop type thing second
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and so you kind of feel that it's not
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that the keyboard is bad it's it's
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pretty good and to be as thin as it is
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the keyframe feels really good and the
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halo effect on the round Keys like that
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that doesn't bother me at all actually
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typed from a different keyboard that has
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round keys and I don't know if it
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actually lives up to Google's spec that
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it helps you make less errors but that
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all that stuff feels great and the
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travel is surprisingly good just to the
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click enos on the pixel slights keyboard
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isn't as good as the pixel book and that
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honestly shouldn't be that much of a
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surprise to anyone the the whole thing
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is a little bit flimsy in general and we
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talked about that in the build and so
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that kind of reflects it's a great
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trackpad and all of this feels really
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good actually when it's on a desk it's
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the minute you move it to any other
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surface you start losing some of the
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click ability the trackpad the key start
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feeling a little bit less clicky and
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just overall the experience kind of goes
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downhill but we have to talk about this
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device too because this is actually an
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additional device that you can get the
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bridge GTI keyboard that's made
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specifically for
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the pixels late and it is a Bluetooth
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driven keyboard but it's backlit the
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keyframe feels really really good and
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it's aluminum so it's gonna give you the
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stability whenever you're on your lap or
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on an uneven surface that you're not
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gonna get from this keyboard it's acts a
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little bit cheaper than google's
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keyboards so there is some selection to
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be had with the pixel sight which is
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pretty cool and who knows down the road
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there could be another company that
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comes and makes another keyboard so you
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could choose a keyboard that works for
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you but it doesn't even matter for me
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personally because at the end of the day
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track pads are pretty equal keyboards
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are not this thing has the best keyboard
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I've used hands down across any device
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and so you can have three or four
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keyboards over here
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they don't add up to how good the one is
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on the pixel book so for me in this
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category I have to give the win to the
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pixel book so for our fourth section
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we're going to talk about internals and
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that includes stuff like speakers and
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ports and processors and all that kind
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of stuff so there's a few places where
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both devices the pixel book and pixel
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slate kind of line up and it's just a
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push and so let's talk about those real
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quick performance in general day-to-day
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it's going to be about the same between
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the devices if you've bought the similar
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specs now you can buy some low respect
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versions of the pixel slate and I
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wouldn't necessarily recommend those but
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when we line them up to each other and
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say you know Core i5 on both devices at
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gigs ram on both you're not gonna notice
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a whole lot of difference in performance
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day to day the internal storage is about
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the same on both of them depending on
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the configuration you buy so all that
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stuff feels like just kind of a push so
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let's move on past that and talk about
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well ports
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oh yeah that's a push to because they
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both have two USB type C's and a head
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hold wait a second this one has a
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headphone jack and that one doesn't so
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this has become one of those devices
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that decided to get rid of a headphone
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jack for no good reason so that's a bit
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of a knock on the pixel sight for me but
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they do include the little dongle that
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they do with the pixel three and they
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did with pixel two as well so you at
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least have an option to get headphones
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out in general because the speaker
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sounds so good I've never found myself
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wanting to do that anyway but then we
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got to talk about those speakers the
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speakers on the pixel book sound okay
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they they get by and they kind of come
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up through the keyboard
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you know they'll let you hear the audio
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on the screen that you need to kind of
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see they're taking a video or something
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like that the speakers on the pixel
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slate are phenomenal they're they're the
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best speakers on a light portable device
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I've ever heard and I've actually
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watched full-length movies on it I've
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watched full-length shows and every time
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I get this device back out and start to
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watch a video I just kind of sit back
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and go man
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such great speakers I just I really
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really love them they're wide enough to
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provide stereo separation and they're
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just awesome they just increase the
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likeability of this device so much that
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even the stuff I've knocked on it it
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makes me want to use it just because the
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speakers are so good and right up above
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them as a fingerprint scanner and that
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sounds like a little thing but there are
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no other Chromebooks with it and it just
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makes walking up and logging in with one
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touch such a nice addition to the
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overall experience and so when we start
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talking about internals if we include
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all of that stuff because it's basically
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a push from performance so the pixel
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slate has to win this category because
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the speakers in the fingerprint scanner
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just really put it over the top so let's
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move on to the fifth thing and that's
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just kind of this aesthetics and feel
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like how's it feel to use the device
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well both of these are premium and it
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feels great to use both of them to be
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honest with you like neither one is a
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terrible experience and so I really kind
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of have to back up and go which one do I
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just feel most confident in picking up
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so if I've got to get something done
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I've got to take care of a job or
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whatever the case may be which one am I
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gonna go grab first when when push comes
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to shove and for me that's that's the
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pixel book just in general because if
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I've grabbed this one and it's got the
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soft case on it I don't like the way it
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Wiggles around I don't like not knowing
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where I'm gonna be set up to work if I
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have to work out on my lap I really
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don't like using it I don't have to
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think about any that stuff with the
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pixel book and with the pixel book if I
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need tablet if I need to hold as a
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tablet and take notes or write or
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something like that well I'll just flip
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it in a convertible mode and use it that
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way for a little bit and so overall in
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general when it comes to just aesthetics
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when it comes to do is using the device
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on a day to day basis the best overall
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device for me would be the pixel book so
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if you've been keeping score as we wrap
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up you
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can see the writing on the wall the
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pixel book has three and the pixel slate
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has two and that's kind of indicative of
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the way I feel about these two devices
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they're really close in a lot of ways
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but they're just kind of different if
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you're looking for a clamshell device
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then clearly the pixel book is the way
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to go and if you're looking for a tablet
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first clearly the pixel slates the way
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to go but if I'm forced to put them
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against each other now I'm forced to
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choose one to work from for it to be my
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only device and to be the one I'm gonna
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spend my money on and use on a daily
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basis for me there's just no question
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overall the holistic experience of using
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the pixel book is just a better one at
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this point then the pixel slate and
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again it is not to say that the pixel
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slates a terrible device it's gotten
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some rough reviews out there I still
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enjoy using it it's just when I'm forced
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again to put them side by side I have to
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go with the pixel book and it is our
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winner in this versus video and so guys
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