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Right off the bat, I want to make sure we're all looking at the Poin2 Chromebook 14 through a very particular lense: the lense of price. You see, when a device drops down into this price range, it becomes quite a bit easier to forgive things that aren't perfect, and that is exactly the case when we talk about the Poin2 Chromebook 14. Since you can find this Chromebook anywhere between $250-$300 brand new on Amazon on any given day, we have to allow that to inform the way we review this Chromebook.
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when it comes to buying a Chromebook
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there's generally two camps of people
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the people with the latest greatest
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hardware and the best build materials
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and don't really care how much it cost
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and then there are the people that want
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the most bang for their buck and they
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want the best deal and they want to get
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as much as they can out of every dollar
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if you're in that second camp of people
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a quick note before we get into all the
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normal parts of the review for this one
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and that's the price I normally save
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that for the end of the review but it
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informs everything about this Chromebook
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because when price gets low and low
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enough this one being in the 250 to 260
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dollar range brand new all the time
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pretty much on Amazon that changes the
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way you look at basically everything so
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if it doesn't have the best screen in
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the world or the best keyboard or the
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best trackpad or whatever fill in the
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blank
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you kind of start forgiving those things
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when you can only spend 250 bucks when I
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can buy multiple of these for what I
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would pay for a higher in Chromebook you
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start to forgive a lot of things so I
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wanted to mention that right off the top
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250 $260 somewhere in there on Amazon
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again the link will be in the
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description as it always is but keep
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that in mind as we go through each of
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the parts of this review so first up is
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build quality when we start talking
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about sub $300 Chromebooks in general
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what you're met with is a lot of plastic
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a lot of flimsy and pretty much the
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bargain-basement of build materials and
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that's just not the case with the point
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to chromebook sure there's a plastic
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edge around most of it but the general
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large parts of it the top the bottom and
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the keyboard deck are all built out of
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brushed aluminum and so it gives it a
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nice kind of premium feel in general it
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gives it kind of a premium look and it
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makes it feel sturdy and substantial
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it's a little bit heavy and that's just
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to be expected when you get this much
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aluminum on any device
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but overall
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the feel of this thing does not feel
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like a $300 device in any way shape or
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form I was really impressed with it the
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minute I got it out of the box and after
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having used it for a little while I'm
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still impressed with it I like the way
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this thing is put together moving on to
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the screen again I go back to this idea
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of the price really kind of informing my
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opinion on this but this is a decently
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good screen it's not the best screen
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you're gonna ever see but it is full HD
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14 inches 16 by 9 it's a touchscreen and
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it gets decently bright it's not gonna
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stand up against some of the high
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high-end Chromebooks but in most
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lighting situations it was fine for me
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touch works just like you would expect
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it to the colors look good it's IPS it
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has good viewing angles so again sub 300
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bucks
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I don't expect too much what I actually
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expect on most Chromebooks is a bunch of
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washed out viewing angles terrible
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colors all that kind of stuff and you
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don't get any of those things on this
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Chromebook it actually looks pretty good
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and when you're using it you don't sit
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around and think about how bad the
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display is and that's a big deal on a
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Chromebook for less than 300 bucks
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moving on down the keyboard and trackpad
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are pretty good here I think
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somewhere in like a mid-range Acer
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device for instance where you're getting
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a lot of travel not the best clique in
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the world but it's serviceable it's not
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a bad keyboard I've certainly used many
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worse keyboards and there's no
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backlighting here and that's not really
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a surprise
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overall typing on this is just average
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it's okay the trackpad is a little below
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average and not necessarily because of
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the surface the surface has a weird
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coating on it that seemed to help it and
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kind of resist building up oils so as
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far as smoothness goes it stayed smooth
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for long periods of time the click
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mechanism though is where this thing
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felt really budget it wasn't floating
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around and flopping around like some
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that I've run into before that we're
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really aggravating that way that's not
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the problem
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it actually was almost like on the other
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side where it was too stiff to click and
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it it just felt like work using it and
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it could just be our model here you may
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order this thing and not run into that
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whatsoever so it's not a terrible
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trackpad it's just not great and so it
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kind of just falls in that average
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category but again I have to go back to
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the price at this price point when I
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consider how much we paid to get this in
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the office and start reviewing it
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it just doesn't really bother me that
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much around the sides of the device who
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were met with him interesting port
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selection there's a little bit of
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everything going on here but just kind
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of one of each one so we've got a USB
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type-c that can be used just like any
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other USB type C so display or charging
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or data transfer then you have a USB
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type a and then you have a full size
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HDMI slot which is kind of interesting
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we don't see those very often at all and
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then you have a full size SD card slot
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over on the other side headphone
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microphone jack and a Kensington lock so
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again a little bit of everything here
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and in general that means you can kind
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of live a dongle list life so if you
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just need to hook it up to a projector
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or a screen you've got HDMI just plug
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the cable in you need SD card support
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from your camera or something like that
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well no need for an adapter just plug it
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in there and that seems almost a little
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bit odd in this day and age because this
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is a slightly older baseboard in general
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it's got some of those ports on it and I
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kind of miss some of them it's nice to
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be able to just hook stuff in and know
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that I don't have to have a dongle with
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me to get all the connections that I
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need on a daily basis finally let's talk
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about performance and internals on this
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device we've got the media tech 81-73
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processors an ARM processor paired up
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with four gigs of RAM and 32 gigs of
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internal storage the four gigs of ram
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and 32 gigs of internal storage are
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pretty normal on lower-end Chromebooks
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and so while I'd like to see 64 gigs of
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storage it's not that big of a deal and
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we know that 4 gigs of ram can get by
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pretty well for most devices what's a
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little bit different here is that this
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is an ARM chip and for those of you who
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aren't familiar ARM chips are generally
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used in phones and tablets and things
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like that so they are geared well
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towards running Android apps because
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Android app developers first and
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foremost are always going to write their
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apps for ARM based chips first and so
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what we did see is that running Chrome
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based tasks and browser based things I
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think it along ok they do they do fine
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especially if you keep things kind of
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minimalized so you don't want to have 40
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tabs open try having like 5 tabs open
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and only a couple apps and closing stuff
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in the background and everything moves
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along well enough to get stuff done and
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it's fine but when we start talking
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about Android performance and Android
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app performance I was really really
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surprised on how well some 3d games like
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modern combat or Altos Odyssey they ran
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really really smooth high
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frame rates and things just worked
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really well and I could play them with
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the touchscreen and it surprisingly
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compared to the way it operated with
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chrome did really really well and so
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that's something to consider if you're
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going to get this device and you're
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going to use a lot of Android
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applications it's going to probably do
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better than you would expect it to at
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$250 if you're buying it to primarily do
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Chrome based tasks and you like to have
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a ton of stuff open and windows all over
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the place just know that you're probably
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going to bog this processor down but in
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general it does pretty good especially
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again considering 250 bucks so it all
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comes right back around to price and
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whether you should buy this device and
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so as we wrap up it's pretty easy to
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tell you if you're gonna spend less than
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$300 and you want the most bang for your
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buck this is the Chromebook to go for it
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just got a lot of stuff going for it in
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this price bracket and you're not going
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to find much else that brings you a
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decent viewing angle on your screen Full
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HD 14-inch aluminum build a decent
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trackpad and a decent keyboard and all
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the ports and all that kind of stuff
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you're just not gonna find something
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this good in this price range one thing
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I do need to say about it though as we
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wrap up this device actually has been
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out for a little longer than what we're
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seeing like we just got it in the office
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a month ago and it just showed up in
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Amazon around that time but it's
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actually been out for like a year and a
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half so when you start talking to end of
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life with Chromebooks it ranges
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somewhere between five and six and a
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half years I think the end of life on
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this one is about three to
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three-and-a-half years from this point
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on so it's a $250 Chromebook we don't
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expect it to last for like five or six
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years but some of you buy devices and
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you want to think through how long you
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can keep it how long it's going to keep
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getting updated and so that is something
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you need to consider
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yeah it's cheaper but the end of life is
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gonna be a little sooner than maybe you
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would expect if you do decide to
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purchase this device but overall it's so
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easy to recommend I've actually kind of
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enjoyed using it and again every time I
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get a little frustrated with it or I
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think I wish it would move a little
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faster or I just
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love the screen at this particular angle
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or whatever it's so much easier to look
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at it be like they have videos 250 bucks
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you know if it fixes so many of the
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issues that we have with Chromebooks in
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general when they're just this
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affordable and so guys that's it for
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