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With Chromebook sales through the roof and inventory being a bit scarce as we find ourselves firmly in back-to-school mayhem, we’ve begun looking at every possible option when recommending affordable Chromebooks for students. While we’ve long panned the Samsung Chromebook 4 and 4+, they are among the few affordable Chromebooks still available and still reasonably-priced, so we're going hands-on.
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here we are smack dab in the middle of
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back to school season and low price
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chromebooks are getting harder than ever
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to find
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but one chromebook that's been available
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across multiple channels is this one the
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samsung chromebook 4
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and 4 plus which is the one we have our
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hands on right here so
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we want to do a quick unboxing get some
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initial impressions because we've not
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spent any time with this chromebook yet
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so that you might be able to find one of
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these before school gets started again
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[Music]
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it needs to be said that we did not jump
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on reviewing this device
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right out of the gate uh for a handful
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of reasons it's just one of those
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chromebooks that doesn't bring a ton of
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like
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really interesting stuff to the table
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and it's always been priced a little bit
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too high i think so
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this device has the n4000 processor the
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gemini light processor that
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tons of other chromebooks have and
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honestly it's just not been that
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exciting of a chromebook to think about
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because the price has been a little bit
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too high compared to other devices that
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are similarly spec so
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we just kind of kept pushing off this
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review we couldn't get a review unit
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from samsung and
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just weren't really sure that this was
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one that we would really want to
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encourage our readers and our viewers to
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go check out
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but we're now in the middle of the back
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to school rush and chromebooks are
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getting insanely hard to find
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but the four plus is available at quite
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a few places at least
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as of the time of filming this so we
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wanted to unbox it and give you some
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initial impressions because ultimately
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i have no impressions of this device i
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saw it at a store once and kind of
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looked at it
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real quick but didn't really spend much
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time getting my hands on it so
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uh i thought this was a cd i swear to
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god i thought this was like
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they're gonna put like a cd in here like
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what am i supposed to do with this
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it is not a cd
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okay that's whatever
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uh interesting
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it's a nicer charger than you get in
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most uh low end
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chromebooks honestly you usually get the
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big you know normal
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three-prong thing and the block and then
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another cable so
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you get a nice chunky block here
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it says samsung fast charging so it's
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probably at least a 30 watt if not 45
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and a pretty nice cable i mean again you
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get excited about little things in low
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end chromebooks that's
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that's a nicer than normal charging
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setup uh for a
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an affordable chromebook and i believe
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we got our hands on this one
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for uh just over 300 so
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somewhere in that realm obviously
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chromebook prices are fluctuating wildly
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right now
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but it seems like across the board the
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prices on
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this particular chromebook aren't going
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crazy which is nice to see
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because this is going to be a decently
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good
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chromebook for students uh for basic
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education tasks that kind of stuff we
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just need to see if it's
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you know worth the money basically and
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as other chromebooks like i said are
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getting harder to find
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it's harder to find decent deals on
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stuff and you know
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it actually it feels really solid
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that might be an aluminum top actually
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definitely a plastic on the bottom but
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really good looking so around the sides
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you know you get this nice just squared
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off look
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and again we've seen this in photos but
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it's hard to tell whether this will
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translate on the video but
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i don't know that squared off gives kind
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of this uh
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pixel bookish almost chromebook pixel
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vibe um and it's not like unwieldy again
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really kind of sturdy for what i would
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call an entry level
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you know basic chromebook
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uh inside is definitely plastic and then
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as we move
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you know this is again like i said this
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is a very simple take no backlit
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keyboard here no upward firing speakers
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a plastic trackpad it's nice and large
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click mechanism feels pretty good
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there's a little bit of give here in the
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in the top part here and typing
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experience is probably going to be okay
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as well
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again this is a 300 to 400 chromebook so
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you can't expect
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too much out of it um yeah bottoms
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the bottom's relatively flimsy um down
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here
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so again you kind of get what you pay
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for in these scenarios
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but i want to boot this thing up and
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actually type a few things on it see
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what the screen looks like that's
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probably
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the most important thing what's the
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trackpad screen and keyboard feel like
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at least on first blush so you can maybe
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take this unboxing video and
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make a decision whether or not you want
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to pull the trigger on this thing
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because like i said
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stock for chromebooks is just kind of
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plummeting so we're gonna take a break
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real quick
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power this thing on and check it out
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okay
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so cheated a little bit and while we
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were powering it on i went ahead and
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just
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ran a couple little tests on it
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basically feeling what the thing feels
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like is you're actually gonna be
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handling it
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listening to the speakers just a little
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bit and then obviously going through the
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login screens and getting everything set
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up forming a couple of opinions about
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the screen
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so i want to talk to you about those
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specific things really quickly again
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i'm not spending any time with this
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other than the few minutes i've been on
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camera here
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but time is of the essence right now and
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so if you need to make a chromebook
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purchase
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you probably don't have time for us to
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wait to do two or three weeks in a
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review on this thing you need to decide
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now whether it's worth the money so
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i did go and check 299 is what we paid
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for this one at walmart
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it's going to be similarly priced at
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samsung.com it's available at best buy
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as well i think b h photo sells it
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we'll compile the links we'll make sure
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all those links are available on chrome
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shop and the link will be in the
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description in the video
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all that to say you need to know at 300
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bucks you're getting a couple good
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things here
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and you're getting a couple of flimsy
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crappy things here as well so
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the keyboard feels great so again if
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we're thinking about students they're
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going to be typing a lot the keyboard
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feels excellent it's not backlit but
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it's really clicky it's very nice it
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feels great to type on
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so far the the look and aesthetic of the
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device is actually really attractive on
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the table
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until you open it up and you see the
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screen you can probably tell i'm going
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to kind of tilt it
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i would assume you'll be able to pick up
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on that kind of stuff it is a tn panel
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so there's no surprises here it doesn't
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have very good off angle viewing i will
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say left to right
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off angle you can probably tell this
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here you don't lose too much whenever
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you go left and right
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but you go forward and back and you're
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going to lose all kinds of brightness
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the colors are going to blow out yeah
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it's just it's kind of a mess so you
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really have to angle the thing back
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quite a bit it's not a full flat but it
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does open up pretty well here you can
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see
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it opens up at a decent angle and that's
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a good thing because if you're a taller
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person or you're sitting up high on the
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desk or whatever
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you're going to angle that thing back
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pretty good to kind of get all the
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colors that should be on the screen and
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because it's a 15.6 inch screen you're
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not going to get all those colors anyway
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because there's probably no one angle
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where you're going to be able to see the
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entire screen perfectly it's a tn panel
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they're cheap
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and they you know show you what's on the
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screen and don't do much else but
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it's usable it's serviceable it works
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and the keyboard is really good the
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trackpad is plastic
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and isn't the smoothest thing i've ever
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felt but the click mechanism feels good
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it's very spacious
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uh and so i don't think it'll be a
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problem either
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the issue is a good keyboard and
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trackpad are like 90 of the answer
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the other problem usually comes in with
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flex on the keyboard deck
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and this one has got it you know a
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decent amount of it
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uh when the when the things open a
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little more i'll slide it forward just a
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little bit
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you can see it kind of loses all sorts
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of firmness there so like
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for some reason when it's up here it's a
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lot more stable
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the minute this thing goes back i think
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what happens is the hinge
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on the bottom actually lifts the
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chromebook up a little bit uh you can
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probably see that here in the side view
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you can see it picks it up and when it
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does so you really feel the flimsiness
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here
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but it's when it's all set when the
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whole base is on the ground
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it's it's pretty firm so again a little
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bit of an oddball design decision there
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we're pretty sure the top here is
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aluminum which is awesome
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uh in the 300 chromebook but the bottom
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is going to feel a little bit flimsy so
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you've got a kind of mediocre screen but
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it is 1080p uh
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full hd uh you've got a good keyboard
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and a decent trackpad
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we also tested the speakers uh i will
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actually timetable they're not the
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[Music]
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again not the loudest thing ever but
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like the sound
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is actually pretty full and better than
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a lot of
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you know better specked more expensive
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chromebooks that we've tried so
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that's kind of a nice surprise and so
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ultimately the n4000 is gonna perform
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pretty well
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you're gonna be able to do multitasking
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better than older generation
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education focused chromebooks this one
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comes with 64 gigs of storage there's a
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version available with 128 gigs of
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storage
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it's paired up with four gigs of ram and
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so let's talk real quick too about the
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outside portion you have a usb type a
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which is very nice
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uh so if you have any dongles or
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anything you need to plug in there
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that's awesome
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and then you got a usb type c on both
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sides it's going to do all the stuff usb
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type c does
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and micro sd card slot in case you have
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files that need to be saved and
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transferred
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headphone microphone jack so utilitarian
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that's what this thing is
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it's just enough to get the job done
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it's like a pixel 4a approach to a
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chromebook
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there's nothing striking about it
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there's nothing nothing amazing about it
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but i think it's gonna do the job i
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think it's gonna be a device that for a
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lot of students
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just does enough to get by to get you
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through school work
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to take care of those assignments to get
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