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everyone loves a good comparison video
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right we compare cars before we buy and
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we compare groceries we compare gadgets
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we just like seeing one thing next to
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another we like before and after it's
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just human nature in general and in
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preparing for this review of the Samsung
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Chromebook plus v2 it was my nature and
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my habit to compare it I wanted to
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compare it to the first version of the
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Samsung Chromebook plus and honestly
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that just didn't do anyone justice and I
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don't think it would have helped you all
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out as viewers and ultimately we want to
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help you make a purchasing decision
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based on the price of a device and the
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things it brings to the table and to sit
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and look at it versus its predecessor
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just really didn't seem fair now we'll
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do a video of that at some point down
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the road we're gonna get these two
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side-by-side and really look at the
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difference in the two of them but
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ultimately if you walk into a store and
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you come across this device you're gonna
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look at it and say is it worth the money
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is it worth me purchasing this device
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and so we want to review the thing just
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like any other Chromebook we've reviewed
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we want to look at all the things that
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from the build the screen the the
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speakers the way performs and all those
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kind of things and at the end say is it
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worth the money should you buy it and so
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it took us a little longer than normal
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to do this review and that's kind of the
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reason we wanted to compare it but this
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isn't going to be that video so let's
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dive in and look at a review of the
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Samsung Chromebook plus v2 let's start
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off with the build overall this thing is
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well put together it's got nice rounded
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edges and it just feels good in the hand
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and is overall really solid feeling
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there's a little bit of flex if you
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really wrench on it but in general it
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feels pretty good and and for
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Chromebooks in this price range
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I think Samsung did a good job putting
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it together now you will notice there's
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a plastic bottom and that's not that odd
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honestly there's quite a few of
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Chromebooks even in higher price
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brackets the HP Chromebook 13 comes to
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mind the newer Acer Chromebook 15 both
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have plastic bottoms and for me that's
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just never been a troubling thing it
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saves a little bit of weight and on this
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one it's hard to even tell that it's not
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aluminum like the rest of the chassis
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overall the color of the device is
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really cool it's a little bit of a
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unique take on the powder of aluminum
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it's a little bit darker more akin to
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what you see on some of the the new
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MacBook Pros and stuff like that the
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Space Gray but it's just an overall
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great color the device just looks really
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really good
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the one thing I have a little bit of
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issue with on the build quality of this
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thing is it is a convertible and so a
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lot of times convertibles can have a
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little bit of trouble with the way that
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they're weighted and this one in
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particular the screen is just a little
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bit heavy it's not that troublesome when
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it's on the desk but when it's in your
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lap you're gonna feel it it's not
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tipping over or falling over anything
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like that and the hinge is pretty sturdy
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so when you're touching on the screen
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that's not really an issue either it
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just it just feels a little weird
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usually the bottom end of the device is
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a little heavier than the screen and
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that's not exactly the case here so
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let's talk about the screen this one is
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a 16 by 10 screen which is slightly rare
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actually in the Chrome OS world we have
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a growing number of three by two panels
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and a lot of sixteen by nine panels so
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this one comes kind of in between the
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two so if you're not a fan of the taller
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three by two like that's in a pixel book
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of the HP Chromebook x2 or the Samsung
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Chromebook plus or pro that come before
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this one 16 by 10 is kind of a nice
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trade-off because it's not quite as
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letterbox as a 16 by 9 but it's not
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quite as tall as a 3 by 2 and the
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resolution we get here is kind of HD
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plus a few pixels so standard HD at 16
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by 9 is 1920 by 1080 this one is 1920 by
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1200 so those extra pixels coming across
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the bottom and give you that slightly
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taller screen and so this is kind of
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what you see on a MacBook Pro or a
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MacBook they they really like that 16 by
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10 ratio and it gives you a little more
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bang for your buck because there's a 12
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point 2 inch screen that slightly taller
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aspect ratio makes it feel like a little
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bit bigger screen it kind of feels and
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performs more like a 13-inch kind of
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device here ultimately it's bright
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enough around 300 nits it's not quite as
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bright as the panel you get on the the
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x2 and the pixel book stuff like that
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those are 400 nits panels but it's 3 to
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350 I think somewhere in there and
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honestly day to day use it was just fine
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it would probably struggle a little bit
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outside under direct sunlight but but
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under normal lighting situations at a
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coffee shop in an office near a window
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all those kind of things it does just
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fine and the same can be said about the
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pixel density so sure
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not this 2400 by 1600 super pixel dense
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panel that you get on the pixel book but
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it's still a high def screen and
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ultimately because 12.2 inches crams a
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ton of pixels in when we're talking
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about 1920 by 1200 resolution you don't
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see pixels everything still looks really
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sharp so the benefit you have here is
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that you get a little bit of a bump in
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performance because it doesn't have to
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push all of those pixels on the screens
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the keyboard and trackpad on this device
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are actually stand out I have not used
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too many Chromebooks that I've enjoyed
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the keyboard quite as much as this
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device and I'm not a huge stickler on
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keyboards it doesn't have a backlight I
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know for some of you all that's that's a
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deal-breaker but for me it's not and
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overall just the the click enos of the
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keys that travel and just the overall
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experience of using the keyboard in
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general for me was just fantastic and
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second only to the pixel book honestly
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the same could be said of the trackpad I
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don't know exactly what it's made of but
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it resists oils the click mechanism is
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great it's quiet but it works really
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really well it feels firm enough but not
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super smooshy it just performs really
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really well all the gestures you'd
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expect to use swiping up and down to
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finger gestures all that stuff works
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exactly like you would expect but it's
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just consistent and it feels really good
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to use on to the input methods you get a
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pretty interesting mix of things here so
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we got 2 USB type C's and a USB type a
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and so I'm a big fan of still seeing
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this the USB see hasn't really gotten to
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the point we all expected it to by this
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point we kind of thought like this would
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be the one connector to kill everything
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and it will just do everything and
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honestly it has the potential to do so
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it's just we don't have all the
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accessories that work with it just yet
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and even the ones that are supposed to
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work with it don't always work the way
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you expect them to and so it's very nice
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to see a fallback USB a on a device
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that's coming out in 2018 honestly and I
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know every device won't have this but
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it's just nice to have one problem they
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did with this particular device though
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is they put both USB C's on the same
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side and to me that's a huge fail
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because ultimately when you're gonna use
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the USB sees a lot of times you're gonna
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use them with some sort of docking
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mechanism and so if I'm sitting this
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down on my desk and then I'm gonna plug
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a USB C dock into it maybe I don't have
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a dock I've got one USB C for my display
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and I've got one USB C for my charging
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it'd be nice to just have them
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on opposite sides of the device so that
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may be one scenario it's easier to plug
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them in over here and in another
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scenario it's easier over here you don't
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get that option here you're going to the
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left side of the device whether you like
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it or not if you're using USB C and so
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every other device we've seen for the
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most part other than the HP 13 that I
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can think of off the top of my head
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heads has the USB C's on both sides so
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that you kind of get some flexibility
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and Samsung throw them both on one side
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in addition there's a standard micro SD
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card slot and there's no weird fumbly
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hinges or anything trying to cover it up
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one of the things we don't usually
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mention in Chromebook reviews is the
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camera and this particular device the
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front-facing camera is not really that
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big of a deal but the world facing
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camera that is actually on the keyboard
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deck is kind of a big deal and it's one
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of the first ones that we've had like
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this in a Chromebook it's a 13 megapixel
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autofocus camera now the problem is
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right now we don't have anything to show
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you with it because this device is still
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running software that has the old Chrome
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OS camera on it that is absolutely
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terrible and not even worth using
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however we do know that the substitute
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for that is coming via the arc camera so
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the the Google camera that you see on
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Google's phones will be on Chromebooks
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it will make this camera actually worth
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using though in general speakers on
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Chromebooks or laptops aren't that great
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the speakers on this one are
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surprisingly good they are downward
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firing so they're not in the best
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position ever but they're pretty rich
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sounding they're not the loudest things
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I've ever heard my pixel book gets
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louder but it's kind of harsh and a
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little bit tinny this one has a nice
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kind of full sound to it that I really
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appreciate the the thing that comes
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closest to mind when I'm comparing
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speakers like this is the iPad a lot of
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times I'll listen to something on an
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iPad and think man I a police ride a few
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years back they just kind of fix the
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speakers on iPads and iPads just always
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sound good the speaker's always sound
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way fuller and way bigger than they
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should for a smaller device and
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Samsung's kind of done that here so I
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don't know whether it's the chambers or
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the speakers or a combination the
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speaker's actually sound really good
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here and we can't forget to talk about
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the pen so Samsung was the first to
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bring kind of this stowable pin to a
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Chromebook and you know they've done the
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same thing here so the last three
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Chromebooks now that they've made had
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the stowable pen it's a little bit
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different this go-round it just kind of
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you grab it and slide
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just out of the click mechanism but the
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stowing is a little bit different the
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shape at the top of the Pens a little
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bit different but overall we're talking
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the same inking experience here things
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like Google keep work but not that well
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but then when you get into something
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like squid the inking feels really great
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Samsung's done a great job of figuring
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out how to make pen tips and screens
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that go together really well and just
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feel really natural when you're writing
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the one thing to remember here we're
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dealing with an EMR stylist I know a lot
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of artists really like that better and
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so you you are getting an EMR stylist
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here however it's smaller so it's not
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going to be a full-size pen feel like
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you would get with the pixel book or the
9:46
HP it is that smaller kind of standard
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Samsung size stylus so there are pros
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and cons here I still favor the smaller
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stylus that I can put in the device and
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take it with me and not have to worry
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about whether or not I have my stylus
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with me but that's just my preference
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for most people I think having it with
10:03
you is more important than whether its
10:05
large or small and so I think Samsung's
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done a good job here of continuing to
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make room for the stylus and not making
10:11
you toted around separately so we've
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talked about all the outside components
10:14
how's this thing actually get along well
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inside we have an Intel Celeron 39 65 Y
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4 gigs of ram 32 gigs that emmc storage
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so what does that mean exactly well if
10:26
you like benchmarks octane gets about
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14,000 on this thing and speedometers
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around 75 to 77 somewhere in that range
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and so what that means for me is if I'm
10:35
looking at those benchmark scores this
10:37
thing has enough performance under the
10:38
hood to kind of get out of your way so
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that the general users probably not
10:42
going to be thinking about performance
10:43
that often and that's kind of where we
10:45
want to get with Chromebooks in general
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sure it's nice to have the ones that
10:48
just get bonkers octane scores and
10:52
speedometer scores and never ever have a
10:54
hiccup and never think about anything
10:55
but that stuff costs money and in
10:58
general Intel is making chips all over
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the place I couldn't even tell you where
11:02
the 39 65 Y slots itself what generation
11:05
and all that kind of stuff I don't know
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anymore because they've convoluted their
11:09
naming scheme so bad what I can tell you
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is from day to day use this thing
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actually gets along really really well
11:14
now I put it through the same paces I
11:16
put everything else through I run
11:18
everything that I normally would run
11:19
graphics programs IDE s multiple tabs
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open music players all that kind of
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stuff
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of split screens all of that stuff and
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really never had any performance issues
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in general and it does so with decent
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battery life we're talking seven to ten
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hours and I know that's a decent range
11:33
there but seven to ten hours of mixed
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use if you're going at it pretty hard
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and have a lot of stuff open you're
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probably going to get closer to that
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seven hour range but you know you have a
11:41
couple tabs open you're browsing the
11:43
internet you're probably 9 to 10 hours
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somewhere in that range so the question
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we always arrive at at this point in the
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video is should you buy this a couple
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things to consider Samsung wants $499
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for this thing retail we were able to
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pick this one up for $450 retail and I
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think that's getting closer to the
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realistic price range for this device
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not comparing it to a bunch of other
12:04
things just saying okay what is this
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thing worth I think if we get down into
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the 425 to 399 somewhere in there I
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think we get to the point where this
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becomes an easy buy this becomes a
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device that when you've spent that
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amount of money you're gonna be really
12:18
happy with the result you're gonna be
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happy with the performance you can be
12:20
happy with the screen and that you got a
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pin and it's convertible and it does all
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of these things really well for some
12:26
reason $500 for me feels a little steep
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however there's not a ton of Chromebooks
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in the $500 price bracket at the time of
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filming right now I mean we're literally
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talking probably about the ACC 302s
12:37
about the only other thing in this price
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bracket or the older version of this and
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like I said we're not going to get into
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comparing it to its predecessor but in
12:45
general as a daily driver a device that
12:48
you can use I would say over those two
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devices that are in that price bracket I
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like this one better I would be happier
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with this one than those two devices if
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samsung brings this device down or Best
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Buy or whoever you're buying this device
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from gets it down to that 450 425 range
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100% I'd say I think you're gonna be
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really really happy with this device if
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you're coming across it at $500 I'm just
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not sure I'm not sure what I would feel
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if I spent that kind of money on this
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device and so at the end of the day
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hopefully that helps you a little bit
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make a purchasing decision and there's a
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good chance that by the time you're
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watching this video this thing will be
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down in that price range and at that
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point again I would say go for it I
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think it's a good buy at that price it
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brings a lot to the table it brings a
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really really good screen an excellent
13:30
keyboard an excellent trackpad a
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built-in stowable stylus really good
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speakers I mean when we start laying on
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all those stats out on the tape
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and good performance and battery life by
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the way then you know $450 isn't really
13:42
that much to pay for a computer now is
13:44
it oh and it runs Android apps and it'll
13:46
have Linux apps too pretty soon so it
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sounds like a really compelling case
13:50
when we start talking about all of those
13:51
things together and I think Samsung has
13:53
done a really good job here and a lot of
13:55
people are really getting bent out of
13:56
shape comparing it to other things but
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if we look at it by itself with we look
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at it on its own merits I think
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Samsung's put together a really nice
14:04
package and I think it's one that you'd
14:05
be pretty happy with if you can get it
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for around $450 or less but guys that's
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