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hey folks Robbie Payne with chrome unbox
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coming at you today with a full review
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of the Samsung Chromebook Pro perhaps
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the most anticipated Chromebook ever
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this device is deserving of all the hype
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an interesting aspect ratio at 3x2 pen
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input quality build this device is
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impressive on a lot of fronts and we
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want to show you why the Samsung Chrome
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Book Pro will be available in April for
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$549 just $100 more than the arm
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powerered Chromebook plus it's thin
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light attractive and made all of
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aluminum with completely rounded edges
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the device feels much thinner than it
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actually is sat right next to the
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straight cut Asus flip you'd be forgiven
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for thinking Samsung's offering was
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actually thinner it isn't really but
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perception and feel go a long way when
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it comes to devices we predominantly
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interact with from a touch and sight
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point of view if it looks and feels
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lighter it kind of is we'll talk about
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this throughout the review but the
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choice to go with a 3x2 aspect ratio
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paints many of the design choices going
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on here mainly because of the box of
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your screen there's plenty of room for a
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large trackpad and spacious keyboard
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despite the diminutive 12.3 in size 3x2
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also gives you more Square in of real
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estate versus 16x9 so the screen simply
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feels more spacious as well hinges are
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firm here and the convertible setups are
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sturdy and work well and the overall
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aesthetic is clean and free from
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unsightly ports and vents across the
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bottom are just screws feet and speaker
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ports for being so thin at 055 in and so
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light at 2.38 lb the build feels quite
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sturdy not giving much bow or Flex when
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pressure is applied to either half of
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the device my only gripe is a slight
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Flex in the middle of the keyboard but I
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had to put some real pressure there to
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notice it and it was never apparent in
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normal day-to-day use port selection is
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limited similar to the Asus flip giving
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users access to two USBC ports a
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headphone microphone Jack micro SD card
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slot and the already famous pen we'll
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talk more about the pen in a few minutes
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this port layout will likely become
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pretty familiar in the Chromebook Market
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given that USBC is just so good at
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everything the days are coming sooner
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than later when we'll live in a fully
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USBC world but we aren't quite there yet
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adapters and dongles will be in play for
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the short term to get things like
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external displays going luckily USBC
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docking ports from Samsung and Asus do
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the job just fine and work with
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Chromebooks exactly as you'd expect the
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downward firing speakers are fair but
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not great few laptop speakers are but
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these do a decent job of projecting
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sound in any layout almost seeming to
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allow some sound to radiate up through
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the keyboard as well even when covered
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up completely sound still comes out loud
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and clear the display is probably the
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shining star for the Chromebook Pro and
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plus and it's insane 2400 x600 pixels
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across 12.3 in makes for 235 pixels per
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inch and razor sharp everything Chrome
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OS has been scaling like this since the
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pixel basically rendering everything at
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a 200% clip so out of the box your
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resolution is actually set to 12200 by
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800 and the scaling is just fantastic
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with this setup everything's a bit
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larger and more touch friendly than
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anything I've used up to this point from
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a Chromebook perspective this thing is
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made for touch enabled Android apps and
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I'd be remiss not to mention the crazy
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brightness here as well 400 nits that's
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brighter than any MacBook up into the
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very latest version and as bright as
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both pixels no environment will give
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this thing any issues regardless of the
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glossy screen viewing angles are superb
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as well colors pop and the bezels are
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nice and small minus that bottom one I'm
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guessing with convertibles this is where
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lots of the tech hides almost every
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convertible has a large bottom bezel I'd
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love for that to eventually go away
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still I can't say enough about how good
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this screen is it simply makes me want
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to use the Samsung Chromebook Pro for
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just about anything that I can moving on
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to input devices like the keyboard
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trackpad and Pen not everything is
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perfect granted the things I have to say
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about the input methods aren't exactly a
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knock against the device they are
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however deserving a few comments and
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your consideration if you're thinking
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about buying this thing the keyboard
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well it's a bit odd due to the 3x2
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aspect ratio in the more Square screen
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and device shape the keyboard is
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actually laid out a bit different
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basically take a full-size keyboard and
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shave off about half the width of the
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keys on both the left and right side and
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you can imagine what we're dealing with
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here everything is where it should be
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but those outer Keys take some getting
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used to the margin for error is just
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simply smaller after a few days I didn't
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have much issue at all the travels feel
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good and clickiness feels great
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Additionally the keys are subtly cued to
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hug your fingers and typing actually
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feels really great there is no
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backlighting much to the disappointment
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of many of you and there's no indication
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this will change down the road so if
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that's a deal breaker I'm afraid this
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device probably won't cut it for you for
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me it's a small emission so I wasn't
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really that concerned about it the
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trackpad is fantastic I've looked pretty
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hard at it and I'm under the impression
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that it is glass oil resistance is great
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and the surface stays smooth for long
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long periods of time the click mechanism
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Nails it as well delivering the best
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trackpad performance I could possibly
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ask for multi-finger gestures work just
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as expected responding each and every
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time I called on them finally there's
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the pen utilizing wome's EMR Tech the
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Chromebook Pro and plus both put all the
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magic in the screen and what this means
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for you is that the pen needs no battery
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and is relatively inexpensive to replace
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because it's smaller size it can be
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stowed inside the device giving the pen
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a simple easy place to live when not in
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use when put to use the experience is
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still a bit of a mix bag Google keep
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does well with responsiveness but I had
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a better time taking notes in Microsoft
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One Note because of the lined paper
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option overall the pen is very precise
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but if it's moving too quickly the
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perceived lag is still a bit offputting
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Google is touting that Chrome OS is
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utilizing machine learning algorithms to
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actually detect where your pen is headed
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next to reduce lag we'll withhold full
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judgment on that as the device that we
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are reviewing is locked to the beta
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Channel as this thing begins to ship out
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everything's moving along in stable
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Channel perhaps this will actually
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behave a little better when pulling the
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pen out of its slot a small icon appears
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and then docking notifications giving
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users a few cool tricks with the stylus
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that include a screen capture screen
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region capture laser pointer magnifier
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and just to create a new note one of the
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really useful options is taking a screen
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grab and immediately beginning to
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annotate that pick and Google keep it's
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really coming very handy for me as time
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goes on I'd expect these options to
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expand internally we're met with the
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core M3 processor paired up with 4 gigs
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of RAM and 32 gigs of internal storage
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and while that's plenty for a Chromebook
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and the thing gets around just fine we
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have to consider the fact that this
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thing is pushing a ton of pixels with
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this beautiful display and so from time
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to time that causes a bit of lag here
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and there don't let that alarm you and
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likely eventually as Chrome OS continues
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to get updated most of that lag is
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likely to
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disappear battery life has been really
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good as well delivering 8 to 9 hours of
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use on a charge sure if you crank the
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screen up to 100% the battery does take
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a hit but the great thing about this
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screen is the fact that you really only
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need about 50 to 60% brightness in most
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environments to feel plenty satisfied
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while using it the new Samsung
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Chromebooks are built from the ground up
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with Android apps in mind we just saw
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chromeos 56 launch this week along with
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Play Store access on stable channel for
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some newer devices which other devices
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will get the Play Store and the stable
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Channel at this point is unclear but
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Samsung has made it very clear the
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Android app support is at the heart of
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this device and apps on the stable
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channel are basically guaranteed at
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launch with that in mind I'll say that
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the Android experience is a bit better
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on this device than others mainly due to
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the Fantastic screen it's 3x2 layout and
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the device is De weight there's still
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work to be done for sure and until we
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see Android nougat its resizable apps I
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don't think the whole experience is
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going to come out of that beta feel it
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works but there are nagging issues here
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and there that still make Android apps
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feel not quite finished running Android
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apps will get much better over the next
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few months as we're now moving into the
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refinement period of the Play Store and
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I think Samsung has a Clear Vision of
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this device being the absolute best at
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this very thing with the screen weight
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size and pin I think that could very
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well be the case a few months from now
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so all in all this isn't a perfect
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offering from Samsung and no device
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really is but what they've done here is
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get certain parts right and they've
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gotten them so right that it makes this
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device something you want to pick up
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something you desire to use on a daily
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basis I've got a couple Chrome books and
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boxes and stuff around the house and
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every time I wanted to use a device I
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wanted to use the Samsung and perhaps it
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was the mesmerizing display which is
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amazing or perhaps it was being able to
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have the pen when I needed it or the
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convertible form factor that was thin
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and light enough to feel like a tablet
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I'm not sure but the combination of
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really good stuff that Samsung got right
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they got so right that it makes me want
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to use this device more than any other
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device that I have and I think in the
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end that's the win I don't think you
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have to get everything perfect in order
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for it all to work you just have to get
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the right stuff really really right and
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Samsung has done so with this device
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