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hey folks Robbie pay with chrome unbox
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coming at you today with a side by-side
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comparison of the production Samsung
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Chromebook Pro and the Samsung
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Chromebook plus we wanted to come back
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and do a video like this now that the
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Chromebook Pro is actually in production
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if you guys remember a few months back
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we did a video similar to this with the
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two side by side but that Samsung
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Chromebook Pro had all kinds of problems
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going on there were lots of hits and
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misses and it was one that wasn't even
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ready for production and it was actually
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months out now that we know here in June
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uh exactly what the timeline was on the
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Samsung Chromebook Pro so we wanted to
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revisit these two devices because a lot
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of you have expressed a issue with Intel
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and their chipset in Chromebooks and
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wondering how they would work with
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Android apps wondering if the $100 price
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differential was actually worth your
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money so we want to take a look and Hope
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hopefully get to the bottom of
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that all right guys so we've gotten a
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lot of questions about the differences
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between the plus and the pro as the pro
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going to be able to effectively run
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Android apps there was an article
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released a few weeks back that
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highlighted some of the shortcomings of
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Intel processors with Android apps I'm
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going to go ahead and spoil some of this
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for you this device is faster pretty
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much in every way shape and form it's
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not to say the plus is not good or it
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doesn't uh handle itself pretty well but
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for overall tasks this thing's faster at
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pretty much everything and we're going
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to show you some of that kind of stuff
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here today but we're going to do a
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handful of things um based on some of
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the questions and feedback we've gotten
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we're just going to launch a few Android
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apps side by side launch them at the
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same time so I can show you how quick
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they load between the two and for a
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quick refresher before I move on um
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Samsung Chromebook plus is uh the op1
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processor which is a rock chip 3399 they
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both have the same amount of ram 4 gigs
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32 gigs of internal storage all the
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other Hardware is basically the exact
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same just a different chip over here
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we've got the Sixth Gen Skylake core M3
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processor so that's that's the
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difference between the two um we're
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going to we're going to launch Android
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apps we are going to look at the
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performance of a few Android apps side
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by side um in the same graphic mode
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we're going to load uh a large document
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in try a couple things like uh U word
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search in there how long it takes to
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open how long it takes to get to editing
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so we've had a few very specific
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questions about that kind of stuff too
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and then lastly we're just going to put
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the the device is under pretty heavy
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load so we're going to open up 10 15
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tabs uh get some stuff running and see
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uh how they how they Faire so hopefully
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that gives you kind of a round view of
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what it's like to use both of these
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devices obviously everyone's use case is
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different when it comes to Android apps
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we're talking millions of Android apps
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that are available it's impossible for
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us to test all of them but we wanted to
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test a handful of different games and
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things like that that are going to push
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these uh graphically just a little bit
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more so with all that said let's begin
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so I'm going to just start launching
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Android app so here's the Play Store and
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as you can see everything's closed so
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we're we're cleared out here we're going
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to go play store same
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time come on buddy there it comes okay
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and honestly you're going to see this a
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lot where this one is going to load a
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lot of stuff faster so here's
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squid and we'll just open a note
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uh that one's the
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same so again I'm not saying that this
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thing doesn't load fast enough I'm just
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trying to show you that this one in most
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respects is going to run stuff a little
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bit quicker um let's load up something a
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little more intensive now Facebook
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Messenger um that was one of the apps
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that uh supposedly won't work well uh
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granted you have 7.1.1 over here so we
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have windowed apps um we can go full
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screen like that so let's actually
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restart it and we'll do that one again
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just so you can see
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it not too much faster there another one
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that early on when we attempted to um
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Run apps alto's Adventure was
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laggy again we'll do full screen so this
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is
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fair
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pretty similar so
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far basically I want to see how quick we
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can get into actually playing the
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game and we're going to talk about
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Android apps actually running here in
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just a minute
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so stop
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jumping here we go all right uh let's do
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one
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more uh how about Google Earth that
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would
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work so Google
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Earth once again we got to force this
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one full screen to be fair we'll let
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both load in
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I haven't used Earth on here
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yet and I think we were somewhere in the
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neighborhood of Chicago
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so and here's
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Earth not too much faster so pretty
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close there so what you're seeing um
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across launching Android apps as far as
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opening them up this one is a step
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faster roughly a second at best um and
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that's about it so is that worth a $100
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upgrade probably not um I wouldn't think
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um that's completely up to you and how
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quickly you like stuff to load so now
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let's actually look at um the
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performance of a couple of these things
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between so I'm going to open up Earth
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again on both of these and we're going
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to look at how well things actually
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render and how smooth stuff is when
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things get a little more intense so
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we're going to load downtown
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Chicago and as you can tell I mean this
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is the way Google Earth Works It Takes a
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Minute everything looks like Play-Doh at
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first as it's kind of loading things in
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so we'll we'll let these kind of get
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rendered and see as as more Graphics
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earning you kind of see some frame rate
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drops over here obviously now that we've
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got all these textures and stuff
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rendering but overall
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um the the responsiveness is still
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pretty smooth we can tilt pretty
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easily pretty decent frame rate drops
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here but it's still moving around we've
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rendered in similarly over here um frame
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rates are staying up much higher here
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things are staying much
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smoother uh let's pinch and zoom in and
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out and then also
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rotate
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and by the way Google Earth is just so
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much fun and so uh hopefully you're
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picking this up on camera we're getting
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some pretty good stutters as things turn
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and again this is a lot we're rendering
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a lot of stuff here um so I'm not trying
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to say that this is easy stuff but most
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of our phones can render Google Earth
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really really well it's the same app um
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I'm actually seeing a lot smoother
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performance over here um obviously
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because in general Intel's graphic
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performance is going to outweigh um arm
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at this particular Point um I can show
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you
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um opening up stuff with Squid for
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instance um and I'm going to cheat and
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use just one pen on both um writing is
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really really good so
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um basically no lag um in the pin on
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either of these devices so if if you're
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concerned mainly with the PIN input
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being able to take notes and all that
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kind of stuff uh no real issues exist
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with that um pinching and zooming Works
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uh just fine and so smaller apps ones
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that aren't nearly as graphically
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intensive uh seem to Faire a little bit
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better when it comes to
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um when it comes to these devices so
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we're going to go back into alto's
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Adventure real quick and again early on
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when we did this review uh the side by
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side this one actually struggled quite a
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bit the pro did um it was dropping frame
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rates a lot what was fun funny is during
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our review period it was real bad by the
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time uh the weeks had passed a couple
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weeks had passed and we were actually
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sitting down to film the review I wanted
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to show like wow look at how much better
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arm is doing than the Intel processors
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and by that time it had already cleaned
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up a little bit um to the point now
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where I'm going to start these at the
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same time so you can kind of see both of
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them go oops I
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didn't close enough so you can kind of
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just see the frame rates this is going
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to be difficult I'll probably crash
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really quickly trying to do this on two
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SC yep already crashed over here um but
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both of them run this game perfectly
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smooth no frame rates no stutters no lag
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no issue whatsoever so you can see it's
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almost dependent on the game it seems um
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on whether or not the the device can run
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it well or not but the important thing
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to note here is things open a little
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faster here that is true performance
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overall seems to be pretty comparable
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between the two when we're talking about
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Android apps um
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but it's really important to think
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through when you're talking about uh
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gaming when you're talking about um
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things working across the board a few
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weeks back maybe a month or two back we
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all pretty much thought intel was going
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to lag behind arm for a while on this
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arm even put out of paper saying hey
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look at all these Android apps that have
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poor performance and unusable
10:21
performance I've gone through that list
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I've tried every app um the only one
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that I found that doesn't work the way
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it's supposed to is mortal Combat X was
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on that um and I wouldn't have installed
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that for any reason other than that list
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and the colors are all distorted it is
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unusable over here at the time but
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everything else on that list that they
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that they outlined this device runs
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perfectly well so if Android apps are
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the consideration or maybe the thing
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that are causing you to not be sure
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about the pro I would say don't worry
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about that at all if Android apps or
10:53
what are drawing you to this and you're
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saying that's really what I'm going to
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use it for I don't necessarily think the
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upgrade is necessary so um we're we're
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still kind of tied here so now we're
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going to get into actual Chromebook
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function so stuff that Chromebooks do in
11:08
general and so um we're actually going
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to open up um a large document okay
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so let's go
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into Joe I'm cutting I'm holding real
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quick okay now we're
11:32
moving so we're going to open up uh
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Google Drive and actually get into a
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document with over 5,000 words and so we
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had one of our readers uh send us um
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just a kind of a dummy document um in
11:46
order to test a couple things come
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on so let me get in here okay so we're
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going to open these side by side so you
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can kind of see
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them
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as they
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open still loading in
12:14
here still loading in and we're done
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okay so you can see there's a
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considerable difference if you're going
12:20
to be working with large documents
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likely we'll do that one more time so
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you can see the see the difference here
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we'll actually click the mouse this
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time so over here and we're just waiting
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for the whole thing to load in
12:44
done done over here okay um and so
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that time frame there if you're working
12:51
with five or six of these documents
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obviously becomes a thing um and becomes
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something you want to actually consider
12:58
if you're going to be working from these
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Chromebooks so time to edit I'm just
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going to keep typing boom I've already
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been able to type
13:06
here still not editing yet now we're
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typing over here so again um 3 to 4
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seconds difference every time you open a
13:15
document and go to move around so we're
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going to do find in
13:20
document
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um so new L
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VII
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not
13:33
bad but you can see there was no
13:35
stuttering or lagging over here as I
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searched for a term it just immediately
13:39
found it and it pulled it up and so
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um again not unusable over here uh but
13:47
everything's going to be a little bit
13:48
slower it's going to be a little bit of
13:49
a step behind over here and I don't
13:51
think this should come as a surprise to
13:53
anyone basic Chrome OS functions have
13:56
worked better on Intel chipsets for some
13:59
time so arm has some work to do uh when
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it comes to comes to some of that kind
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of stuff so lastly what I want to do is
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actually put these things under some
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stress so I'm just going to start
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opening uh web
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pages
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um
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and already we're starting to we're kind
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of getting the freeze here now we're
14:47
moving uh but things have gotten really
14:53
unresponsive so it's it's getting tough
14:55
to navigate certain
14:57
things
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Twitter's moving
15:03
okay
15:04
Facebook so we're seeing some
15:07
significant lag here we have 1 2 3 4 5 6
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7 nine tabs open I'm going to open those
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exact same tabs over here
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so and
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Gadget
15:50
okay and you can see as I was typing in
15:52
doing those like the stuff's all loaded
15:53
in everything's still nice and smooth
15:55
over here um sure liable rumors send me
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notifications go+ dropping a well no not
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smoothed out let's say it was drop in a
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frame rate there a little bit right at
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the
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beginning YouTube looking good and we're
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going to start a video here in just a
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second on both of
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them one boxed and we still got our
16:20
drive loaded in and you can see where
16:22
the performance hit starting to take its
16:24
toll a little bit uh drive as a web app
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is is usually pretty hairy
16:31
um okay so we'll do the same kind of
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look around
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here getting there but struggling a
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little bit chroman box is moving
16:50
okay not too
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bad and three finger swipe across the
16:57
top is struggling pretty bad on this one
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uh but scrolling in the
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pages not terrible so let's keep moving
17:07
all right I've went ahead and loaded in
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a handful more stuff so we have some
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Android apps open now we got some multi-
17:13
window stuff going on uh Google play
17:15
music we got Hangouts got the Play Store
17:18
open we got an IDE editor shift edit
17:21
I've got keep notes open on both and so
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let's see how we're still fairing as
17:27
browsing things still look pretty
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smooth
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good
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good okay come over
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here so loaded in websites seem to be
17:43
doing okay now when I was trying to load
17:45
a bunch obviously on here at one time it
17:49
struggled a little bit but if you're
17:50
just opening one thing at a time you can
17:52
kind of see we're dropping some frame
17:53
rates a little
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bit
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um so uh performance obviously is it's
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winning over there this is this is
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struggling pretty
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good that's doing okay so we'll check
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out when we do a three-finger swipe you
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kind of get basically two animation here
18:13
over here things are staying relatively
18:15
smooth It's Not Butter it's not perfect
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over here uh but more usable if you're
18:20
bouncing in and out of multiple
18:22
applications
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um and again the plus isn't stopping or
18:29
locking up or dying here and neither is
18:31
the pro even though some some early
18:33
reports went out that um universally
18:36
this thing had a bug that if you had 12
18:38
apps or 12 things going it would lock up
18:40
and freeze and die I've not experienced
18:42
that one time with this um actually
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doesn't seem to be the case at all so
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guys in a nutshell um is this worth $100
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more uh for me personally if I'm ask
18:52
that question I would say yes I've been
18:54
taking this thing home running Android
18:56
apps on it playing games looking up
18:58
stuff doing basic browsing but then able
18:59
to bring it in drop another monitor on
19:02
it get all my work done have multiple
19:03
tabs running editing websites doing all
19:06
sorts of stuff and this thing had no
19:07
issue uh I did attempt to work for a
19:10
couple days uh on the plus and honestly
19:12
it was just it was too slow um and and I
19:15
was running into too many issues where
19:17
stuff would just Freeze and stop because
19:19
I was asking a lot of it and my general
19:21
work maybe is an indicative of of normal
19:24
use case if you're going to use this
19:25
thing just sitting on a couch uh maybe
19:27
playing a movie every once in a while
19:29
absolutely this thing runs great uh the
19:31
Android apps run pretty well on here and
19:33
they probably just going to get better
19:34
as things get cleaned up even
19:36
more if you're going to use it as a dual
19:38
device and you're going to use it as
19:39
something you're going to actually take
19:41
and want to get some work done with
19:42
documents and and uh heavier uh use of
19:45
tabs and and and more web applications
19:47
and that kind of stuff maybe some image
19:49
editing uh which I I just could not get
19:51
done on here with something like gravit
19:53
designer um on here uh it works really
19:56
well again I've been using this for over
19:58
a week now every single day at work as
20:00
my daily driver and it has been
20:02
fantastic so depending on your use case
20:05
it's worth the extra $100 if you're just
20:08
going to be using it for browsing and
20:10
some general stuff I don't know that
20:12
it's necessarily worth it and and
20:13
they're hard to get right now eventually
20:15
that won't be the case either so
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hopefully guys this has helped you all
20:19
in making a decision on which one of
20:21
these things that you want to buy
20:22
whether you want to wait and try to get
20:23
this thing and spend a little more money
20:25
or go down to your local best buyer or
20:26
whatever and pick one of these up right
20:27
now
20:28
um hopefully this has made that a little
20:30
bit clearer for you guys uh if you like
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the video guys give it a thumbs up uh
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hit subscribe down below I've left links
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to both of these uh devices on Amazon
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where you can find them like I said this
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is going to become available probably in
20:42
the next week we'll see some of that
20:44
bottleneck going away so it's kind of up
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to you all and your use case to see
20:48
which one that you would rather have uh
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which one you would rather spend your
20:51
money on but guys until next time thanks
20:53
for watching we'll see
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you
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