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all right so the day is here and I I
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don't even want to say finally here
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because uh the entire roll out of this
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Chromebook and the the new duet from
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Lenovo have been really quick for
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Chromebook standards but we have the
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Samsung Galaxy Chromebook plus here in
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the office we got to use it for just a
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few minutes here and there uh up in New
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York at the Chromebook showcase but it's
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here in the office uh we're ready to
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unbox it and begin the review process
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I'm super excited uh to to dig in a
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little bit deeper on this Chromebook so
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let's get in the
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box but before we get into all that um I
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wanted to extend a a quick invitation to
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just a community of people uh that are
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really cool to be around so if you're
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interested at all in something like that
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uh head over to ranb box.com
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jooin and you can learn more and get
1:34
started all right so I don't want to
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stand in the way of getting into this
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box at all I will say you know we we
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have a video out uh of our time with
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this thing in New York but at any of
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those shows whether it's CES or any kind
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of Hardware event I don't know it's hard
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to get a a firm grasp on how good a
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device really is when it's I don't know
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at at an event when there's there's just
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a different energy it's hard to explain
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um and so I I've been just eagerly
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anticipating this device getting in here
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and what's funny is for this device
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instead of it just being about usually
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it's just about I I want to use it um
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that's I mean the whole reason we're all
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here and what we're doing at Chrome and
2:13
box is just cuz I I like Chromebooks and
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I like getting my hands on new hardware
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but this one's equally about um being
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able to report like what it is like to
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use this Chromebook cuz we're we're just
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we're really excited about this one um
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for Samsung to kind of be back into this
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it it takes us back to um 2020 preco is
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what this takes us back to uh right
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before Co hit we unboxed the the first
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Samsung Galaxy Chromebook and that video
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has tons of views and a lot of people
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were interested in it for good reason uh
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it was it was something special and ever
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since then it's like Samsung has kind of
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dropped off uh slowly but surely every
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Chromebook they released was a little
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bit more secure a little bit more safe a
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little bit more uh you
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know not pushing boundaries as much as
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they once were and so uh a little more
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reserved and we just all kept waiting
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for them to get back to something like
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this uh and so this is the Samsung
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Galaxy Chromebook plus and so let's
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let's just get in here um again if
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you've watched the video prior it's not
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like you don't know what's in the box
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but um again being able to handle it and
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have it you know outside of that that
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environment is kind of cool so let's see
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got a cool little flap here again I
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appreciate a uh an interesting box so
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there's some different little things
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here uh but you know it still looks very
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recyclable cuz at the end of the day
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you're going to probably not keep the
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Box um so something that recycles easy
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is very good um yeah I remember this so
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the the charger is basically just it
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feels more like a phone charger it's
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kind of a block and a cable so this
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feels very phone esque here doesn't it
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having a little slim thing with your
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your charging cord in it USBC charging
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cable some paperwork uh that's it there
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then here's your charging block
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and
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it
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well um we had an email that said that a
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handful of people apparently we're one
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of them uh got the uh European version
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so yeah if if you're watching this
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you're in the States this isn't what
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they're going to send you if I remember
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correctly seeing it uh in New York I
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feel like the brick was like about that
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big uh but you know just standard USBC
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on the back um but yeah that's uh not
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going to be really usable for us here in
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the states nothing I can really do with
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that but you aren't here to see a box
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anyway or Chargers let's be honest we
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all have USBC Chargers around uh
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hopefully they'll get us a proper one
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just cuz you know I want to be able to
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test the charging ability on this thing
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oh yep just as pretty as I remember it
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um before I move on cuz I don't want to
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not uh come back to that point uh with
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the charger specifically uh this one I
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remember while we were in New York was
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showing like 11 12 13 hours of battery
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on a full charge
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um obviously for the review we're going
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to be checking that kind of stuff out uh
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cuz OLED panels tend to really zap the
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battery and so um knowing how fast it'll
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charge up if the OLED um uh panel does
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eat that battery out pretty quickly
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something we definitely want to know and
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I don't want to be plugging in a random
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charger to it um but yeah this is this
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is the device I remember and under this
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lighting I feel like the blue is even
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different than it was in New York and we
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said that in our original video like
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this is uh such a a very cool top end of
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a Chromebook um like sitting here right
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here it's like this really vibrant blue
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here and it's this perfect gradient down
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to almost like a navy color down here
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but I'm sure from different angles it
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looks different uh black bottom and and
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a black interior uh but you can't get
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away from the fact that this thing is
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just wildly thin I mean it's just so
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thin I did this in our original video
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but this is uh a very slim case uh on
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the pixel 9 XL Pro or pixel 9 Pro XL
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sorry um and and you can see even in the
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back the the feet are there so that's
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not even fair let me let me flip it this
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way that's a better
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representation and I mean you can see
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even at its thickest point I don't think
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it's as thick as this phone or it's
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really close um it's just insane um 11 I
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think around 11 mm uh thick and only 2.6
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lb and man it's been a little bit since
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I've handled it I I'm just blown away um
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by how thin and light and rigid this
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thing feels it it is so well made uh so
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so well made but yeah let's let's crack
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this thing open here all right and if I
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remember from New York yep one finger
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lift again that those are cool
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engineering things um it's always worth
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noting those kind of things because when
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you build a chassis this light there's
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not a lot of weight in that base and so
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uh really making sure that the um hold
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on let me click this before Chrome box
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starts yelling at me it it's really uh
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interesting the the um waiting that has
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to be in place for that one finger lift
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to happen U so effortlessly and so
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smoothly especially in a chassis that's
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just light um so that's very cool um and
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again I mean just this area right here
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is just so rigid I mean I can move it a
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little bit and that's just the nature of
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something this thin I mean just look at
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the thinness and lightness of that thing
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uh speaking with Samsung I mean that was
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clearly the main intention they wanted
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to make the thinnest the lightest uh
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Chromebook Plus available and and so
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you'll see some of the things that are
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in this you know uh work towards that
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goal so there's no touchcreen in here uh
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part of that goal was thinness and
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lightness well touch screens add layers
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onto the screen so you're adding
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thickness it has weight all that kind of
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stuff and so um you know some of those
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decisions at a $6.99 price point were
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made to make sure that this is the
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thinnest lightest Chromebook plus and so
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uh you'll hear me talk about that a lot
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I mean there is just I I can't explain
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it I I hope this thing is in Best Buy um
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for for you all to go just check out
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there's just no reason that something
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this this wafer thin at the end should
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feel this rigid uh I I just love the way
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it feels picking it up is so light um
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closing it there's a little magnetic
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clasp you can hear it there let me me do
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that
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again just just just enough just enough
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magnets so that the lids not flopping
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around um and I just I imagine being
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able to put this in my my backpack and
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probably forgetting it's in there it's
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just so well done uh around the sides
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two USBS over here probably not going to
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be able to pick those up on camera like
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it's hard for my eyes to even see them
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uh but a fullsize HDMI port on something
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this thin it's crazy um like I'm having
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a hard time seeing uh micro SD card slot
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there USB type a headphone microphone
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Jack so nice array of ports again for
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something that's slim had they just put
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USB type-c ports on here I don't think
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anybody body would have been too mad
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about it uh on the bottom we've got a
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big sticker on here cuz this is clearly
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a a reference model um not uh full
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retail unit uh but you have your
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downward firing speakers and then your
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area here for cooling and I
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think yeah we're not going to be able to
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get the light in here I'm almost
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positive I can't see it I'm almost
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positive the the single fan is right
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here in the demo units that we uh got
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hands- on in New York I I picked them up
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and tried to listen and couldn't even
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really hear the fan running there but
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yeah so let's crack this bad boy right
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back open here and we'll talk about all
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the stuff that's on the inside all right
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so went ahead and got signed in and all
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that kind of stuff and and again mixed
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with our time in New York with this
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device uh which was again kind of
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minimal uh and then just a few minutes
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of you know navigating the menus and
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getting signed in just like always I can
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kind of tell a handful of things about a
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device um so let's just uh let's let's
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start with the main things so we've
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talked about about thinness and
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lightness obviously already uh inside
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you've got a core 3 so Intel Core 3 it's
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a raptor like refresh so the core 3 100
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U processor 8 gigs of RAM 256 gigs of
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storage uh which I don't know that we've
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had that configuration in the office but
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it should be very very quick um I'm
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going to hold some of that stuff for the
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review obviously um to be able to run
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some benchmarks and test some things but
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everything so far has moved along uh
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nice and quick um so no no issues with
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with performance or anything like that
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you have an AMOLED screen so 1920 by
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1280 or 1920x 1080 I'm sorry um AMOLED
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screen it's standard 15.6 in 16x9 screen
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but it's AMOLED so the the display just
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looks uh pretty incredible I mean even
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like off this angle right here other
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than the glare we're getting from the
10:51
studio lights uh we have to crank down
10:53
the brightness obviously for the cameras
10:55
like the clarity and the the colors and
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stuff are just so so good um it's not a
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touchscreen like I said and and part of
11:03
that plays into this whole idea it's
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thin it's light that's that's the
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motivating factor here um and so they
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didn't add to that um obviously that
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would add to the cost as well but um the
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overall just look of this display panel
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looks fantastic I think the it's got
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like a 1 millisecond refresh rate on it
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or not not refresh rate but um latency
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uh so the refresh rate is still 60 HZ uh
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they did confirm that to us uh but the
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the response time on this thing is
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really low and so um not that that
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changes necessarily the animations but I
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mean hopefully you can see on the on the
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screen there I mean all the there's no
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like ghosting or anything like that on
11:42
the screen so uh that can be a problem
11:44
like you can get a 60 HZ panel and have
11:46
a bunch of ghosting and it looks I don't
11:48
know look they can look really weird uh
11:50
this one exhibits none of those things
11:53
obviously the contrast ratio is
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ridiculous it just looks incredible it
11:57
gets up to 400 knits so now we've talked
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about screen we've talked about
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internals Tons of Speed gorgeous I mean
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it is just a gorgeous screen it looks so
12:05
nice um and obviously very thin bezels
12:08
very thin Topline here uh but then you
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come down to the keyboard and with a
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device that's super thin obviously a lot
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of times the keyboard can kind of take a
12:17
hit
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and this is a great key frame I mean it
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is low travel there's not a ton of
12:24
travel there but I'm okay with low
12:27
travel as long as the the response like
12:29
The Click under your fingers is very
12:30
sure and the keys are tight so if the
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keys are wobbling around and there's not
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a very specific click you can almost get
12:37
lost you can't tell if you actually hit
12:38
the key or not when there's no travel
12:40
this one takes care of all of that it's
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very quiet it reminds me reminds me a
12:45
ton of the original Galaxy Chromebook of
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the the pixel books the pixel book go
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that kind of keyboard that just feels
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very sure it helps that the frame is
12:53
wildly rigid obviously and so it it just
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feels great and the the backlighting of
12:58
the keyboard board isn't leaking all
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over the place uh it just lights up the
13:02
keys basically and and so um much
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appreciated there love that and then you
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have a nice huge uh All Glass trackpad
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so here's my hand over it I mean it's
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it's a that's a big trackpad and there's
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no obviously no flopping around here
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really
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quiet very good click so zero complaints
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whatsoever there and I've said this in a
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bunch of videos but when it comes down
13:28
to it the majority of things you
13:29
interact with are right here so are
13:32
screen keyboard trackpad if those things
13:34
are really really good you can forgive a
13:37
lot of other things and that's what
13:39
you're going to kind of hear me say
13:40
about about this device in general uh
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the performance isn't a problem
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obviously here but there there are
13:45
devices that maybe don't have the best
13:46
performance in the world but if the
13:48
screen's really good the keyboard's
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really good the trackpads really good
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it's like you kind of forgive some of
13:52
those things cuz these are your primary
13:54
interaction points then you mix that
13:56
with a really nice IO you mix that with
13:58
some really uh decent performance what
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I'm expecting here at least and then you
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put it in a chassis that looks feels
14:04
like this I'm telling you you got a
14:07
winner you got a winner here so um let's
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take a look at a couple other things
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real quick before we wrap this up uh
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we'll take a look at the the speakers
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cuz I have no idea what those sound like
14:18
and we'll take a look at the camera real
14:20
quick I did forget though before we get
14:22
into speakers and Camera the keyboard I
14:24
talked about how good it feels and the
14:25
back lighting and all that stuff that
14:26
stuff's obviously super important but
14:28
there other keys on this keyboard and
14:30
layouts that uh I haven't mentioned in
14:33
this video particularly so let's talk
14:35
about those real quick first up the
14:38
function keys if you'll notice there's a
14:40
bunch of them there's 15 function keys
14:42
up here and there's a numeric keypad um
14:45
I'll say this about the numeric keypad I
14:47
like the fact that they're full size
14:48
I've seen them cram them into 15.6 in
14:51
Chromebooks and they're like narrow keys
14:53
I don't think there's a whole lot of use
14:54
there so you're getting full size uh
14:56
numeric keys but if you've ever used a
14:58
numeric keypad in general a plus and an
15:01
enter or an equals button are on the
15:03
right side that's just the way it works
15:05
on those old calculators and stuff and
15:07
so if you're used to using those for
15:08
inputs uh those keys aren't there um so
15:11
I don't love that and so I'm like if
15:13
you're going to kind of dwarf this this
15:16
feature here this is just me let's take
15:18
that out let's Center the keyboard
15:20
trackpad up and put some upward firing
15:22
speakers here that's just what I think
15:23
should do um or you know maybe next time
15:26
around let's go with a 16 X10 screen and
15:29
put a speaker row up top I I don't love
15:31
downward firing speakers in any device I
15:33
get it it's a tiny thin chassis so again
15:36
certain things have to be kind of
15:37
adjusted to make up for that but um not
15:40
a deal Breer or anything like that but I
15:42
you know maybe a numeric keypad without
15:44
those buttons over here is important for
15:46
some people I don't use them a ton um so
15:49
yeah it's there but more importantly the
15:51
function keys up here we get a couple
15:52
extras uh that we don't have in
15:54
Chromebooks and we even get a couple
15:55
different icons here um hopefully Joe
15:58
can kind of see those so your overview
15:59
button that's a that's a different
16:01
graphic um I would assume that's what
16:03
it's going to start being but you know
16:04
that gives you your kind of overview and
16:06
then the um kind of your recent um links
16:10
and stuff down here at the bottom um so
16:11
the the welcome recap feature that just
16:14
launched uh it has that look so when you
16:16
load into the Chromebook it kind of says
16:18
you want to you know resume all your
16:19
stuff and it has some other stuff down
16:21
here but every time you go in overview
16:22
mode now you get this thing that's the
16:24
overview button now it looks quite a bit
16:26
different used to be like three boxes
16:28
kind of next to each other um obviously
16:30
your screen capture screen brightness
16:32
keyboard brightness I love having
16:33
keyboard brightness uh on the on the
16:36
function keys it's nice just a nice
16:38
touch uh but this one is actually a
16:40
dictation button uh we talked about it
16:42
found commits for that uh so when you
16:44
when you uh click into that it's going
16:46
to ask you if you want to turn on your
16:47
dictation it's nothing new uh it's not
16:49
it's not a different dictation it's just
16:51
same dictation that um has been on
16:53
Chromebooks for a long time there's just
16:54
a button for it so if you turn on
16:55
dictation you can just click that key
16:57
and start talking and everything you
16:59
type or everything you say it just start
17:00
being typed wherever that text field is
17:02
uh and then you have a dedicated
17:03
accessibility key right next to that as
17:05
well so that's actually going to bring
17:07
up your accessibility uh in your quick
17:08
settings again if you turn on
17:11
accessibility in your quick settings you
17:12
can get this on your Chromebook it's not
17:14
like it's doing anything new it's just
17:16
there's a button there for it because
17:17
Google said hey look we found a lot of
17:19
people use Exel accessibility features
17:22
whether uh they need them or not and so
17:25
like I've used dictation quite a bit I
17:27
can type and speak fine I don't have I
17:29
don't have problems there where I need
17:30
those things to work uh but I find them
17:33
useful still and so they're they're
17:35
saying like accessibility features are
17:37
great for people that need accessibility
17:38
features like those are awesome things
17:40
to have uh but there's people that don't
17:42
even really need them that still end up
17:43
using them too so that's why they went
17:45
ahead and put that key up here your play
17:47
pause your volume adjustments all that
17:49
kind of stuff so none of that's uh
17:51
different but adding all those keys in
17:52
now you got 15 uh function keys up top
17:55
um and then you have the two keys that
17:58
change the that uh are rocking my world
18:00
right now cuz I'm trying to get used to
18:02
it because Google says this is what the
18:03
future is going to look like for
18:04
Chromebook keyboards you now have the
18:06
quick insert key that is also a caps I
18:09
guess if you alt let's see oh I bet it's
18:12
function I forget there's a function key
18:13
on here there it is there's a function
18:15
key on here as well so it's a lot to get
18:17
used to if you're a Chromebook person
18:18
that's been on Chromebooks for a long
18:20
time like
18:21
myself the launcher key moving down here
18:23
it's a g key now it's still just your
18:25
launcher key um but there's a a g key
18:28
and they've even changed the logo down
18:30
here so that's a pretty significant
18:32
change not a functional change but just
18:34
a significant change because that
18:35
button's now down in that area where the
18:38
ALT key would normally be uh and then
18:41
your quick insert button which if you're
18:43
on a regular Chromebook and you want to
18:44
try this if you're on Chrome OS 130 uh
18:47
it's actually the launcher F now it'll
18:49
bring up this quick insert uh which has
18:51
all kinds of just different stuff that
18:53
you can you drop stuff in from drive you
18:55
can search your files I mean you search
18:57
Google drive from here um your latest
18:59
links your clipboard all that kind of
19:01
stuff's always there and it's available
19:03
across the OS I think it's going to be a
19:05
gamechanging kind of thing I think
19:06
eventually once I get used to using it
19:08
it's going to be amazing but I've got 10
19:10
years of that launcher Search Everything
19:12
key being right there at my pinky I've
19:15
been at it a week I changed it on my
19:16
other keyboard so I just start getting
19:18
my mind around it it's not going well so
19:20
far I still mess it up pretty often uh
19:23
but I think eventually it's going to be
19:25
a big deal but that's a big change like
19:27
some extra features up here in the top
19:29
and the functions no big deal that's a
19:31
big change um and it's going to be
19:33
interesting to see how people kind of
19:34
adapt uh to that difference but yeah
19:37
quick insert is here with a specific key
19:39
launcher is now down here on this
19:41
Chromebook and apparently other
19:43
Chromebooks moving forward all right so
19:45
finally let me bring up a YouTube video
19:47
let's see let's see what these speakers
19:48
sound like cuz again I didn't uh I
19:50
didn't get to listen to these at the
19:52
event because I mean at an event it's
19:54
loud there's tons of people talking like
19:56
trying to listen to laptop speakers in
19:57
that environment it's just not really a
20:00
thing let me actually bring this up
20:02
they're downward firing and this is a
20:03
thin chassis side I don't um I don't
20:07
have huge hopes here but you never know
20:10
let's just see so we are back in the
20:12
studio after returning from New York at
20:14
Google's latest Chromebook uh showcase
20:17
and so excited to be able to unbox
20:20
decently loud but I can talk right over
20:22
this duet there's noic sounds No
20:25
versions nothing it's just the new
20:27
Lenovo Chromebook duet it's got some
20:29
really cool very excited to be unboxing
20:31
this here on the camera with you too so
20:33
we can uh see what this thing's all
20:38
about so
20:40
yeah they're not super loud um but they
20:44
have a decent dynamic range to them um
20:46
they don't sound amazing by any by any
20:48
stretch of the imagination again I go
20:50
back to this idea of thin light
20:52
Chromebook plus was the goal fitting in
20:56
great speakers probably wasn't high on
20:57
the priority list um clearly it's not
21:00
something they focused big on um if
21:02
you're expecting something like the the
21:04
pixelbook go or you know HP dragonfly
21:07
Chromebook uh don't don't expect that
21:10
that's not what this is so let's do
21:13
let's pull up the camera here see I just
21:16
about just then just about hit that
21:17
quick insert key it's going to take some
21:19
getting used to here it's going to take
21:21
some getting used to so it's a 108p
21:22
camera uh they're just meeting that
21:24
Chromebook plus
21:25
spec um yeah the colors look good um but
21:28
it definitely looks you know a tad
21:31
grainy um yeah I mean it's not bad not
21:34
bad at all pointed over at
21:36
Joe yeah you can see you know we've got
21:39
a we've kind of got a big light up here
21:41
but it's doing a pretty decent job
21:42
exposing that stuff and ultimately these
21:45
these um Chromebooks uh you know I what
21:49
I really want out of them is to get get
21:51
a decent color like like balance the
21:54
colors pretty well if it's a little
21:55
grainy it's a little grainy it's not
21:56
that big of a deal but as long as we
21:58
don't have like wild blown out highs and
22:00
like Shadows that are crushed all over
22:02
the place you know it's getting the job
22:04
done but what this tells me is don't buy
22:07
this Chromebook cuz it's got the best
22:08
camera you've ever seen in it I'll just
22:10
tell you the the duet the new duet 11in
22:13
uh has got better cameras in this uh
22:15
don't buy this because it's going to be
22:16
like just this Sonic powerhouse it's
22:19
it's definitely not I can tell you that
22:20
right now but all the rest of the pieces
22:23
that make a great Chromebook experience
22:24
and to me speakers and a camera aren't
22:27
high on that list I mean they're they're
22:29
functional pieces a great screen a great
22:32
keyboard a great trackpad and good
22:34
performance all in a really solid
22:36
chassis that you like to look at and
22:38
feel those are the bigger pillars for me
22:40
and so far I can tell you this thing
22:42
just knocks them out of the park not
22:44
it's it's not like it just accomplishes
22:46
those thing like hey you got over the
22:48
Finish Line good job you finished the
22:49
race like they've built something really
22:51
incredible here um there there's just
22:54
something about it like even closing it
22:56
up I'm just like holy crap I can't
22:58
believe that all that Chromebook resides
23:01
in this little bitty frame um it's
23:03
impressive for sure what I hope o I
23:06
forgot to look at this what I really
23:07
hope is that we don't get to the uh the
23:09
review process and have to say anything
23:11
like we did I messed my pen up
23:13
apparently I'm might have to put my
23:14
password in um I hope we don't get to
23:16
the end of this and end up having
23:19
to um with the original Galaxy
23:22
Chromebook I had to be like look it's
23:23
all great this thing's gravy it's
23:25
awesome the battery life is so bad it's
23:27
a deal breaker for a lot of people um I
23:30
hope that's not the case um I should
23:32
have shown this to you earlier I clicked
23:33
in it and I didn't show it to you it's
23:36
up to 7 earlier uh the battery life was
23:39
at like 98% and it showed I think it's
23:41
like 14 hours or something it's going to
23:43
fluctuate when you're messing around
23:45
with stuff uh we obviously have to hold
23:47
that stuff out for the review but uh
23:49
Google and Samsung claim I think 13
23:51
hours of use for this and so you're
23:53
probably going to be about 50%
23:54
brightness uh on your screen to get
23:56
those kind of numbers but they're going
23:57
to fluctuate I was hoping to to open it
23:59
up and show that to you uh but I'm
24:02
expecting really good battery life out
24:03
of this thing too and I mean the fan
24:07
is I think it's on that's how quiet it
24:10
is I could kick up another notch I don't
24:12
know we got a lot of stuff to cover in
24:14
the review obviously for this thing but
24:16
so far so good this thing is impressive
24:18
um it picking it up and just looking at
24:21
it on the table is just so impressive
24:22
I'm so excited about this device it's
24:24
going to be the perfect device for every
24:26
single person out there no I mean if you
24:28
have to have a pen input or you have to
24:30
have a touchcreen or you have to have a
24:31
convertible obviously this isn't going
24:33
to be the Chromebook for you but for
24:35
those people that are like man I just
24:36
need a good clamshell Chromebook and I
24:37
need something that isn't bulky and
24:39
taking up a lot of space in my backpack
24:42
I this thing is just going to be such a
24:44
knockout for so many people I think they
24:46
did their homework on what people want
24:48
in the Chromebook and it feels like
24:50
they've really knocked it out of the
24:51
park but we got to get to our full
24:53
review on this and that means that we
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