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here Chrome on box we operate and to
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similar yet pretty distinctly different
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worlds one of those worlds is this one
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here where we're making videos about new
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products and unboxing stuff but the
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other one is over on the website at
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Chrome on box comm and if you've never
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heard of it I advise you to go over and
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check it out we get to delve into stuff
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that we don't generally make videos
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about like new features and tips and
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tricks and upcoming devices and how we
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dig through the repositories to find all
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those and we save that stuff for the
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website because it kind of gets in the
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weeds a little bit but because of the
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season that's coming up in the next
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probably two to three months we're
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expecting to see an absolute onslaught
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of new chrome OS devices and since
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that's the case I wanted to go over how
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we find some of those devices with you
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guys here on the YouTube channel and let
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you know about some of the things that
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we are expecting to see in the next few
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months because it looks like it's going
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to be a pretty exciting time
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started today as I said some of the
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stuff we get into on the web site can
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get a little bit in the weeds and I
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don't really want to go there here on
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YouTube but I want to give you a little
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bit of insight as to how we go about
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finding these new devices and most of it
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comes from the chromium repositories
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which is a fancy way of saying the open
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source place where chromium OS gets
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developed and because it's open source
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and done in the open when new boards and
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and devices get added you can see them
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anybody can go and look at these codes
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and if you want to dig around enough the
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way that we do you can go in there and
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find quite a bit of information about
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stuff that's coming down the pipe one of
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the most important pieces of info we can
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get from the repositories is base boards
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and these base boards are basically if
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you think about it like the center part
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of a wheel that has spokes coming off of
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it there are three of them were tracking
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right now and each one of them is the
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center part to multiple devices and so
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the board itself will have all these
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features on it and each spoke each
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device that the manufacturers making can
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use or not use any of those pieces and
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so will get unique devices out of them
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but inside of them will all be the same
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base board and so we're able to kind of
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see one board and know that a slew of
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devices are coming off of that single
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board a perfect example of this is last
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year we were tracking a base board
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called Nami and we tracked it and knew
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that there were gonna be a few
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Chromebooks we had no idea how many it
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was gonna spawn and devices like the HP
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X 360 the dell inspiron the lenovo yoga
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and multiple other devices that are very
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similar and build are all from that one
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Namie base board and it's there just
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variations on that same internal setup
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and so one base board can end up making
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multiple devices and that's exactly what
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we're seeing right now so the first
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family of devices we are seeing is
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under the baseboard hatch and it's
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similar to Nami so it's just kind of a
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newer version of that baseboard so we're
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gonna see kind of the higher end devices
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come off of this it's a comment Lake
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processor set so anything from a core M
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3 to a core i5 core i7 the fanned ones
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the non fanned ones all that stuff all
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that gets encompassed in the same
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baseboard and we're seeing like 10 to 12
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I think devices at this point that we
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are certain of that are getting
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developed right now on that baseboard so
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think devices like the Asus C 434 and
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the HP X 360 from last year those types
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of devices these kind of flagship
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caliber devices and we know those things
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are coming we're expecting to see a
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handful of them at CES in January and
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through the next few months because
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they've been developed for like nine
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months at this point we're expecting to
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see all of those just start rolling out
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one after another after another early in
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2020 with those devices you can expect
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things like high-res displays
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fingerprint scanners pin support backlit
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keyboards all the fancy stuff that you
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expect from the high-end Chromebooks as
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a matter of fact we're kind of convinced
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we don't have any firm proof of this but
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we're kind of convinced that one of
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these will probably be the pixel book -
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not the pixel book go with the pixel
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look - a real successor to the pixel
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book because this baseboard has every
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Bell and whistle that we could possibly
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imagine for a Chromebook moving forward
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so basically if a manufacturer wants to
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make one that has all the extra stuff
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all the things you could think of
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catches the baseboard that they're gonna
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build that thing off of the second
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family of devices is based on a
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baseboard called Cucuy
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I think it's K U K UI and this baseboard
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actually has the MediaTek 81-83
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processor and so it's the follow up to
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older Chromebooks that have an older
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mediatek processor it's an ARM based
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processor and most of these devices that
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we're seeing coming off of this
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baseboard are almost all tablets or
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detachable x' we're seeing pogo pins and
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cases pen support fingerprint support
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all that kind of fun stuff but we're
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expecting to see a bunch of ARM based
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tablets come from the Kukui baseboard
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and finally we have one base board on
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the Qualcomm 845 chip and it's called
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Chezza and we've been tracking this
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for and last December Qualcomm actually
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at their developer summit said hey look
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we are going to have Qualcomm
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Chromebooks plural out by the end of
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2019 well we're at the end of 2019 and
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we haven't seen those yet so whether
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they show up or get announced in the
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next couple of weeks or they show up at
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CES we're pretty confident we'll start
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seeing those also arrive in the first
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quarter of 2020 and again these have all
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the bells and whistles along with that
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Snapdragon 845 processor which will
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easily be the most powerful ARM
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processor we've ever seen in a
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Chromebook and we're talking pin support
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fingerprint readers detachable stuff
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tablet type things so that's a pretty
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exciting development as well now I've
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just thrown a ton of different words at
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you and baseboards and chromium
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repositories and all that kind of stuff
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what you need to know from all this is
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that we are keeping a very close eye on
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the development of new Chromebooks and
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Chromebook tablets and detachable x' and
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all that kind of stuff so that you can
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be better informed on knowing whether it
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is you should or shouldn't buy a
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Chromebook or whether you should wait
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for the next thing to come out because
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right now we're gonna rare season where
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within probably eight weeks from now
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maybe twelve weeks we are going to see
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an absolute slew of new Chromebooks and
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they're exciting looking Chromebook
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stuff that detaches and tons of pen
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support tons of fingerprint readers and
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different light sensors and all kinds of
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bells and whistles that we haven't yet
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seen on Chromebooks existing right now
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so it's an exciting time to be a Chrome
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OS fan and I think if you're not
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absolutely sold on having to have a new
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device right now I know it's Christmas
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time and all that kind of stuff but if
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you're not sold on having to have one
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right now there might be an incentive to
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wait until the beginning of next year
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2020 because there is a ton of stuff
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getting ready to come out we're excited
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about it we hope you're excited about it
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