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Google's Chromebook hardware has been pretty straightforward since the inception of the Chrome OS. With their first entry into the fold with the Chromebook Pixel followed by the 2015 version of that device, the Pixelbook, and finally the Pixel Slate, Google hasn't veered too far from their original plan with their in-house Chromebooks. Premium builds and premium price tags have dominated this landscape and for many, that has meant a decision to pass on the often-great hardware on offer by Google.
But, what if there was a shift inside Google when it comes to building Chromebooks? What if, instead of top-of-the-line, high-end, high price Chromebooks we finally saw Google choose to aim for the mid-range instead.
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as it turns out Google sells more than
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just Chromebooks who knew I mean all
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jokes aside Google's hardware divisions
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responsible for a lot more than
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Chromebooks and Chromebooks only make up
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a small percentage of that hardware in
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general the thing you've heard of
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probably most and seen advertised most
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are the pixel phones - the pixel pixel -
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and pixel three and Google's had to just
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come out and say look we're not selling
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a lot of these phones they're expensive
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and in general people to start buying
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them and so they've dropped two new
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phones the pixel three a and three Axl
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and while we're not going to start
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reviewing phones at this point and we're
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not going to all of a sudden introduced
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phone reviews into our normal line of
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videos we do want to talk about this
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phone for just a few minutes because
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I've been using it for a couple of weeks
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and I have some thoughts on how it will
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impact hopefully impact Google's
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hardware decisions and how they go about
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making Chromebooks moving forward before
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started today as I said at the top we're
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not going to review this device and
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we're not going to get into all the
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nitty-gritty specs and all that kind of
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stuff but I do want to tell you a little
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bit about using the device on a daily
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basis I've had it for a couple weeks and
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I've loved it honestly way more than I
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expected - I got it because I was just
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curious and turned out I almost didn't
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want to give it back and I'm still not
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sure what I'm gonna do I do know for me
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personally it makes no sense for me to
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move from my three XL over to this phone
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just because it's a lateral move
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financially and honestly it is a
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degradation in a couple spots I would
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lose waterproofing and the processors
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not as fast but all of those things
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aside to be honest with you the
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processor stuff never noticed it the
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screen just as good the speakers I think
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are a skosh better than the 3xl I enjoy
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the way that the audio sounds when I
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record video better the camera exactly
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as good as the 3xl so it didn't feel
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like that degradation and user
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experience I simply enjoyed using it I
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don't know how else to say it other than
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I don't want to let go of this phone I
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there's a charm to it there's something
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about it that is just enjoyable and I
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think if you're even thinking about
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getting this phone I would 100% say go
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do it at 400 bucks for the three it's
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fantastic buy at 480 for this one that
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I've been using it's a fantastic Buy
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it's a great phone not just for kids or
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people that don't know how to use phones
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I think anybody that enjoys smart phones
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and enjoys pure Android and the
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experience that a pixel brings you get
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the pixel experience with this thing and
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that's really really important as we get
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into this next part
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as I said at the top of the video Google
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makes lots more than just Chromebooks
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but one thing they've never done with
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Chrome OS or Chromebook is make a device
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that is a budget or mid-range Chromebook
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they've had the Chromebook pixel and and
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the one that came out in 2015 and then
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they had the pixel book and now they got
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the pixel slate and even when they put
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the pixel C out which is not a Chrome
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device because kind of sort of meant to
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be one it was expensive too and so
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you've got all these Hardware pieces and
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these larger computing form factors that
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Google has put out and they're great I
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still think the world of my pixel book
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and I think the hardware is great on the
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slate and I loved both Chromebook pixels
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but they've never been mid-range they've
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never been something that Joe Schmoe is
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gonna go grab off-the-shelf and think
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hey you know what I'll give it a try
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they're expensive they're really
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expensive for Chromebooks and so the
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only users that are ever gonna think
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about using them are people that are
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just entrenched in Chrome OS and so
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because of that the sales have always
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just been kind of ok what would happen
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if Google saw this because I think this
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phone is gonna sell like crazy because
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the price is great and the experience is
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great and reviews across the board have
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been great it's gonna sell pretty well
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it's in carriers as well what if Google
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saw that and saw the effect that that
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has on their pixel 3 sales and I'm
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counting three three XL three a three a
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XL all in one group if all of a sudden
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pixel 3 sales go from this and jump way
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up because of this device what might
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that inform for making Chromebooks I
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know that there's probably gonna be have
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one other high-end Chromebook come out
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this year and maybe next year even but
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what if Google looked at it and said oh
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huh yeah people don't like paying tons
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of money for tech people like paying
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small amounts of money for tech and if
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they took that idea and they began
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making Chromebooks that were more
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mid-range they didn't have to have the
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the highest end specs but they still had
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that Google quality to them and that
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stuff's hard to like pin down it's hard
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to look at a device and say this is
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exactly why this device is so fun to use
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but the pixel book just continues to be
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a great device because it's hardware but
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it doesn't have the fastest processor
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anymore and maybe it doesn't even have
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the best screen on the market but
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there's just something about the package
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that they put together that makes it
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awesome to use what if they could figure
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out that the way they've done here with
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this phone and do
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same thing with a Chromebook where they
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they kind of bring down some of the
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hardware and cut out some of the things
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they need to to make a mid-range
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Chromebook made by Google that's Google
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branded gives you the same level of
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experience and feels like you're using a
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Google made Chromebook and sold it for
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five hundred bucks or four hundred bucks
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or even six hundred bucks what would
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that do to the made by Google Hardware
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in the Chrome OS division and I hope
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maybe somebody's watching this maybe
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somebody is gonna look at this and think
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huh maybe we should do that but really I
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hope it's informed by the sale of this
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phone I'm hoping that as Google sees
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that this thing takes off and it
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increases their market share and and
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increases the number of people that own
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it they start thinking about what it
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would look like to make a mid-range
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Chromebook that lots and lots of people
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would buy I think back to the Samsung
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Chromebook that came out years and years
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ago 2012 I think it was the series three
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and they ran the commercials for it all
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over the place and it was the Chromebook
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for everyone it's a computer for
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everyone everything was for everyone
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it's this for everyone Google hasn't
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made a Chromebook for everyone in a
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while and I'm really really hoping it's
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about time that they do so but guys
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