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In this video I unbox and quickly tour the new Toshiba Chromebook 2. A much-anticipated bump in screen quality has made this one quite possibly THE go-to Chromebook for the holidays.
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hey folks Robbie pay with chrome unboxed
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here coming at you today with an
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unboxing of the Toshiba Chromebook 2
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this device is rocking a
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1080p IPS display which is a a big
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feature that a lot of people have asked
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for a lot in in the lower to mid-range
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Chromebooks that we have not seen very
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often aside from the hp11 and the
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expensive Chromebook Pixel this one is
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also uh rocking the the latest betrail
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processor 4 gigs of RAM and um skull CI
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audio so we'll see how kind of some of
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those things all pan out for those of
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you who are not familiar there is a
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lower-end Toshiba Chromebook uh it's a
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little less expensive has the kind of
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Chromebook standard 1366 768 TN panel
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display which a lot of people are
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getting pretty tired of um and for the
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most part seems to be online a lot of
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people are really clamoring over the
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outer parts of this device and and kind
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of coming back to saying you know the
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processor is a little slow the ba Trail
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processors are a tad slow um and
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probably until we start seeing Broadwell
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uh whichever whichever version or part
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of the Broadwell line of processors uh
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at the beginning of the year um start
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getting Chromebooks this is kind of what
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what we're going to see in Chromebook
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performance for now U from what I've
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seen online
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um most of these are hit somewhere in
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the 8,000 on octane if benchmarks mean
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much to you and so that puts it squarely
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in between say the um Samsung arm
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Chromebooks or uh what's the other arm
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Chromebook I'm thinking of uh the Acer
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uh Chromebook 13 those arm Chromebooks
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get somewhere in the 6,000 range and
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then your Haswell uh your hp14 Acer C720
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the old toiba Chromebook um uh designs
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that hat fans um those usually get
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between 10 and 11,000 on octane so this
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puts it squarely in between those two so
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um the 4 gigs of RAM will help with
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multitasking uh but it's not going to be
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the blistering fast Chromebook
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experience that some people are looking
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for myself included but I do believe the
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hardware uh from what I've seen online
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so far really wins out with a lot of
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people uh standard fair in here slim
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pretty standard looking charger block
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and cable we may have to plug that guy
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in to get him to wake
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up I have not seen too many reviews yet
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of this guy it's been a hit and miss as
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far as getting it from major retail
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outlets but it seems like it's starting
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to hit those channels
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now let's get this box out of
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here pull the cloth off and there's a
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lot of striking resemblance to uh not
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surprisingly to the original Toshiba
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Chromebook first off you kind of have
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that dimpled pattern get it up close
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here and see if it can focus on that or
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not there it goes uh so highly textured
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uh but very fingerprint resistant which
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is kind of nice it's not really picking
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up anything I'm doing here on the back
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side it's a less uh glossy less silvery
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version of that same thing lots of
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screws uh so you probably jump in there
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pretty easily but being fanless and slim
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it's probably going to be hard to work
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on I would say on the side we have HDMI
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Kensington lock USB 3.0 combo headphone
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microphone nothing across the back save
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for the
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hinges other side USB 2.0 it looks like
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yep full sizee SD card slot um and then
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your power jack no speaker ports across
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the bottom sides front anything that is
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because this has got um Skool candy
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audio um uh some people may be fans of
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Skull Candy I'm I'm not a huge fan of
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them but um the audio apparently comes
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straight from the keyboard which is kind
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of cool I like that effect and other uh
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Chromebooks that have done that the hp11
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and most notably the the Chromebook
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Pixel um both of them had Stellar audio
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coming from the keyboard uh the device
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is relatively light um pretty thin as
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well and it's a slight bit thinner than
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the original Toshiba Chromebook and it
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does kind of have these beveled edges um
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on it you can see that there's that hard
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bevel there rather than kind of a curved
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meeting there so uh very cool
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indeed so let's open it up and see if oh
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so close almost got the one finger open
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which is pretty awesome let SC this down
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here and see if it's going to power up
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for me if not we'll cut away real quick
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I'll grab the charger and get this thing
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plugged in doesn't look like it's going
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to play along I'll be right
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back all right and in true Chromebook
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fashion I plugged it in and hit record
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and before I could even get back to the
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camera to hit record it had already
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booted up so that's pretty awesome nice
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quick boot time as we know love and
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expect from Chromebooks and I can tell
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you guys just from right now looking at
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the screen apart from the Chromebook
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Pixel hands down best uh best screen
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I've seen yet on a Chromebook that is
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that is nice really really
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gorgeous um first touch on the trackpad
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here a little rainy feeling uh it's
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textured um the original Chromebook or
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Toshiba Chromebook had this as well the
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interior body looks like that brushed
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aluminum actually kind of feels
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texture-wise to the touch like it
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obviously uh hitting on a little bit it
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is not that but overall it's an
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attractive
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design it feels good uh not creaky very
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solid and again no fans no speaker ports
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so it's uh it's very very uh very solid
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in the hand which is pretty cool let's
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get signed on to some Wi-Fi
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here and guys to be honest with you I
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don't know if I'm um real lenient on
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keyboards for the most part they don't
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get me B out of shape and the travel is
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not that great and I'm not typing
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lengthy articles uh every day uh usually
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I'm typing a few lines of code few lines
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of code stop few lines of code so um I
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may not be the best judge of keyboard he
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keboard feels good travel feels okay on
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it keys are nicely spaced um so nothing
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surprising there trackpads nice and wide
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full width of my hand again um the
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texture I'm not crazy for cuz I feel
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like that's going to um take away from
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some of the uh um responsiveness of it
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because it's not going to be easy for
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your finger to slide across I'm not sure
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why companies ever go with a a textured
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trackpad but some of you may like that
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um maybe maybe your thing um not sure I
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can tell you it isn't going to collect
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uh oil and grease nearly as much as a
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slick trackpad would um it doesn't seem
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like the inside is going to do that
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either um kind of pushing all over here
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and not seeing anything actually
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attracted on there which is kind of neat
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I'm hoping to be able to cash in on that
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one terabyte of uh uh storage if if you
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don't know anything about that for a
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limited time you get a Chromebook
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they're giving you a terabyte of storage
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for two years versus the 100 gigs you
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normally get with a Chromebook which is
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pretty nice
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not sure what's going on here hopefully
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this won't take too
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long uh a couple things I can tell you
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from just looking at it right now uh
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viewing angles are great as expected
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from an IPS display there's quite a bit
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of glare on it and I've got the
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brightness cranked uh Max here it's a
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decently bright room see if I can catch
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some of the
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glare yeah you can see
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the and though it is picking up glare uh
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it is doing that um the color
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just look great the blacks are deep um
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like I said off angle viewing looks
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great um it's just a a real pleasure to
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look at a screen that looks like this on
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a Chromebook finally uh while it's doing
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whatever it is it's doing here probably
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pull this out
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now kind of give you a look around with
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it opened um very nice very Sleek um
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very attractive Chromebook in general um
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and again we're not getting
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creaking um not really able to to twist
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or bend
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anything it is an attractive
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attractive Chromebook to say the least
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um I don't know I've ever been stuck
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this long on this particular spot
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determining device configuration let's
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shut down try to restart here and see
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what
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happens I like to at least do something
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so you can kind of see some performance
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but we'll get to that in the review
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um not a huge deal here just to say uh
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on first blush device feels good um um
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very sturdy very attractive U the screen
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is gorgeous it looks like we're going to
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be able to move through good pull this
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off screen real quick get my credentials
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in here
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I'm telling you up close I haven't
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really gotten to get my face down close
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enough to it to interact with it screen
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is just so
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gorgeous all right all logged in
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there and here we go it's going to be uh
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downloading apps and stuff like that so
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take all of this what I'm about to do
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here with a grain of salt let's put it
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through the
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Google+ because as we all know Google+
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seems to be the
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worst are one of the worst websites for
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Chromebooks and they usually struggle
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pretty badly through it so we give it a
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second I want to let it load because I
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know it's downloading a bunch of stuff
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in the
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back um just part of it
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and you know not too bad let's go full
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screen you know a bit of lag but uh I'm
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going to
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say not the worst thing I've ever seen
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usually those arm Chromebooks I pull up
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go+ the first time and it's just a
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nightmare um
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not real bad at all I'm not going to lie
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this is uh this is impressive now an
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update did go out last week uh one of
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the new Chrome OS updates and it only
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hit uh
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um seemed like the most of the Bay Trail
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most of the uh Haswell processor
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processor powered Chromebooks were left
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out of that but um so it seems like it's
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doing okay especially with the
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installing stuff behind so my hopes are
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a little higher um my hopes are pretty
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low to be honest with you as far as
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performance goes the last betay tril
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Chromebook I had was the Asus C300 and I
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wasn't real happy with that so I'm
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trying uh I'm getting ready to move into
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maybe a different approach um so you may
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get a longer uh look review at this
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device with me because um I'm thinking
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about for work going to a chrome box um
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I've ordered it we're going to see how
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it works out the as the Asus Chrome box
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is the one you you can open up and
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manipulate pretty easily I'm going to
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you know I I ordered the I3 version
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going to fill it up with some extra RAM
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and maybe do a review once I've once
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I've tweaked it up a little bit and use
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it for work and kind of leave it at the
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desk and they're small you can grab it
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take it with you if you need but um and
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then have maybe this device as my carry
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around Chromebook and so you know still
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be looking at staying under that $600
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$700 total package for uh work rated
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materials so to me that's a that's a
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very a normal and standard price point
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so uh ideally what I'd like to have is
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something like this with a Broadwell
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processor in it something that can
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really be a beast um and an all in one
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thing but we're not there yet uh
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hopefully beginning to Quarter Two of
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next year we'll start seeing some
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high-powered uh fanless IPS display
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wielding awesome Chromebooks um we're
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getting there and the the selection just
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keeps growing so that's pretty awesome
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uh until a few weeks maybe a week and a
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half or so I'm going to use this thing
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try to use it at home a lot um and and
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really get a good feel for uh how good
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this device is I can tell you it looks
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really great just sitting on the desk
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one thing I saw a complain about before
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and and who knows maybe with an IPS
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display it doesn't matter that's as wide
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as this thing opens so there's no
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opening it past that that width and so
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I'll show you that angle and we'll talk
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about this more in a review whether this
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becomes a bothersome thing so um keep
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that in mind if if you're somebody for
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some reason that happens to use them and
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open them up real wide or something this
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one doesn't open any farther than that
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so just the way it's built anyway uh
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said more likes more subscriptions more
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videos all that kind of stuff um keep it
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locked here in a week and a half two
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weeks or something like that we'll have
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the review up of this guy hopefully uh
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having used it in lots of different
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scenarios um because I'm thinking about
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keeping it as kind of a like I like I
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was saying a split daily driver kind of
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device so uh we will see um again keep
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it locked here hope to see you again
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soon have a good one
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