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Finally, I got my hands on the Toshiba Chromebook 2 (2015). Enjoy!
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robbie pay with chrome unbox coming at
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you today with an unboxing of the new
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toshiba chromebook 2 it has not changed
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its title uh from its predecessor
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however some of the things on the uh
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outside has changed a lot of the things
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on the inside have changed uh so we're
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going to unbox it take a quick look now
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for those of you uh who are familiar
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with this device possibly owners of its
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predecessor uh my whole point uh with
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this device is going to be seeing if
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they've kind of cleaned up some of the
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performance issues which i know a lot of
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you didn't feel like you had performance
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issues before um i for one did i really
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enjoyed the device but could not work
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from it on a daily basis because it just
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wasn't quite up to snuff it had the uh
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bay trail processor in it last time
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around which is nice because it was
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fanless uh had 4 gigs of ram had a
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beautiful ips display easily uh other
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than the pixel thus far best display
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i've seen on a chromebook and i do
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really still like the acer chromebook 15
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um it's got a really nice display on as
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well but it was not a match for this one
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um and the upcoming dell chromebook
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which some people have asked about uh
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the review hopefully will be coming soon
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i'm waiting on them to ship mine to me
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so uh anyway back to toshiba so they've
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kept all that external stuff the same uh
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from what i understand they've now added
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backlight to the keyboard which is rare
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in the chromebook world um and they've
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kept the audio the same uh and then
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they've upgraded to either the uh newest
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fifth gen uh broadwell um celeron
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processor or i3 processor and so um i
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went for the i3 model so it's $100 more
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for the i3 i think it starts at 329 you
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go up to $429 for the i3 uh it is only
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paired with 4 gigs of ram which i'm kind
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of bummed about i think with 8 gigs of
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ram this would be my go-to device but
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we're going to see i'm going to put it
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through um complete work week and work
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completely from this and only this for
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the week uh right now my uh desktop
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setup is a um fourth gen i3 with 10 gigs
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of ram um and my uh mobile uh setup is
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the acer 15 with the celeron processor
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and only 4 gigs of ram and it doesn't
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seem to bother me that much so it'll be
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interesting to spend an entire week with
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this thing and see if i run into any
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hiccups as far as the ram go but all
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that being said let's cut into this guy
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and have a look see
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so yeah a lot of the the complaints that
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were lodged towards this chromebook um
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mainly were about performance a lot of
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people used to say "okay if this if this
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device came up with um a better
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processor this would be the best
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chromebook on the market." so apparently
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toshiba's listened and they have done
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just that uh we got some quick start
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guides but for those of you who are
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probably watching this realize it's a
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chromebook you sign in and go that's it
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it's that simple welcome to your
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chromebook three simple steps see turn
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it on connect it sign in that's it
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there's really nothing else to do so um
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cool if they include that for people
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who've never owned a chromebook before
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going to go ahead and pull these out cuz
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as you guys know nine times out of 10
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until i plug this thing into the wall
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it's not going to wake up so just part
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of the process
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and from what i'm what i'm understanding
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thus far the outside of this guy isn't
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going to change much say for the fact
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that there's probably a couple vents for
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ports and everything i've seen so far
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suggests that uh those fans are very
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quiet out of the way and aren't going to
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bother anybody
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so let's get this out of the way
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and yeah from looks of it it looks like
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uh we're set up very similar to the way
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we were last year it is a lot darker i
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will say that i haven't noticed that on
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camera and you may not be able to notice
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it either with the light glimmering off
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of it the color is actually a lot darker
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so it looks like it's trying a lot less
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uh to be a macbook air clone um and just
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kind of being its own thing it does i
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know a lot of people complain last year
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about the fact that the bottom was a
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different color um it wasn't as
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pronounced last year it's pretty
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pronounced this year so i don't know
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i'm not a huge fan of that but again
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it's the underside of the computer so
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i'm not really going to complain too
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much about it same textured finish at
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the top you can kind of see possibly is
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it going to focus that's tough
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no it's not going to so same texture
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finish at the top um very similar bottom
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that we do have the vent uh port here
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and vents back here other than that it's
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still very thin uh very light uh very
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manageable um and i i overall enjoyed
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the build quality of of last year's
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version of this guy so i'm not too upset
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about any of that trackpad layout looks
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the same um less stickers on the inside
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so yay thanks toshiba usually we got to
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peel off a sticker here and sticker here
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there is that pesky intel sticker which
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you're going to have to have some
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chemicals of some sort if you would like
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to remove that sticker because i don't
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know what they glue that thing on with
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gorilla glue or something god forbid it
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be taken away nobody knows that there's
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intel inside
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all right so we're going to plug this
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guy in real quick just to get it to wake
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up
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oh there's that pretty screen so we're
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looking at uh 1920 x 1080 full ips or
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full hd ips display here uh really great
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colors it'd be interesting to see it uh
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in dark rooms and stuff to see i know
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there was a bit of light bleed on the
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the older model um to see if they fixed
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any of that stuff i know i personally
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got one of the versions that had um a
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dead pixel in it and so we got 25 30%
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battery it's enough um
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and so it'll be interesting to see if we
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run into any of those the trackpad uh
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still has the same type feel there's
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there's a bit of friction on there uh
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it's just depends what you like you're
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not going to worry about thinking this
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might be a glass trackpad you're it's
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very clear it's not u but it still feels
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good very responsive um we all know
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trackpads are really good on chromebooks
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so just the way it is
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get signed into the wi-fi
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i don't know why i'm hiding this cuz
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it's our public wi-fi at the office just
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have it sorry about that
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so first blush uh screen crazy bright um
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very sharp looks great from any angle um
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so you know they really didn't have to
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fix much uh the screen last year was
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obviously the selling point of this
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device made everybody kind of drool over
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it um that's always makes me feel good
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when the google sign in doesn't work
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it's pretty cool
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oh now we're up okay this part i do need
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to download
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while that's loading we'll try to get
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you a close-up look for those of you who
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have not seen this device in action
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before and you can see as it focuses
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there everything's very sharp uh very
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crisp very bright uh just a really
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really really pretty display um the
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device doesn't feel very flimsy at all
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um feels pretty well built um pretty
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firm um let's see i don't know how we
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can test the back lighting to be honest
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with you on the keys
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um let me hit this light over here
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okay so yeah it's a very light um not
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sure let me turn the brightness down
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here
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and you can see a nice pleasant
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backlighting on the keys a little bit of
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bleed whenever you bend way down this
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way i don't know if there's a keyboard
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shortcut i have to research that but
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yeah for typing in the evening if you're
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in bed or something like that having
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that uh back lit keyboard pretty sweet
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and let me type just a couple things
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just to give you a feel of travel
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yeah the uh travel on the keys is really
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good keyboard feels less mushy than it
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did last time around uh pretty clicky um
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you know again it's not chromebook pixel
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but it's actually pretty good uh
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trackpad feels pretty good build quality
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feels pretty good we still got uh
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slightly sharp edges uh that they kind
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of carried over from last year and it's
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just the way they're doing it so um let
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me play just a little bit of audio real
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quick if i pull something up see what
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comes up on youtube first thing cuz we
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also have the skull candy audio going on
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here so
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see the first thing pops from here some
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bed shearing that work oh it is actually
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on the new record it's on it's on the
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deluxe version uh it's a song about
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dwars and dragons and all that sort of
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stuff i'll dedicate this
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[Music]
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seems like a very quiet video well let's
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find something else
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there we go it's an actual music video
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here
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so for those of you all who don't know
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the speakers actually on this device
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come out through the keyboard so there's
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no speaker ports anywhere it comes
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straight up through the keyboard all uh
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chromebook pixel so you've kind of got a
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premium audio experience premium video
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experience um way faster processor now
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um really good keyboard trackpad i mean
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the only thing i could see possibly that
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would be a negative on this is that we
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can't give them the 8 gig option
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[Music]
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the speakers sound good they're not like
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crazy loud
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but they sound good really round
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so yeah that's that's pretty pleasing uh
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last thing we're going to do we'll run
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an octane score real quick
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i'd say it will be quite high
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like i said this is running the i3 uh
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with 4 gigs of ram so probably going to
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see a pretty decent score here
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trackpad's getting clicky not a real
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loud uh cheap feeling click it feels
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pretty solid
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and so overall first blush uh pretty
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happy with the the way this thing's
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built again uh i have the dell
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chromebook 13 which obviously would sit
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right next to this ips display 1080p the
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upside on the dell chromebook uh the
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main one uh would be that i i got the
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one with 8 gigs of ram so that's a
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pretty important thing for me i i
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usually have a lot of stuff going on and
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i've talked about that at length in
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other videos uh the other thing is the
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dell chromebook's going to be a little
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bit more polished uh glass trackpad
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magnesium alloy body uh carbon fiber top
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that kind of stuff so uh it might edge
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this one out quite a bit it's already
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done just shy of 16,000 so that's that's
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moving along quite nicely now to put
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that in perspective um the same devices
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with an i5 the fifth gen i5 get
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somewhere around 25,000 so that i5 and
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i3 difference are are quite uh uh quite
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vast whereas the um celeron version of
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this would be getting around 13,000 so
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you're getting a bump it's a little
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faster i would say for most people stick
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with the celeron processor it's going to
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be plenty of computing power i've been
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using it on a daily basis with the acer
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15 and it's been just fine so um like i
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said i'm going to spend a week with this
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guy uh work with it uh day in day out
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you know the scaling issues that some
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people have on a 13-in display are those
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things going to be troublesome 4 gigs of
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ram is that going to be troublesome
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we'll see uh and we'll have the full
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review up probably week week and a half
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from now until then guys thanks for
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