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unbox today coming at you with a full
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review of the Toshiba
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Chromebook now a lot of people have been
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asking me about this device and asking
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me to do a a comparison with hp14 kind
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of its closest competitor
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it to the channel uh but today I'm want
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to focus on uh kind of keeping a short
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video here um with the with the Toshiba
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Chromebook um mainly because we're
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getting to a point and uh you'll hear me
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talk about this in some other videos as
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well uh you'll hear me talk about this
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in the hp14 versus chro uh Toshiba
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Chromebook uh review as well we're
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getting to a point with Chromebooks
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right now there's a there's a homogeny
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going on so we we have a lot of
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Chromebooks with the Haswell class
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processor we got a lot of Chromebooks
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with 2 gigs of RAM we got a lot of
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Chromebooks with a 1366 X 768 resolution
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we got a lot of Chromebooks with a 720p
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front-facing camera and so we got all
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these similarities um and then obviously
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we're all running Chrome OS and Chrome
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OS looks the same on every single device
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so there's not a ton to cover um I would
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encourage you to watch of other units if
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you want to see me do um more stuff as
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far as pulling up um um more programs
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and all that kind of stuff uh to be
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honest with you guys this thing performs
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well it performs really well it performs
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just as well as the hp14 the Acer C720
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uh it does a good job um it performs the
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way you'd expect a Haswell class
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processor to perform there's really no
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other tweaks there's nothing else they
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can do with it and so we bring up things
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like uh uh Google+ and it Scrolls nice
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and smooth um not because they fixed
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Google+ in any way but because this
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thing has a hawle processor in it and it
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just does not struggle you can see the
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three finger scrolling between tabs does
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fine three fingers up to go to um
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overview mode does just fine everything
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runs the way you expect it to run so if
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you're if you've seen the hp14 review if
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you've seen the Acer c720p review you
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know that these devices run really well
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with the Haswell class processor under
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the hood now one thing that different
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between this and the hp14 again we'll
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cover this in the side by-side
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comparison but it is a 2 gig versus a 4
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gig so this the Toshiba Chromebook is a
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2 gig machine uh what that does not mean
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however um is that it struggles it does
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not mean that um you can see on my
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channel there's a video where I've put
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the Acer c720p which basically has the
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same internals as this guy almost I
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think exactly um and I I pit it against
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hp14 specifically trying to push the ram
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um and and and when I did that yes I
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found some places where it would HIC up
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and it really ran into the problems and
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so when I pulled this guy out of the box
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and I started using I used it for 10
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days so just about 2 weeks of of work I
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really expected to start running into
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some hurdles just for um uh for
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guidelines here my usual work scenario
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has me with five to seven tabs open in a
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in a browser usually got Google Music
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running casting to a chomecast and then
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I have something like um this really
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awesome pixer touchup um I do I do web
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web design um so some light coating um
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CSS
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HTML um PHP that kind of stuff a little
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bit of JavaScript so I'm not doing
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anything insanely intensive I'm also not
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running games in the background or
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anything like that but I usually have
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that kind of stuff running and then at
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the same time I'll have umuntu which I
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don't have it I don't have it running on
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here right now but I'll have it running
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in the background as well um right
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running usually uh inkscape which is an
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SVG editor and filezilla which is an FTP
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client so those two things sitting in
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the background usually multiple images
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running so that's absorbing some of that
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RAM and then five to seven tabs open
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some Google Play Music and an image
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editor maybe my file uh file browser
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that kind of stuff uh and probably
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Google keep open so it sounds like a lot
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of stuff and it sounds like man you're
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probably starting to pull on the RAM and
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honestly I never did uh I don't think
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one time ever happened where I ran into
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issues so the two G versus 4 gig thing
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um yeah you can make um you can make a
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an argument there that yes at some point
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the 4 Gig wins out of course it does it
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just makes sense a faster processor is
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always better than a slower one uh more
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Rams always better than less Ram anyway
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the 2 gigs of RAM just really didn't end
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up causing me much problem at all I was
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I was a bit shocked by that to be honest
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I was kind of waiting for it expecting
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it to happen and it just didn't happen
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so um pretty excited about that before
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we move on I'm going to take a quick
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Hardware tour um as honestly outside
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Hardware is the biggest differentiator
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here you're not going to see me run a
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whole lot of stuff first thing is the
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speakers I got a song queued up here
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and you can hear the speakers are loud
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uh they're not breaking up and there's
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actually a little bit of low end in
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there which is kind of nice it's not a
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lot but a little bit of low end which is
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is nice it definitely beats out the
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other Chromebooks I've heard so speaker
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quality is good I don't listen to stuff
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through my laptop speakers it's either
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earphones or CH casting for me but um if
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that's your thing then these are pretty
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decent um we have a nice spacious
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keyboard keyboard has really good travel
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to it uh I didn't I didn't have any
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issues typing no M Strokes none of that
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stuff um everything was pretty good um
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and everything spaced out a full-size
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keyboard that's a nice thing about 13.3
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in devices you got some space on the
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sides you got plenty of space for your
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palms very comfortable to work on on
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very comfortable to sit and look at all
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day every day moving kind of upwards
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we've got the screen 1366 X 768 is the
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resolution just like pretty much every
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other Chromebook um this one does have a
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slightly better contrast ratio than the
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hp14 colors seem a little bit truer on
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it and so it does get the nod over the
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14 in that it's still not on par with
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hp11 uh which has that IPS panel with
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the awesome Rich colors and all that
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kind of stuff it it's not on that level
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folks but uh it's a decent Monitor and
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it doesn't bum your eyes out looking at
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it uh all day and the 13.3 in diagonal
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give you uh plenty of uh viewing area
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and so if you're working from this thing
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for hours on end you don't get that
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cramped feeling you get kind of from
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11.6 in device or at least uh what I
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feel um moving up top we got the Dual
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array speaker or dual array microphones
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and you also have uh 720p front facing
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camera works great for video chats um
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it's you know it's a 720P camera it's a
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front-facing camera and that's kind of
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been an area where they've cheaped out
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so far hopefully that's again when we
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see the the much wanted from a handful
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of us uh mid-range Chromebook we might
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see a a better screen and a little bit
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you know better uh front-facing camera
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for those uh Google Hangouts the outside
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of this device uh or at least the inside
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parts of the outside are are covered in
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this uh aluminum like uh finish and it
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it's kind of is textured like a Macbook
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is I'm sure that's kind of what they
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were going for um so it's obviously
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plastic you can kind of feel the give
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and it's not cold like uh like metal is
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but it's got a nice feel it picks up
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zero fingerprints which is really
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awesome um like I said gives you plenty
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of room to really work in here and it's
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matte finish around the edges so in this
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places where you touch it all the time
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you're not left with fingerprints all
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over the place making your device look
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gross trackpad uh it's very spacious no
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issue running with three uh two and
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three finger gestures you know you just
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saw me do those those things um it's
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it's nice and sensitive works just fine
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um it's it's slightly less responsive
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than the hp14 but then I I find the hp1
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14's trackpad to be really really really
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excellent um this one is is also very
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very good and and I have really no
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complaints with it at all um but again
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hp14 is a slight bit better um but
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keyboards and trackpads for the most
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part I think when you're talking about
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low range uh low price Chrome
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Chromebooks being you know low price lap
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tops in general um the the trackpads
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been great I've used many many much more
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expensive Windows notebooks that have
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had terrible trackpads um and so that's
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one thing I'm I'm always happy that
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Chromebooks seem to pretty much get the
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trackpad and the keyboard right so no
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complaints whatsoever about that
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speakers and the screen is is good um
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again the only excellent screen I've
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seen I've never seen a pixel in person
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only excellent Chromebook screen I've
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seen is hp11 uh really is is a fantastic
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uh screen so I'm going to close it and
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look around the outside a little bit um
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there is a uh a texture see if I can get
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it to focus on that yeah you can see
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those dimples in there um not a fan of
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that I think it cheapens the feel I wish
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they would have kept that aluminum uh
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feel on this as well maybe it was too
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much maybe it looked funny I'm not sure
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um around the side we've got the 3.o USB
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ports if you need them HDMI out combo
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headphone microphone sloted around that
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other side SD card slot um your charging
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port Kensington
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lock fans here fans there and then your
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speaker grills for those nice loud
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speakers they did a good job I'm I'm
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pleased with those and little feet um
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you can pop this guy open and I've not
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seen anybody yet say that they can
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change the hard drive out but it could
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be and the ram is soldered on so
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probably no no changing that but you do
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see it's it it strikes a nice Sleek uh
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attractive profile it looks good on the
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desk
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uh and it you know it's pretty much free
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of creaking it feels solid uh which is
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nice the only cheap part I really felt I
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mean and it feels real cheap is this
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right back here in the back of the
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screen you can see how much play that
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bad boy has I mean it just I mean I
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could pull it up and stick my finger in
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there and so it really feels kind of
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wobbly um and and you feel that because
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you you hold the computer like this a
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lot and it just is really squishy down
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here and so that's the only part where
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it came across feeling a little cheap
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other than that I mean it really feels
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good um I I haven't I haven't really had
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much to complain about with this guy I
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saw in a production unit uh one of the
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early Hands-On they actually were able
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to lift the lid you know without holding
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the bottom for some reason that's a huge
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thing to me it just kind of Screams
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quality of a of a laptop you can just
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kind of lift the lid up um and I was
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hoping that was going to be the case it
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has not been the case on this one so I
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was a little bummed about that but again
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these These are nitpicky things these
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are not deal breaking items so overall
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what would I say about the Toshiba
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Chromebook
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um it it fits the bill as far as being
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on par with all the rest of the
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Chromebooks right now um it's not
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struggling to perform uh it's not
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struggling with a terrible screen it's
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not struggling with a terrible keyboard
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or an average trackpad it's got a great
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trackpad it's got a great keyboard it's
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got a good screen it's got pretty good
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build quality uh you don't see a lot of
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flex in the keyboard I mean and things
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are firm and it feels good I mean it
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feels good to use I've enjoyed my time
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with it you know I did didn't uh you
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know if if someone took my hp1 14 away
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from me and I had to use this and had to
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keep this I I would not complain I would
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not be sad about it um I do like the
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hp14 slightly better um one of the main
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ones is the the clickability of the
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trackpad um this one has kind of that
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thinner uh click feel to it whereas the
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HPS feels more
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substantial um but again I'm I'm
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nitpicking uh when it comes down to it I
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there's not a whole lot bad to say about
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this guy again I'm waiting for
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Chromebook that has an IPS panel 16 100
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by 900 or full 1080p something like that
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uh in that 13 to 14 inch range I'm
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waiting for one that you know doesn't
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ship with two gigs it always has 4 gigs
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and maybe a little bit more solid state
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but again I I don't use much you know
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I'd like to bump up to 32 gigs or
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something like that just in case I want
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to store a movie or two for a temporary
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bit of time but you know I'm a cloud
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computing guy I like Google Drive I I
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try to keep everything in the cloud as
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as much as I can so the hard drive
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doesn't bother me that much but i' would
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love to see an upgraded screen um and
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something that's really nice and that
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that that really is kind of striking um
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and the touchscreen thing as Google U uh
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really um makes Chrome OS more touch
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optimized I I'll be wanting a
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touchscreen as well cuz it's nice in
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some in some scenarios but again I had
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the c720p and barely ever touched the
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screen not cuz I didn't remember it was
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touch it just it didn't seem like
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something I needed to use use on most on
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most days um and then I would like to
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see a better front-facing camera I'd
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like to see something like a a 3 or 5
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megapixel camera on the front um with
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some with some nice Focus uh to kind of
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help those Google Hangouts because I do
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use it for Hangouts not all the time but
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but pretty often um other than that um
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guys I have to say I I I give it my uh
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full approval uh if you're if you've
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been looking at this and thinking I'm
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not really sure you're on the fence it's
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a great Chromebook probably one of the
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best ones available right now uh the
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only one I would slightly I mean and I'm
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talking slightly edged out with is hp14
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and and again like I've said a couple
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times in this I'm nitpicking um those
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are small details and so um if you're
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thinking about it go for it it's a it's
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a great device um and I don't think I
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don't think you're going to be
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disappointed with it at all so um if you
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have any questions hit me up in the
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comments hit me up on Google+ um Chrome
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unboxed on Google+ also uh just Robbie
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Payne on Google+ either one of those
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I'll answer any questions that you might
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have uh keep it tuned here you'll also
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see an hp1 14 versus Toshiba Chromebook
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video um there's not again a whole lot
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of differences but at least you can kind
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of see them side by side and get a feel
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and and you can probably tell from this
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review um my money is with the hp14
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still I haven't had anything come by
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that has wed me enough to get rid of it
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so um but that being said I really
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really do enjoy the Toshiba Chromebook
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and it's a it's a great device uh it's a
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great place to put your money I think
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right now in the world of Chromebooks so
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