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In this latest video, I get my hands on the newest Chromebook to join the lineup: the Toshiba Chromebook. Enjoy!
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hey folks Robbie Payne here again with
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chrome unbox coming at you today with an
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unboxing of the new Toshiba Chromebook
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now for those of you who know this is a
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13.3 inch device made by Toshiba
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um due out in the next couple weeks uh
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from what it was said online Amazon
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shipped me mine a little bit early so
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not going to complain at all there I'm
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gonna go and get it unboxed today for
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you get a quick Hands-On quick initial
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Impressions and then obviously spend a
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little bit of time with the device and
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give you my overall Impressions within a
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week or so of using it as my primary
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work device so without any further Ado
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let's go ahead and get into this bad boy
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thank you
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all right decently attractive packaging
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Chromebooks some of them have had iffy
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packaging probably the best packaging
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most uh unique packaging has been the HP
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11. and a lot of it's kind of boring so
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this one
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pretty decent pretty decent box layout
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and really looks on the on the box a lot
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like the Samsung Series 3 in some ways
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the hinge obviously is different and the
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overall design of this guy is going to
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be quite different anyway
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look for in the next couple weeks
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um a we'll have a side-by-side
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comparison with this and my HP 14 that
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so far every time I've put another
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Chromebook up against it's always come
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out the uh the Victor at least in my
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opinion I really enjoy that machine as a
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lot of you who've watched my videos have
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probably noticed
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um and figures
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you think by this time I would be really
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good at doing this but I try not to tear
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the boxes up because normally they're
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going to go back
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all right and we've got some normal
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Chrome quick start guides I always think
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these are funny
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um shouldn't it just be like one picture
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open it turn it on it's a Chromebook
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it's done
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uh we've got the ball jock here and I
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might have to plug this in most of the
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ones yeah it's a plug-in power up get
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ready to enjoy your Chromebook
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um uh somebody I cannot remember it so
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forgive me if you're watching this video
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and you made the comment I cannot think
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off the top of my head but somebody in
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one of the other videos commented uh
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about the uh the fact that they're
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shipped this way and they need to be
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plugged in I don't even remember the
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reasoning but it seemed pretty legit
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when he said it so um
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if anybody else wants to chime in in the
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comments and let me know why it is they
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do this I don't know for sure so I don't
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want to say something that's not correct
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but I know every Chromebook I've had
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shipped to me as soon as I open up I
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always have to plug it in to get it to
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boot up and that's not because it's dead
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it actually has plenty of battery
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all right get these guys off here
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this plastic sheath there
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kind of the thin cloth that's
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interesting I just wrapped it around the
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screen
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so I'll pull that off there
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and here we are
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gonna get this box and all this stuff
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out of the way
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foreign
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we'll go over the quick specs
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much like most of the Chromebooks
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that are at right now this guy's
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sporting the Haswell 29.95
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um
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CPU and so we're expecting awesome
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battery life just like every other
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Haswell toting Chromebook also expecting
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very good performance this device does
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have two gigs of RAM and I did a video
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before you can subscribe to the channel
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and check it out I did a video
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comparison comparing uh video comparison
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comparing multiple Chromebooks with two
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and four gigs of RAM respectively and
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kind of seeing how they fared against
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each other
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um and to be honest I didn't see a huge
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difference in performance overall as the
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as the tasks increase obviously you're
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running some issues there but
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um
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there was a conversation that got
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started around that video on Google Plus
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and and the end I'll be all of the
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conversation was
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if you know you have two gigs of RAM you
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know deal with it accordingly know that
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you're not going to be able to have 20
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tabs open and I think that's good advice
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um
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and just knowing the limitations of your
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of your device that you're using and so
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the two gig yes you're not gonna be able
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to do as many things at one time and it
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does get hampered a little bit with uh
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Ubuntu running on the back end I will
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install Ubuntu on this because I need it
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for work so if I'm going to use this as
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my work PC or shoot excuse me is my work
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Chromebook
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um I will have to have Ubuntu running
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just for inkscape specifically so
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I will be able to give you real world
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use on a day-to-day basis of how that
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2gig is or is not affecting me I'm
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tending to think it's not going to
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affect me that bad I don't usually have
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that many tabs open so it shouldn't
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affect me too much quick tour of the
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hardware before I plug this guy in and
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that gets really awkward
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on the top we kind of have this uh
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pattern you can kind of see little bitty
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dots I don't know if you can see that
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see if it'll focus
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kind of sort of you can see that see
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that pattern there that is not just a
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pattern in the material it's actually a
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it's got some some dimples to it
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same thing on the bottom uh we've got
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the four to four soft touch foot feet I
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can't speak tonight uh we've got the
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stereo speakers down here and screws
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obviously to take the bottom panel off
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I'm sure there will be quite a few
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people uh getting into this guy and
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seeing what is and is not replaceable I
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will not do this as it is a review unit
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and I don't want to avoid the warranty
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and avoid my ability to return it
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um and who knows it may win me over them
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it may become my new Chromebook we'll
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see we've got some fan slots back here
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on the back over on the side full size
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SD card slot you have charging port
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Kensington lock
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on the other side two USB 3.0 and they
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are blue so you know for sure that they
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are 3.0 uh we've got the earphone
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microphone combination Jack we've got
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the HDMI out and that's it
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nothing that's uh standing out or crazy
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looking about it it's Sleek looking
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feels nice and firm no no creakiness
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it's not as heavy as my HP for sure but
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it's not light not super duper light I
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want to say it comes in around three
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pounds so pretty normal for something
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the size and and honestly the pictures
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and stuff I don't want to make it feel
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like it's going to be a little thicker
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it does it casts a nice Sleek profile I
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don't know if that's really catching it
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but it feels nice and Sleek uh the one
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thing I saw somebody do with it which
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I'm a complete sucker for is lift the
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lid with one finger and we'll see if
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nope not going to do that maybe once it
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gets worked in it will do just that it
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doesn't look like it maybe that wasn't a
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final build I'm a complete sucker for
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devices where you can lift it up with
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one finger and not have to touch the
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bottom of the of the device in order to
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do that look at this I made all that
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commotion about needing to plug it in
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even got my my plug ready to plug in and
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it didn't need it so
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who knows perhaps it's uh it's a
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completely random thing
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so let me get on the Wi-Fi here I will
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say the trackpad has a
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um
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I'm trying to think what to compare this
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to
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um
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kind of the feeling when you uh you have
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safety bars like in a restroom or
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something and they kind of have that
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slightly grippy stainless steel
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I don't know what this feels like and
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the rest of it has this matte finish not
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going to collect a single fingerprint
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which is really really awesome and it
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almost it it comes off
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somewhat like aluminum definitely not
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aluminum
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definitely doesn't have that cold
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aluminum feel I'll tell you
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it's it's nice and firm there's not a
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lot of give a little bit there
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a little bit on the back side there
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other than that when you're ever going
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to be pushing up there probably never
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other than that it's got a real good
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solid feel to it
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not a lot of creaking so that's good
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we'll deal with some typing stuff here
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in a minute and
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let me get logged in here and now we'll
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talk about some other things a nice
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quiet track pad I appreciate that if
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you've watched my other videos you've
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heard me harp about that
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let's go somehow changed
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hmm
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I may have to cut away and come back
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because I don't know what the heck I
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just did somehow change the language and
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I
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language I'm close to understanding
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God for just a little bit of English in
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parentheses here we go
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okay it's checking for system update so
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it may uh perhaps update to the latest
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version of Chrome I've had some that do
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this and some that don't so we'll see
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what exactly happens here if it does
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we'll cut away and come back
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yeah but I must say right out of the
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gate the likeness to a MacBook Air
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um pretty heavy I'm gonna have somebody
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walking by it's probably going to think
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you're using a MacBook Air the screen I
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don't know if I can adjust yeah it's
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gonna let me do that so uh pretty
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decently bright I'm gonna um right
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underneath the fluorescent light which
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is not the greatest light in the world
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to be looking at stuff in but it does
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give you a good idea of how to glare and
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all that kind of stuff it's going to be
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and it's not terrible
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um
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do get the polarization
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forward
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way back if you'll get a little bit
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there
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um left or right viewing angles are
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pretty good though see if we can catch
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that on here
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see a little bit of that polarization
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trying to keep it on angle here
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just a little bit and honestly it looks
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like it's polarizing a little bit more
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on camera
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yes I mean you get 45 degrees before you
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notice anything and then you do get some
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polarization so
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um yeah TN panels what are you gonna do
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hopefully what we're hearing from the
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rumors on the Samsung Chromebook the
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series 3 refresh looks like they're
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really going to focus on the screen and
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uh the Lenovo
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adds just an education sector for right
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now but the Lenovo Yoga is going to
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actually have an IPS panel on it so I'm
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really looking forward to something with
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Haswell and IPS and four gigs of RAM
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those three things together I think
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would that would sell me completely but
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this display looks nice
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it's it's really difficult for me to
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tell until I have it literally side by
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side with the HP instead of trying to
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think from memory but it looks it looks
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really good the contrast looks good on
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it
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um but it seems to be the case when I
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open up a Chromebook and I don't have
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anything to compare it to much like if
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you have a television and you don't have
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anything to compare it to right side by
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side it's it's honestly hard to make
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that call
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um there's really nothing else that sets
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this guy apart other than the fact that
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you have a 13.3 inch screen here and in
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the review I'll deal with the the webcam
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I'm not off the top of my head exactly
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sure I think it's a 720p front-facing
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camera I'll talk about that at more at
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length in the review but I have to say
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the the travel and the keys very good
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trackpad feels great it really does I
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mean the the tactile finish on there is
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not off-putting at all and uh
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hopefully we're resetting with the
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newest version of Chrome some of the
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some of the updates in the later
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versions of chrome also help the
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trackpad be even better than it's been
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in the past versions other than that if
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you're watching this you 've probably
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been introduced to Chromebooks at some
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point in time
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you know there's not much different in
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this in any other Chromebook so there's
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not a lot more to say other than the
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fact that the device looks really
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attractive and it feels good
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um all the all the pieces feel nice it
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feels well put together
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it doesn't feel like an afterthought
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device
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trackpad feels great it's nice and roomy
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I won't know specifically how good the
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trackpad is until I've used it for an
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extended period of time it's sometimes
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hard to tell but some of those three
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finger swipes I use a lot of that stuff
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now so it'll be nice to see those things
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in action let me type in my
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username and password Here
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yeah I like the keyboard a lot
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really quiet too
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and yeah here we go up and running so
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there's a good starting guide
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uh
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so yeah that's about it for right now as
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it's kind of moving all my settings in
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it'll be choking up on some stuff here
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for a few minutes but overall like I
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said it feels great keyboard feels good
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trackpad feels really good screen looks
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nice not the brightest thing in the
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world oh there we go yeah there's some
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extra brightness you know it's it's
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fighting off clear pretty well in here
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for a dark background
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we'll see we'll see we'll look into more
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things like battery life front-facing
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camera the two Giga Ram performance I
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know a lot of people are saying hey if
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you got two gigs just use less resources
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but
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um it would be a different story for me
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if if Toshiba said hey here's a two gig
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and if you want four gig you can't get
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it in stores but you can order it we can
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get you four gigs in there or here's a
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slot where you can add some Ram uh some
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of those things would be cool and
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hopefully we'll see some of those things
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as well in future Chromebooks
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um you know nobody really wants to tear
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it apart and go crazy with it but it'd
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be nice to be able to add solid state
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storage and RAM those two things would
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be nice and you could kind of upgrade as
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you want to and then they could really
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focus on putting some money into a
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better display because it really feels
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like the last few uh Chromebooks that
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have come out keyboards really across
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the board it's just been a really good
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I've really enjoyed them uh and track
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pads are pretty good the Acer one is a
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little hit and miss and so I don't want
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to I don't want to say that this
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trackpad's great just because it feels
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good off the off the Jump but
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looking forward to really getting my
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hands on this guy for a little while is
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that it's an attractive Chromebook look
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it's lighter than the HP it's a little
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bit smaller but that looks like a nice
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big fat bit of screen real estate to
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work from on a daily basis so who knows
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this guy could become my new daily
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driver we'll see there'll be much more
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coming in the next week to 10 days
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before I got to send this guy back I'll
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have a full review up we'll have it
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against the HP 14 again which for my for
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my money is the best Chromebook on the
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market right now and lots more coverage
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coming thanks for uh thanks for watching
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coverage so thank you guys all for
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watching the videos I hope you've
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enjoyed this like I said tune back in in
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just uh a few days and we'll see a full
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review up of this guy after some time
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spent with it thanks again we'll see you
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next time
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