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hey folks Robbie Pay Here Again with
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chrome unboxed today doing a side
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by-side comparison of the HP Chromebook
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14 and the Toshiba
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Chromebook Toshiba Chromebook the one
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here on the right uh if those of you who
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don't know you can watch the full review
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also on the channel so you can uh be
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awesome if you like this video you can
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also subscribe and see all the other
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Chromebook comparisons and reviews there
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but you'll see that there's a full
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review up of of that device and the hp14
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so you can really get down uh into more
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detail with each
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one the Toshiba is a 13.3 in device
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versus the 14in and so probably on the
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camera you can see a slight bit of
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difference uh between the two screen
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sizes but uh it's it's pretty negligible
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and overall even looking through the
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camera lens right now you can tell uh
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the the difference in the devices is
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pretty negligible and one of the things
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you're going to notice in this um side
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by-side comparison will probably be
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shorter than some of the other ones as
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the Toshiba review is also shorter than
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some of the other reviews because what
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we're starting to run into here uh
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is a repetition um in Chromebooks and so
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um one of the best things about
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Chromebooks is the fact they're all
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running the same OS I just got the
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update on both of these guys today so
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they're both running Chrome 33 stable um
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and and it's the exact same thing the
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The Experience across the board is
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always the same I can grab my wife's
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Samsung Chromebook I can uh log into any
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Chromebook I get and get the same
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experience as far as the operating
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system and so that's that's a huge Boon
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and an awesome part of uh being a Chrome
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OS user however when it comes down to
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reviewing and and and side by-side
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comparisons and things like this there's
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really not a ton of differences to deal
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with and so I don't want to waste a lot
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of your time uh going into detail about
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a bunch of things that we've talked
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about a hundred other times but I want
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to point out some of the usage
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differences that I found and over the
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last couple uh about 10 days I used the
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Toshiba as my primary working device and
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what I do is uh website design so coding
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and you know basic coding CSS HTML 5 uh
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PHP that kind of stuff uh nothing too
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intense uh most of the things I do live
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on the web so Chromebooks work really
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well for me um but at the same time I'm
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going to have five to seven eight tabs
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open at a time I also dual boot uh into
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uh umuntu so that I can have such right
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here I've got filezilla open um having
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filezilla and inkscape and in Buu so I'm
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not running a ton of stuff in that
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secondary uh desktop so I just wanted to
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give you kind of my usage pattern so if
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you're somebody who really wants to boot
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into Bo and and run tons of stuff um
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take take what I'm saying with a grain
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of salt and vice versa if you're someone
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who stays in Chrome and has two tabs
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open and that's about it you know take
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that with a grain of salt as well
2:59
because I usually have five to seven
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tabs open I have uh uh maybe an image
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editor which I i' i' found and really
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loved uh this little guy here it's pixel
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or touchup um just you know for resizing
3:14
editing photos cropping them all that
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kind of quick stuff that that I need to
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do a lot because I'm dealing with images
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on websites a lot so I need to deal with
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uh specific ratios and everything I have
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that open usually have Google music or
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Spotify running in the background
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casting up to a chomecast has to play
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the music and so that's kind of my uh my
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scope as far as work goes that being
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said that amount of of work so like I
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said five to seven tabs a couple other
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programs in the background and probably
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Ubuntu running uh with inkscape and
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filezilla going uh on on the other side
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of things I did not run into any issues
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whatsoever with the two gigs um of of
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RAM on the Toshiba from those of you who
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haven't seen the reviews or have
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forgotten the main difference uh in in
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these two guys really comes down to this
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one has two gigs of ram versus the four
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gigs in this one this one does have the
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LTE uh equipped radio in it as well or
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I'm sorry not LTE uh it's HSPA plus uh
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4G from T-Mobile which comes in handy in
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pinches I'm telling you it just it
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really has has saved my butt a couple
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times however um that really is the only
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Hardware difference we're looking at
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here um as you can see from the video
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right now the screens are really really
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similar I'd give a slight nod I I'm
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saying a really slight nod to the
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Toshiba Chromebook on the screen uh a
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it's a little bit smaller so the pixels
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are denser uh and B the contrast ratio
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is a little better I don't know how well
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you can tell that on the camera uh but
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the contrast ratio definitely is better
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over here so the darks look a little
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darker while the brights look a little
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brighter and so um I can tell that just
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looking at them right here if I glance
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back and forth I see it uh spending time
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in front for the day no no real issue
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same thing goes with the battery life
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we're seeing a lot of ilarities here as
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well uh we're showing almost 9 hours
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left on a full charge and over here 7
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and 1/2 hours left on a full charge keep
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in mind I do have utu running over here
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and I actually had just pulled this off
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the charger and it's been I've been
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using it so it's probably basing that on
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being used whereas this guy was asleep I
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just updated him and he was charged so
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um but realistically 8 to 9 hours on
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both of these machines pretty doable
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pretty normal battery life between the
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two so let's talk talk about Hardware uh
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cuz really when Chrome we talk about
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Chromebooks that's really the
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differentiating factor cuz internally
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they're both the Haswell 29 55 uh U and
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so they're they're both running the
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Haswell Celeron uh processor uh we have
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the difference in the ram obviously
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that's different but other than that the
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internal part is is pretty much the same
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so I'm not going to get into running a
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bunch of stuff on them because they both
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run it great uh they both they both load
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websites identically well they uh so you
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can see those things in the individual
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reviews I don't want to spend time uh
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doing those things in this particular
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comparison really want to talk about
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Hardware cuz right now that's the
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differentiator when it comes to
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Chromebooks that's the way that uh
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hardore manufacturers can really say hey
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look I want to make something awesome
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and and this is where I will put my uh
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my hope in the fact that we're going to
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see a mid-range Chromebook sometime this
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year I'm really hoping I'm I got my
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fingers crossed for the new Samsung or
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whatever Asus has coming down the pipe
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or Lenovo one of these companies I'm
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waiting to see a device that that Falls
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in that $400 to $5500 range and says you
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know what we're not going to compromise
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on any of the external hardware so we're
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going to have an awesome keyboard we're
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going to have awesome trackpad you're
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going to have an IPS panel it's going to
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be better than 1366 X 768 which is what
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we see on everything by the way is this
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is what we see on both of these guys
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we're going to give you a 3 or four
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megapixel front-facing or 5 megapixel
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front-facing camera so your your
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Hangouts look amazing rather than the
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720p uh front-facing cameras we get on
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both of these guys and so again right
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now there's just this kind of
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homogeneous thing going on with
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Chromebooks and hopefully that's going
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to be broken up pretty soon um we just
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see a lot of the same stuff a lot of the
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same performance and the performance has
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been good these Haswell devices perform
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great uh both of these guys perform
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really really really well I really enjoy
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them and as I said a lot of people have
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been asking does the 2 gig of RAM hinder
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you on the Toshiba and I would have to
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honestly say I thought it was going to
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and it doesn't um you can look I have a
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video on my feed that talks about uh the
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2 gig uh to 4 gig comparison and I
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really put some uh put some stress on
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the machines I was using an Acer c720p
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at the time and so I really put some
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stress on them and pushed them harder
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than I normally do in a day's work and
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yeah you can see some differences at
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that point but for me as I I kind of
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laid out my work um my my normal work
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case uh for me it didn't really make
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that much of a difference so uh I wanted
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to start with the the Chromebooks open
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and um so we could kind of talk about
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the similarities I want to talk about a
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few of the differences and again uh
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coming back to this point again the
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differences really end up being in a
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build quality um and so what we see now
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again I made a comment before about the
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screens slight nod to the Toshiba uh
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front facing cameras have been identical
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um you know very usable looks good uh
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works for Hangouts I had a couple
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Hangouts actually on the Toshiba as I
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was working with it no problems
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whatsoever it was great um when we talk
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about keyboards um again this is this is
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a thing and you'll hear this across all
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my videos I haven't really been that
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disappointed in any Chromebook keyboard
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at this point it's something it seems
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like manufacturers have just kind of
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gotten a hold of and and really nailed I
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had a lot of Windows uh notebooks that I
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went through that really had crummy
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keyboards and it was staggering cuz I
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was paying 7 $8 $900 for these things
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and the keyboards are just terrible and
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so I don't know what was going on with
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that but uh Chromebooks across the board
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have just had good keyboards uh I don't
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have an issue uh with key travel I don't
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have any issues with uh mistyping and
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everything like that so travel across
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both of these is very similar uh the the
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the keys um have a nice feel to them
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slightly
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texturized um it and it types well um
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and it's spacious you know 13.3 in form
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factor gives you plenty of room uh
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without squashing the keyboard matter of
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fact if you're if you're looking at both
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of these you see a lot of the same
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amount of workspace here and so for me
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uh whether you know 14 versus
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13.3 I didn't see a pro or a con in
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either one I like the fact and we'll get
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to it in a second that the Toshiba is a
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lighter because of its smaller size but
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other than that there's really no big
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deal there uh both of them have the kind
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of anti um anti-fingerprint finish on
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them this one over here has got a smooth
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uh a smooth finish to it but it doesn't
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pick up fingerprints and you can see me
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kind of wiping off some of the just
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stuff that collects on keyboards uh uh
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and workstations over time but uh
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ultimately neither one of them really
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collect fingerprints this one has a
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completely matte finish around here so
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is this one uh you get this kind of
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aluminum
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uh texture plastic here definitely
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plastic you can definitely tell that but
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it looks nice it's a handsome looking
10:07
computer um and both of them are they
10:10
both goodlooking goodlooking uh
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Chromebooks trackpads on both almost the
10:15
exact same size almost the exact same
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layout I will say I have to still give
10:19
the nod to the HP uh on this and that's
10:23
uh and and again just like with the uh
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um the screen I'm I'm talking talking
10:29
about a slight nod um it's not much but
10:32
the HP seems to be a bit more
10:35
responsive
10:37
um and yeah it's doing just fine no no
10:39
hard touching here it's it's pretty easy
10:42
uh and maybe part of that is in in part
10:45
due to uh the trackpad over here has a
10:48
slightly slightly textured feeling to it
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and very very very little um but there's
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a slightly textured feeling to it let's
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load up something we'll go to Google
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Plus that
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um just to show you both of them load
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the render the page the exact same
11:05
amount of time so um and that's not a
11:09
shock and so once we get loaded up here
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okay now we're loaded you can see it's
11:15
nice and responsive the two finger
11:17
scroll you're going to see the same
11:18
behavior over
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here nice and responsive with the two
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finger scroll so um and three fingers up
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and down gives you your overview mode
11:32
and I had some problems with the Acer
11:34
C720 with this you know it would just do
11:36
it sometimes and not others no problems
11:38
with the three finger swipes and I know
11:39
that's part ofly is uh due to the the
11:43
sensitivity on the touchpads so other
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than the fact that this one's a little
11:46
bit uh texturized and this one's really
11:49
really smooth very similar um I did
11:52
every once in a while I noticed a
11:54
sensitivity issue like trying to do the
11:55
three or three finger swipe between tabs
11:58
um and it's working perfectly now like I
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said it was a few times um no issues
12:05
there and then and I never have any
12:06
issues on the hp14 with that either so
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again keyboards kind of a wash uh slight
12:13
Edge to the trackpad over here slight
12:16
Edge to the display over here um the
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front-facing displays again a wash so um
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and and again I'm not going to get into
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the 2 gig versus 4 gigs of RAM uh for my
12:27
use case again surprised that it didn't
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affect me really at all I didn't feel
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like I had to um close things down and
12:34
really manage anything over on the 14 I
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don't think about it ever and so I
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figured I would run into some stuff on
12:39
the on the toiba and I did not so we're
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going to close them and take a look
12:43
around the hardware to kind of finish
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this thing
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out now from the top you can kind of see
12:49
um where the size difference starts to
12:50
come in and we're talking pretty minimal
12:53
amounts here I'm going Place one on top
12:56
of the other
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so that that's kind of what you're
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looking at very very minimal uh when it
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comes to uh size difference the the big
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difference I felt between the two is
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weight um and you can really feel that
13:12
when you pick them up with one hand the
13:14
weight of the Toshiba is so much lighter
13:16
uh feeling uh versus the HP they both
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have a nice solid build to them there's
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not a lot of creaking and clacking um
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there's a little wiggle Little Bend with
13:25
the Toshiba um with the HP uh not really
13:29
much at all um pretty nice and
13:31
firm um let's take a quick view around
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the sides you get a couple USB 3.0 ports
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uh combo headphone microphone Jack HDMI
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out nothing back here except some fans
13:42
SD uh charging slot Kensington lot and
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then the bottom uh and the in the Hole
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uh of the Toshiba is covered in these
13:50
little dimples and so it has a texture
13:52
to it I'm not a fan I I don't like it um
13:55
I don't hate it but I really don't like
13:58
it I really like the texture they used
13:59
on the inside uh kind of just that uh
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matte uh aluminum like finish uh that
14:06
was that was pretty nice I'm not a huge
14:07
fan of the the the dimples on the
14:10
outside part or the bottom um and then
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you know four rubber feet speakers on
14:15
both are plenty loud we'll come back to
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that in just a minute um but overall the
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the device feels good it's pretty slim
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um when we're talking about laptops so
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it has a it it has a nice profile it
14:28
looks good on the T all that kind of
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stuff um the only the cheapest part I
14:33
felt about this guy is right back in
14:35
here um you see quite a bit of give
14:39
there and when the device is actually
14:40
open I can do that back here it really
14:44
just has
14:46
this really cheap feel back here um and
14:50
and the reason I felt that a lot was
14:51
when closing it and getting my fingers
14:53
accidentally up under this you can see
14:55
how much play that has uh it's kind of
14:57
cheap feeling but the hinges feel fine
14:59
so um I I don't again these I'm
15:02
nitpicking here really nitpicking uh we
15:05
come to the HP and you've seen this guy
15:08
in many videos he has stuck with me
15:09
through all my Chromebooks um we have
15:12
the 3.0 um uh USBS here HDMI combo Jack
15:17
Kensington lock uh and then you get an
15:19
additional 2.0 USB then your SIM card
15:23
slot SD card slot charging um nothing
15:26
across the back kind of a slick little
15:29
lip that comes out hold it that way
15:32
right there very reminiscent of the HP
15:34
Envy line of notebooks um nothing across
15:37
the front
15:38
really um fans feet you know speaker
15:42
grills you know Common Fair here and
15:45
because of the way the hinge is built as
15:46
one piece you get a lot more solidarity
15:49
here uh than you do with the Toshiba um
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it again it does not mean that either
15:53
one is better than the other um that
15:55
that really doesn't affect anything
15:59
so as I'm going to give you a side by
16:03
side with the speakers real quick um if
16:08
I had to well I do have to I have to
16:09
choose which one I want to keep I can't
16:11
just keep every Chromebook um I'm still
16:15
going to keep my HP um that's the way it
16:18
is uh like I said
16:21
the the pros and the cons of the two um
16:26
they really kind of outweigh one another
16:28
and so it's not as if the HP is
16:30
overwhelmingly better than the Toshiba
16:32
it really isn't that and so you may be
16:34
looking at these and going well I don't
16:36
like the colors of the HP I don't want
16:38
to deal with a white laptop I want I
16:40
like the silver and black MacBook esque
16:44
look hey go for the Toshiba I I really
16:47
don't have anything bad to say about it
16:50
to be honest with you
16:52
um find something it's got a little
17:01
but I do have to say
17:03
I uh really really really enjoy uh the
17:07
HP and people in in videos before have
17:10
said oh you know this guy really HP wins
17:12
everything he loves it but I do I mean I
17:15
I if the day comes that I review a
17:18
Chromebook and I keep it and sell my HP
17:21
that that'll be the sign that you know
17:22
that I think it's a better device um but
17:24
for right now I I really really like the
17:27
HP um um overall but I really enjoyed
17:31
the Toshiba 13 as well so um again if I
17:35
had if I have to choose and I do have to
17:36
choose I'm keeping the hp14 that again
17:39
is not to say don't buy the Toshiba it's
17:41
a piece of junk it's it's a decent
17:43
Chromebook um and and this particular
17:46
model with 4 gigs and the and the HSPA
17:48
plus radios is 350 and this one's uh 279
17:52
so there's a bit of price cap there as
17:54
well so those things to consider if you
17:57
knock off 70 bucks and that makes a big
17:58
difference for you then don't feel bad
18:01
at all about getting the Toshiba so
18:02
here's the
18:03
HP let's
18:06
crank nice and
18:09
Tiny But loud so plenty of plenty of of
18:13
volume um the laptop speaker
18:25
so definitely have to give the loudness
18:27
and the fullness of the speakers to the
18:30
Toshiba on this
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[Music]
18:33
so I don't know how often you're going
18:35
to be listening to music straight from
18:36
your laptop but Toshiba has a little bit
18:39
better speakers in my opinion a little
18:40
bit Fuller sound and definitely a little
18:42
bit louder uh neither one of them
18:44
distorts at high volume so it's pretty
18:45
cool on both um again uh this is a tough
18:49
one it's it's tough and it's getting to
18:50
that point until we see some Hardware
18:52
manufacturers really decide to
18:53
differentiate themselves in some way uh
18:56
heard IPS panel better speakers
18:59
um that really is the big one for me um
19:02
because everything else is great about
19:04
Chromebooks uh I've said 100 times if I
19:07
could get this device right here with an
19:09
IPS display you know at I don't know at
19:13
uh 1,600 by 900 I I don't think I could
19:17
be satisfied anymore with anything else
19:19
I love everything else about it um so
19:23
that being said guys just about a tie
19:25
between these two but I'm going to go
19:27
with hp1 14 and and um and hopefully
19:30
this has helped some of you make a
19:31
decision I've gotten some personal
19:33
messages saying that you're waiting to
19:34
see um I I can fully say uh the Toshiba
19:37
is a great device and so if you're
19:39
looking at it you like the way it looks
19:41
you like Toshiba um you like I don't
19:43
know I don't know what else defines it
19:45
other than those things or you hate HP
19:47
or something like that hey go for it
19:50
it's a it's a great device um I would
19:52
think I've I've seen online that they
19:54
have opened it up and there are there's
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room for more RAM not user installable
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Ram but there's room for the
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manufacturer to put more RAM in there so
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heck we might see
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a a model with some Wireless
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connectivity and more RAM come out for a
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little bit more money so uh who knows I
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haven't seen anything about that
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specifically but we got a lot more stuff
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coming this year many more Chromebooks
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many more reviews soon as I get the Asus
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Chrome box going to review that guy as
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well so uh excited about 2014 excited
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about what's happening in Chromebooks in
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