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here at chrome unboxed we spend a lot of
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time reviewing and unboxing devices we
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spend a lot of time with different
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i specifically spend a lot of time
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jumping between one chromebook to the
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in order to formulate an opinion to be
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able to give you a review and say this
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this is bad you should buy this you
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should skip this all that kind of stuff
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and while we talk about software and
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tips and tricks and those kind of things
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as well one thing i've realized i don't
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spend a lot of time talking to you all
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is what it is that's in my bag between
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all of those times so when i'm not
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reviewing a device to
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tell you whether it's good or not what
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do i go to what do i prefer
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and surprisingly that chromebook
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actually doesn't change out that
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frequently and i've only had a few
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chromebooks that actually live in my bag
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and those have mostly been google
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devices up until just about a month ago
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one of the main reasons they've always
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been google devices is the fact that
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those chromebooks so i'm talking like
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and not the pixel slate so much but the
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just deliver this really nice overall
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experience and at the end of the day
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there's new stuff that shows up with
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different chromebooks and those things
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are exciting and i like them and it may
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be a flashy screen or a fingerprint
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scanner or some sort of pen input or
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that it's fun to get excited about for a
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little bit but when it comes down to
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having to put my hands on the device and
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every single day like in the middle of
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tended to like google's devices better i
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liked what they offered
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from a holistic package and what it just
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felt like to use those devices on a
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however that has changed and while we're
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still waiting and wondering whether or
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not google is going to give us a new
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pixel book device of any sort this year
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there's a device that's come along that
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has really just captured my attention
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and has been one that i want to go back
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over and over again and it's the acer
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713 and there's a few reasons why we've
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done a review on this device we've
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already spent time going through all the
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bits and pieces that's not what we're
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doing here and i don't want to do that
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this is more of hey here's what it is
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about this device that delivers an
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is worth me going back to regardless of
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how many devices i review so what is it
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that makes for a good
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experience that i'm going to go back to
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well for me it starts on the 713 with
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there's something about a 3x2 aspect
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it's made me love devices like the
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samsung chromebook pro the hp x2 the
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pixel book the pixel slate and i wished
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i had it on the pixelbook go
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i just like it for web content i like
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the extra height on the screen and
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overall it just makes the device feel
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like i've got a larger surface to work
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ultimately when you measure diagonally
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if you get a more square
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aspect ratio on your screen you do
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actually get more inches to work with on
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the screen as far as real estate goes
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the 13.5 inch 3x2 high res display that
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the 713 it's just awesome it's bright
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it's vibrant it has awesome viewing
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angles i feel like i've got so much
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space to work from whether i'm in my lap
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at a table or at the desk
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and it is versatile comfortable to use
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and i absolutely love that part of this
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second up and i harp on this all the
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time the input methods on the device
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they don't have to be the absolute best
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i've ever used i just need to be
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solid i need to not think about oh god
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that keyboard i miss this key all the
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time or i screw up this that or the
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other or i can't see it in the dark
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because it's not backlit
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and with the trackpad it doesn't need to
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be flopping around all over the place
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and it needs to stay smooth
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and just work the way it's supposed to
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and both of those things are true with
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the 713. again they were true with
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pixel books pixelbook go pixel slate and
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all that stuff and it's part of what
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attracted me back to them because it's
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that make for a great chrome os
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experience because when you get the
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looking awesome and your input method's
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you've got the makings of just a great
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finally i think performance is probably
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maybe not quite as important as like the
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keyboard trackpad and screen but but
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really really close because ultimately
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you don't want a device that's slow
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and feel sluggish so that you have to
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worry about whether or not it's going to
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run this particular linux app or if i
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can try this on it or do that on it
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i just i just need it to perform and the
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that comes in this device the 713 paired
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up with eight gigs of ram
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and 128 gigs of nvme storage i mean
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absolutely flies and it does so without
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costing you over a thousand dollars it's
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it's five hundred and thirty dollars
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right now as we're filming this it's
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been on sale twice already and so
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i think this is gonna be a five to six
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hundred dollar chromebook that performs
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like a thousand dollar chromebook has
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beautiful screen has a great keyboard
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and all aluminum build i haven't even
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talked about the fact that you know it's
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mil-spec that's just an
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added bonus i don't have to worry about
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the fact that it's in my bag and i'm
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taking it out it can get beat up it can
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and it costs way less than what it feels
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like it should and all of that stuff
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just kind of comes together
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to keep drawing me back to this
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particular chromebook while
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the google made chromebooks i think
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pulled me in because of their design
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aesthetic and the way that they
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felt under the hand the 713 pulls me in
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it's a device i don't have to worry
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about i don't have to think about when i
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pull it in and out of my bag i don't
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have to think about it when i leave it
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out at the house whether or not the
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kids might knock it off the couch or
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something and i don't have to think that
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1200 into this premium chromebook i've
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put 530 dollars into this device and
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while i don't want to lose that money
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i don't have to worry about it because
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it's mil-spec rated and it brings to the
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table all the stuff i want
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great performance great keyboard great
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trackpad and a great screen
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and a metal body and i just think acer
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has done such an awesome job with this
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putting together the right pieces at the
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right time at the right price
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to make a chromebook that for me has
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become absolutely my everyday carry and
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for the foreseeable future it's probably
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going to be the one that i keep picking
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and putting in my bag whenever all the
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reviews are done and all the dust
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settles but guys that's it for this one
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