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have you ever picked up an accessory and
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will this work with my chromebook well
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i've told people for years if you wonder
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if it works on a chromebook just
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plug it into a chromebook and see a lot
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of stuff actually does but
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google's taking this a step further and
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works with chromebook initiative that
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aims to help users understand
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which peripherals have been tested and
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certified to work seamlessly on their
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let's check it out and test some of this
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but before we get into all that a big
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shout out and thanks to western digital
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for sponsoring this video
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and providing a handful of certified
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works with chromebook devices for us to
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test and show you later in this video
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they've even provided a few of these for
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us to give away so make sure you stick
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around to the end to get details on how
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you can get entered to win from the time
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that i began using chromebooks i have
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long been a fan of saying to other
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will this work on a chromebook sure yeah
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just plug it in and see and honestly
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about six to seven times out of ten it
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seems like that's just the case you can
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just plug stuff into a chromebook and it
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that's not true across the board not
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everything just works on a chromebook
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and for a lot of users especially new
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users coming into the chrome os
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it may not be quite as clear as it feels
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like it should be which peripheral
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and won't work on your chromebook and so
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google has come up with this new
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initiative that's launched in the past
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works with chromebook and it does
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exactly what you would think it does
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these certified peripherals things like
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storage devices charging bricks
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cables docks mice keyboards are tested
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and proven to meet google's own
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chromebook compatibility standards and
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they're sold at lots of different stores
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what we're going to end up seeing is a
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bunch of accessories that have a sticker
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on them that makes it very clear to end
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that they're built to work with their
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chromebook and sure these accessories
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will work with other things too
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but there's just this assurance that
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they'll function properly the way you
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expect the minute you plug them into
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your chromebook so now that you know
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what works with chromebook is
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and to be looking for it on shelves at
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best buys and walmarts and those kind of
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stores when you're out picking up
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let's actually take a handful of these
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things that are already tested
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already certified to meet the standards
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google is set and just
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see how they do all these devices
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works with chromebook sticker on the
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outside of the box so
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we're just going to start plugging some
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of this stuff in so you can see how
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quickly and how seamlessly these types
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of accessories work with a chromebook
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okay so here's how we're going to do
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this a little bit kind of unboxing style
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we actually have three different
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chromebooks here so we wanted to make
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the fact that you know it doesn't matter
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what type of chromebook or what
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if it works with chromebook it works
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with chromebook so i've got the acer
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a 10th gen intel processor
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i've got the pixelbook go which is an
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intel processor and then we've got the
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lenovo c13 thinkpad yoga
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which is one of the newer amd ryzen
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processors so we've got a nice little
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assortment of devices here and we've got
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a handful of accessories
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um so first up we've got the wd my
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and you can see right on the outside
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they've affixed the sticker here
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uh kind of as a after thought kind of
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thing like hey we got it tested we got
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slap the sticker on but then you've got
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devices like this cable matters
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that instead of having a sticker affixed
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to it it's part of the packaging like
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this is something they thought about
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shipping this particular box in this
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particular dock and it works with
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chromebook and they've got it certified
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and they've got it right there on the
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box which is kind of cool
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same thing goes with this sandisk ultra
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it's just an sd card nothing special
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but again right on the outside of the
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packaging works with chromebook so
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all really cool to see and then we went
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not that we haven't tested or messed
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with these before heck we made a whole
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uh the logitech uh k580
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keyboard and then the three 355 m355
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uh mouse and these again the packaging
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works with chromebook and just like we
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i'm not going to go to great links here
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on this but whether you're using this
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with bluetooth or the usb
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dongle that goes with these keyboards
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it works so well in either mode that
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uh we've if you've used chromebooks
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before you know bluetooth accessories
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can really be a pain in the butt
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and even on bluetooth these things work
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better than just about any other
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accessory that we've used that
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utilizes bluetooth to connect with all
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right so let's just start plugging some
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the sandisk ultra micro sd xc
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this is just a decently fast micro sd
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and it comes with an adapter which is
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for certain devices most chromebooks
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though just take the micro sd card so
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we're just gonna pop it in the slot here
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and this lenovo actually has it nice and
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handy pop the chromebook open
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and boom i mean it it was ready to go
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before i even had the lid open
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uh shows sd card right here and just
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any other removable storage i can eject
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it i can format the device i can start
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moving files to and from it
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no big deal works exactly like you'd
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expect well cool so there's a
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amd chromebook working well with a works
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with chromebook thing so let's pop open
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10th gen device now and let's go with
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the cable matters here so this is a usb
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type-c dock and it is made again
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to work specifically with chromebooks it
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doesn't mean it's the only thing it's
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but idea being usb type-c
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you place it in the port and you can
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plug basically anything else you want to
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into that dock you would use something
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like this at a desktop that you would
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for most days so you just have this
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connected to your monitor connected to
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your storage peripherals all that kind
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and you know you can see it's got a usb
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type-c passthrough you're getting
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you're getting hdmi you're getting a
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ports so you're getting a nice extension
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of your port selection on your
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chromebook and again it's one thing
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that you plug in i use a dock very
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similar to this on a day-to-day basis
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it's not labeled works with chromebook
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but it's a very similar dock to this
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and so uh let's just plug this thing in
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okay light came on so now that we have
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this plugged in let's plug something
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into it so we'll take this
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usb dongle that we have with this
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and it is set to work it's already set
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but i'm going to plug it in right there
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again no further setup needed
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and just like that mouse is on the
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screen and you know for kicks and
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this uh this keyboard actually works
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over that same dongle
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and so right away you can see keys
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right there on the screen so just plug
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boom works so we didn't plan on doing it
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there's this working on this chromebook
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without really any setup there's this
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keyboard and mouse working on this
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without really any setup either it just
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things just work okay so let's move on
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my passport from wd and for that one
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what do we have under here we've got the
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pixelbook go so this this presents uh
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for us to find something that works
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plugs and plays with the chromebook so
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the reason being this device this
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particular device only has usb type a
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or usb type c i'm sorry and so whenever
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accessory for a chromebook that's only a
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device which is like this it's actually
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going to plug in with usb type a
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if your chromebook doesn't have usb type
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a ports that's really the only asterisk
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here i mean it's not like
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this works with most chromebooks but
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some chromebooks with these processors
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that's not really the case but if the
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hardware doesn't line up obviously
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you're going to need something
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to get you to the right type of usb so
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here's this wd my passport really
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slim cool looking design nice and
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pocketable this is going to go in your
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bag no problem whatsoever
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so we're going to plug that bad boy in
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and again if the hardware doesn't line
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doesn't mean it won't work you just need
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something to change it so i've got type
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cables here and only type c import
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inputs here so we're going to go back
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guy we'll plug him in and again there
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are adapters that are much smaller than
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this that you could use for this case
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again if you've got the adapter why not
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we're going to plug that right into the
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removal device detected same thing
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applies here i can right click i can
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eject the device start moving files to
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it works exactly like it's supposed to
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heck if i put this in here um we've got
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all of our peripherals this doesn't have
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an sd card reader if i had an sd card
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reader i put the sd card in there and we
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just kind of have this frankenstein
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going on here but basically we've got
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our mouse our dock our external storage
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all working together all working on this
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no previous setup was done here i'm
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opening this stuff up out of the box
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plugging it in and boom it just works so
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there you have it stuff marked works
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with chromebook does exactly what it
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it just works we've shown you that we
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can plug this stuff into multiple
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chromebooks and get the exact same
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result across the board doesn't matter
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what kind of processors we're talking
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for users we really hope and we're sure
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that google hopes this as well that it's
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going to be something that makes buying
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peripherals for chromebooks
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so much simpler because you can just
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know as i pick something up off the
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if i see that sticker on it i am good to
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go it's going to work
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with my chromebook again huge thanks to
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western digital for providing a lot of
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these peripherals that we tried out in
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as a part of that promotion they're
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actually giving us three wd
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my passports to give away completely
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free there's a five terabyte version
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and two two terabyte versions all
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certified works with chromebook and all
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available to win if you enter the
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giveaway that's linked down in the
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