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Today we are really excited to bring you and unboxing and hands-on of the Viglen Chromebook 360! While the name Viglen is lesser-known here in the US, their 30-year presence in the UK puts them in the unique position of being 1 of only 2 IT hardware manufacturers based in the UK.
Today we have their latest EDU-focused Chromebook in the office and we get a good, close-up look at it in the unboxing.
For more Chrome OS news, check out http://chromeunboxed.com
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hey folks Robbie paying with chroma and
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box coming at you today with an
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exclusive unboxing of the biglan
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chromebook 360 this device joins us from
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all the way over in the UK and we are
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very excited to be the first to get our
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hands on it and to get it unboxed on
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camera so without any further ado let's
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get started alright so I've gone ahead
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and cut some of the pieces of the Box
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open so you get open buddies and I set
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the out of the way there for a second
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and we have charging stuff as usual and
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it looks like the one coming packaged
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here as a suddenly beginning this is a
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UK exclusive so got the UK style charger
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here and they were nice enough to give
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us a u.s. charger as well so let's get
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the box out of the way check this guy
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out
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alright so we got an all-black
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chassis not the thinnest device ever but
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again it's an education device and one
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of the goals of this device is to be
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able to withstand drops and those kinds
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of things so a little more heft is
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pretty normal over here on this side
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we've got three USB 3.0 ports and that's
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a really nice addition normally we only
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see two and one of them's three one of
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them's too so that's pretty nice side
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mounted power button across the back
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just the hinges we'll talk about how
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sturdy those are full-sized HDMI slot
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micro sd combo headphone microphone and
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then the power couple screws pop out
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right there and right there
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whole battery comes out a replaceable
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one can go in so being that this is
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again aimed at the education sector
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that's a pretty huge feature there it
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makes it simpler as batteries tend to
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wear down quicker than most other pieces
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of the hardware thing to swap out a
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battery pretty quickly and be going
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again with this device it feels solid
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like a tank it is heavy I'm not going to
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act like this is some light machine it's
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it's pretty heavy but again the goal
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here is to have dust resistance of water
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resistance and to be able to be dropped
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from about a meter without any wear and
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tear or sustainable damage
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so let's open this guy up truck guy has
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got a slight bit of texture to it and
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honestly when whether or not glass which
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systems not in education and and more
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affordable Chromebooks usually you don't
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get a glass trackpad this one is plastic
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I kind of enjoy the slight texture
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because untextured plastics it tends to
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pick up tons of fingerprints and this
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doesn't seem to be doing that right off
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the pad
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click feels great we've seen some some
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devices come in in the last few months
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where the trackpad out of the box felt
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kind of janky and wobbly this one does
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not actually feels great the the travel
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on it's really good it's really wide
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wider than my entire hand so that's
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pretty good should be easy to do all
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those multi-point gestures keyboard
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feels really good to roll it's it's
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shallow travel as most keyboards are on
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laptops but kind of clicky it feels
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really good and open this up it's kind
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of got a two-stage hinge so the first
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stage kind of does that number and then
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as it bends around it feels pretty good
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and so that's gonna allow you to get the
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stand mode the tent mode tablet mode all
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those kind of things as always a glass
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screen it's picking up fingerprints I
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don't think there's any way around it
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we're gonna run a quick octane test 11.6
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inch 1366 by 768 which is plenty of
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pixels for this size of screen but the
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viewing angles are actually quite good
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so as I can kind of bend it forward you
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can see there's some reflection like I
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said I've got the brightness turned down
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so we don't blow the camera out but
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viewing angles on every angle are pretty
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good and the brass wa has bumped up to
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almost 9,000 so that should end up being
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a lot more usable if you all remember
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back when I reviewed the Acer Chromebook
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14 there were some significant struggles
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with that processor and over time it
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just became kind of frustrating to use
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trackpad is doing really well
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multi-finger gestures registered just
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fine scrolling is nice and smooth as you
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can see here is it scrolling through
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youtubes page no issues whatsoever there
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three fingers
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Queen tabs everything's nice and smooth
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and I've messed with it a little bit as
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a cut away from the camera and we're not
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picking up any fingerprints on here so
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especially for a device that is pointed
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towards education use obviously not
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picking up smudges and junk on your
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trackpad is a pretty big deal so there
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we go
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first vevo and I came across pretty
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clear for downward firing seems like the
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sounds kind of coming out from the table
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a little bit which is good not a whole
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lot of difference as we tilt it it does
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a good job to does a good job too as
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soon as you flip it into tablet mode as
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well not too shabby
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go full tablet see how the rotation
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works just fine so a little pinch to
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zoom nice and smooth so yeah not too bad
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at all this device should fall in line
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with devices that will at some point in
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the future receive Android apps as well
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so that would be another benefit for
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students and teachers alike to get a
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device with this good of a screen the
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convertible form factor a pretty good
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keyboard feels pretty comfortable what
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feels like a really good track bet at
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this point decent speakers spill
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resistance four gigs of ram 32 gigs of
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internal storage a replaceable battery
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there's a lot of good stuff going on
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with this device and so you can color me
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impressed off the bat so again we'll get
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a review put together and a week or two
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and let you guys know how it fared in
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day-to-day use until then keep it locked
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on the channel if you haven't yet
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subscribed below give this video a
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thumbs up we want to thank our friends
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over at biglan for getting this device
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to us and again keep it locked here
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we'll have a review of this and so many
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more devices coming up soon and until
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then guys have a good one
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