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so back in May of this year we were up
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in New York City at a sirs Hardware
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event where they unveiled all sorts of
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things and one of those things was the
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Acer Chromebook spin 13 which is the
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device we have right here and we wanted
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to give you guys a quick look at it some
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of our initial impressions as we're
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spending time with it to prepare our
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bottom or only an aluminum lid this is
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all aluminum all around and it feels
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really great the size is really great
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too it's a 13.5 inch display which we've
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not seen up to this point with Chrome OS
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devices and so you're talking a full
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inch it's actually 1.2 inches larger
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than the pixel book display and it comes
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in at a higher definition than most
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Chromebooks not quite as high definition
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as the pixel book and the pixel count on
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it actually I've got to grab the box
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because nobody could remember this
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random number let's see here it is 20
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256 by 1504 that seems random but all
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you need to know is powering it up
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opening it up the first time it's really
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high resolution the colors pop it looks
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great it's 3 by 2 which you guys know
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I'm a big fan of and so when it's in
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tablet mode it feels really good
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it's it's a fantastic display great
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viewing angles nice brightness
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everything looks really good on it so
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far now we got a backlit keyboard you've
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got Gorilla Glass on the trackpad
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Gorilla Glass on the screen stowable
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stylus there's really nothing on the
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checklist that you can't find here and
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it comes in a wide variety of
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specifications as well so we've got the
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core m3 a Core i5 and core i7 version
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different ran variations we'll get into
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all that stuff in the review but what I
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can tell you is using this device just
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I'm not over the moon for the keyboard
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it seems okay but it's backlit so that's
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really good for a lot of you and some
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people aren't really that picky with
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keyboards so I think the keyboards
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passable Gorilla Glass edge trackpad
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which is really awesome it feels just as
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smooth as the pixel book click mechanism
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feels really good if there's a little
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cramped in its size but again we'll talk
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more about this stuff when we when we
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fully review and spend a little bit more
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time with the device but the panel is
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great and the workspace that that's the
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one thing I want to get to on this
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device it from just initial impressions
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here when I open this device up and
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actually use it the size of the screen
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again I've talked about this before but
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three by two screens actually make the
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diagonal measure feel much larger so for
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instance if we're working with an 11.6
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inch device that's sixteen by nine so
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very rectangular you take that same 11.6
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inches and make it more square that the
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screen real estate physically is bigger
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so if you do the math and you multiply
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that you actually get more square inches
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same thing goes here it's a three by two
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screen so a 13.5 inch display we talked
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about like MacBooks for instance are
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13.3 inches at 16 by 10 feel certain
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size this actually feels larger so when
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I set this next to another 13 inch
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display that's 16 by 9 this thing feels
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massive in comparison and it makes a
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huge difference when this is your only
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device if you're not extending to
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another display are you just using this
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device as in a coffee shop or at your
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desk the display really really makes a
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difference an Acer has absolutely just
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knocked it out of the park on that we'll
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get to more of the the specifics of this
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device as we spend more time with it but
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for now I can tell you I'm really really
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impressed just for the first few hours
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of using it there are some things that I
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think are gonna be alarming and and I
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may not like and may not think are
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perfect with this device but overall so
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far from what I can tell they sir has
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delivered something really good at a
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really really compelling price point
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right now especially going into a season
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where we're gonna see lots of Chrome
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books at the roughly same price point as
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this device comes in at so definitely
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keep it locked to the channel and keep
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up with what we're doing if you if you
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haven't subscribed yet for sure
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I don't normally say that to the end of
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the video but for sure subscribe because
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there are lots of Chromebooks coming out
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and roughly in this price range roughly
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with this kind of build quality that
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you're gonna want to know about
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especially going into the holiday season
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