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the pixel slate launched to less than
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stellar reviews partly because of the
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tablet mode and the way that you
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navigate through multiple open
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applications was just a little bit janky
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and ultimately it still is that way and
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it's that way across every Chromebook so
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for being fair it's really less of a
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problem with the pixel slate and it's
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more of a problem with just Chrome OS in
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general but it seems like with Chrome 75
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coming out in the next few weeks if you
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jump over to the beta or dev channel and
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get that 75 version of Chrome OS we're
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actually seeing what looks like possibly
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a fix so here we are we have in overview
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mode some Android apps we have some
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pwace and we have some just basic chrome
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tabs of the video running this is a
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normal kind of setup you would have if
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you were just doing day-to-day stuff and
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so what I want to show you is on Chrome
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74 and stable Channel right now how this
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behaves in full-screen see some
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animation drops here it's workable but
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smooth it is not and then we're going to
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and again we're getting some black
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screen flashes just overall it feels a
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little half-baked it's not performing
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terribly right now you saw right there
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was nice and smooth so it's just kind of
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this mixed bag of performance when it
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comes to Chrome OS 74 in these kind of
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tasks so now let's switch over to Chrome
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OS 75 in beta and see what the
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difference looks like all right now
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we've updated the slate to beta 75 so 75
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should be hitting stable channel and
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four or five weeks something like that
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so if you don't feel like jump into the
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beta Channel you don't have to in just
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over a month you'll see this actually
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come down to your device automatically
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but what I want to show you is now that
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we're in beta that transitions between
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these things how much smoother
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everything is before we were giving
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black frames and stuff as we were moving
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between apps and let's go let's go split
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screen and you can just see everything
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is a lot smoother these animations are
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actually working we're not dropping
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frames all over the place now is it
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perfect not completely perfect I mean
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but gosh this is a ton more usable than
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what it was and just in general the
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whole interface feels better because
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ultimately for me if I'm using in tablet
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mode usually I'm gonna be doing
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something and I'm gonna jump out and do
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this or I'm gonna hit this button and
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jump into the next thing and this is
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just so much quicker than it was on
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stable and so whatever it is they've
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worked on and been working on I'm sure
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they've still got some some work to do
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to finish it up but as you can tell this
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is going a lot quicker than what it was
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and it makes this feel a whole lot more
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usable as a tablet in general and so
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it's exciting to see this particular
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thing move forward and whatever it is
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they're doing to fix it I hope they
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continue to just keep working on that
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and just making this a better and better
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tablet experience for not just this
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device but all the devices that are
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coming in the future especially as
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Snapdragon devices or around the corner
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in the second half of 2019 but guys
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