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so just a few days ago a sous unveiled
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the C 425 Chromebook and kind of out of
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nowhere gave us a sequel to the 434 and
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if you're not familiar with it we'll
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link it in the description below we've
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done a review and all kinds of other
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videos on that device and it's become
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one of the most popular Chromebooks
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available and it's a fantastic one it
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has a lot of great features so what's
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new in this 425 well the listing was a
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little confusing the pricing is a little
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confusing too so we just ordered one so
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that we can unbox it and take a look
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I mean we're looking at a basic Asus
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Chromebook box here they don't really
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have any surprises in them anymore at
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this point well as soon as I say that
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this is a little bit of a surprise a lot
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of a Susa device has come basically with
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the block that has the plug on it and
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while that's handy to put in your bag
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it's kind of annoying actually to try to
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plug into stuff because it usually takes
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up like two slots on the wall or two
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slots and your power surge so it's nice
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to have kind of a two piece cable a
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little more clunky but just depending on
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your use case it can actually be a
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little bit more helpful
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we'll get the Chromebook out of the way
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here and yeah your basic stuff a couple
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pieces of paper in the box
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nothing really exciting there but
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honestly you guys came here for the
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Chromebook anyway right and right out of
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the box I mean this thing bears tons of
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resemblance to the ec 434 and that's not
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surprising that honestly is the reason
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we bought it and a reason why we're a
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little bit I don't know just curious in
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general about this device because if it
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were just a variant of the c4 34 no big
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deal we would just say hey look at new
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variants come out with you know some new
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specs but this thing changes a few
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of the sea 434 and so it has a different
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model completely and we just want to
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kind of look at it and obviously put it
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under a normal review process alright so
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looking just at the outside of the
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device in general again striking
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similarity to the 434 but I can tell you
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right off the bat plastic bottom here so
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the 434 is all aluminum and one thing we
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need to talk about in general is there
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are so many similarities between this
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device and the 434 that it's going to
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bear repeating throughout the entire
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time both in this unboxing and in the
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review process because they sue says
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priceless saying MSRP at $499 and right
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now you can buy the 430 for the one that
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we reviewed for $499 so you need to
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really think through that if you're
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looking at purchasing either one of
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these devices and you can get the one
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with eight gigs of RAM internally the
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434 specifically for 559 dollars I
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believe right now so we're already
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starting to see some deals on that we'll
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probably end up seeing deals on this too
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and we'll talk about that here in just a
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second but overall I mean outside again
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if you like the look of the 434 you're
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gonna like the look at this one it
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almost looks completely identical
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alright so let's crack it open and see
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what we got inside and you know not
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surprisingly we're looking at the same
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16 by 9 screen nice thin bezels but
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right off the bat I can tell you that
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the base of this thing is plastic it is
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not aluminum so now we're going to
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underside its plastic we've got the
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keyboard deck is plastic so the entire
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bottom half of this device is made out
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of plastic it looks great and it
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actually doesn't feel bad or anything
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it's just plastic and you need to know
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that when comparing it again to the C
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434 keyboard feels identical to the C
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434 which is to say it's fantastic
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I mean click is great key travels great
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a lot of people got really upset about
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the way the backlighting works on this
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during the daytime you just got to turn
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the backlight off key then the the
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letters are perfectly legible no problem
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when it gets darker that's when you want
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to bring that back lighting up you do
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get a much bigger trackpad here it feels
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like the same surface so that is to say
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it's okay it's usable it's fine it's
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much larger here but it's the same kind
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of plasticky surface that the 434 has
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which led me to have an okay experience
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trackpad click mechanism feels really
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good and it's nice and quiet so all of
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that checks out is very nice
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again the thin bezels and the screen
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look amazing on this Chromebook but with
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this one instead of having an all glass
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panel over top you've got an anti-glare
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finish on the screen and you have a
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plastic surround actually around the
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screen and there's no touch capability
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here to speak of so you're losing touch
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and from what I can tell looking at the
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screen you're losing some brightness to
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the original see 4:34 comes in just shy
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of 300 nits this device if I'm guessing
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will talk about this specifically in the
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review but it looks like it's on par
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with some of these Chromebooks we've
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seen here lately so I'm going to guess
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somewhere between 2 170 to 180 somewhere
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in that range so yeah you're getting
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anti glare but you're losing some of
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that screen brightness as well around
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the sides of the device we've got the
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same port selection as the 4:34 had so
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that's to say a USB a 2 USB type C's
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micro SD card slot headphone microphone
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jack and the Kensington lock port we
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haven't tested the speakers on this
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obviously I'm just sitting here messing
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with it right now but I would assume the
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same speakers are along for the ride and
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those speakers in the 434 we're good so
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we're putting together a decent package
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here and internally we're talking core
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m3 eight gigs of ram 64 gigs of internal
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storage so there's a lot to like here
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and I think this is gonna be a good
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performing Chromebook I don't think
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there's anything necessarily really
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wrong with it the question becomes price
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is it really going to be worth the price
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Asus is asking for it until we review it
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I can't really answer that just yet
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just know that compared to the 434 that
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actually comes with a few more perks
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it's not that much cheaper at this point
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and I think probably Asus has put this
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device out in order to just mark it down
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matter of fact it went on sale 25 bucks
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off within a few days of it launching so
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we're gonna spend time with it we're
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gonna review this device we're gonna do
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all the same things we normally do with
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it but if you're looking at it and
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thinking about is this device for me you
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might want to stick around and wait for
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us to spend a little bit more time with
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it to tell you whether you need to get
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this or the 434 but guys that's it for
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