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On the desk here in front of me is one
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of the newer Chromebooks by Asus and
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it's got a few things that make it
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really special. One, it's only 199
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bucks. Two, it's a 15.6 in screen. And
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three, it's got an unproven, untested by
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us at least new processor in it in the
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Intel N50. So, there's a lot of stuff we
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want to check out in this box. So, let's
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right, so let's just hop in the box
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here. you know, Asus uh asked us if we
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wanted to check this one out as we're
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waiting for that uh CM32 detachable and
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kind of looked into it and CX15 came
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out, I think last year uh and it wasn't
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very remarkable, but then we saw the
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CM15 at CES and it was like, oh, the
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like the colorways are kind of fun. Uh
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this one comes in three. One of them's
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out of stock right now and then this is
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the purple one and there's like a navy
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one. Um yeah, I like that. Not exactly
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my thing. I would mistake that for like
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a gray or something cuz, you know, I'm
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color deficient. So, I I like it, but I
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also know it's kind of purpley. But,
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yeah, the main things uh when we asked
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them about this was, okay, like what
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what's the story here? The the new Intel
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N50s inside here. So, it's a dual core
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6W chip. Probably really going after
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like the mid-range ARM processors kind
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of thing. So, if it gets the 13 hours of
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battery that Asus is saying it gets,
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that's pretty cool. Um, and then it's
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15.6 6 in IPS screen 300 nits and it's
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200 bucks and so I mean if it's even
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decent for $200 if you're getting a
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decent 15.6 in laptop that's pretty
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cool. Um so that's fun. You get like
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their nicer 45 watt charging block in
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here instead of you know the uglier
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two-piece ones. Um pretty nice
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inclusion. Again price informs a lot of
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stuff and so when something's 200 bucks
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you know you can forgive a lot of things
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man. Okay under this light I can
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actually see the purple. So, I'm
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assuming it's like super purple to
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everybody else. Um, but kind of a coated
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uh finish on the bottom, so kind of
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grippy, which is nice. A lot of fans for
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a low wattage chip, but uh or fan ports,
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I'm sorry. And then uh this kind of nice
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textured completely anti-fingerprint
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uh top top thing here. I like how ASUS
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has started putting their their logo
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down at the bottom. I think it's a nice
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look. Let's crack it open here.
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Yeah, like even the purpley keys kind of
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a muted size trackpad with a 15.6 in. A
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lot of times we're getting these huge
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ones thanks to uh what MacBooks have
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done over the years, but perfectly
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usable.
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Seated very nicely,
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good click mechanism. Uh definitely myar
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uh which is not surprising. This thing
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is 3 12 lb. Said 15.6 in. Hey, look at
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this. That is for an all plastic
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Chromebook. That's that's pretty sturdy.
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Um, and again at only three and a half
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pounds, it doesn't have to hold up its
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weight too much. Definitely a 16 by9
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screen, full HD here. It also has uh
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milspec rating. Um, so should be good
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against like minimal drops, dust, all
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that kind of stuff. Uh, numeric keypad
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around the side here. We're not going to
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get any backlighting. Um, it looks like,
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yeah, downward firing speakers. I'm not
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expecting much there either, but we'll
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check them out. Um, and then yeah,
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webcam up top. It's a 720p webcam again
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at 200 bucks. These are the types of
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things you just fully expect. But we got
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a matte finish non-touch uh 16x9
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15.6 in screen here. So, I'm interested
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to see what that thing looks like once
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we get it powered on. Um and then let's
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talk about ports. Over here on the side,
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we got two USB type-C's, a full size
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USBA, and then an HDMI slot, which is
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also um just something on a 15.6 in
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device. I'm like, please just put an
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HDMI port on here uh instead of forcing
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people to use a dongle. Uh but then on
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the other side there's really nothing
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except a Kensington lock. So um yeah,
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interesting that all the ports are
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crammed on one side. But hey, again, you
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forgive a lot of things when a device is
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199 bucks. So let me open this thing up,
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get logged in real quick. That'll give
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me a quick feel of the keys, the
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trackpad, the screen. We'll check out
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the camera, speakers, and all that kind
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of stuff real quick. And uh so I'll be
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right back. All right. So, after
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spending a few minutes getting
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everything updated and all that kind of
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stuff, here are the things I can tell
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you pretty quickly. Uh, the keyboard
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deck feels really good. The keyboard
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actually feels really good. It's quiet,
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but the the keys have a good click to
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them. Like, typing was not an issue. No
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mistyping. Uh, the number pad's a little
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small, but it technically works. It's
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not as small as some of the ones we've
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seen on Chromebooks. It's at least as
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wide as my fingers. So, like when you
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you go to kind of place your hand on it,
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it's wide enough to kind of still type
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by feel. uh if you're into that kind of
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stuff for your spreadsheets or something
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like that. Uh the camera at 720p is um
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good with dynamic range contrast. I
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mean, it's a it's a little grainy. It's
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a 720p camera. Uh but as we normally do,
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I'm going point back there into the
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darkness. And you can see it kind of
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adjusts pretty well um for a shot that's
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relatively dark compared to our
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foreground here. So, um it's going to
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get you through your, you know, calls
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and all that kind of stuff just fine.
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speakers are always a question on
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cheaper Chromebooks and um these
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speakers are better than a lot of other
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speakers on cheap Chromebooks. It
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doesn't mean they're good. Um but
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they're approaching maybe mediocre. Uh
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give them a listen here. This is at full
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volume. They're not loud
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>> things going on in this Chromebook for a
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really reasonable price. So it's enough
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talking about here. Let's get in the
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box.
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>> There's a tad bit of like mid and low
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end. There's no real bass to speak of,
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but it's not completely, you know, like
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that, uh, like you hear in a lot of
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really cheap Chromebooks where it's all
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mids and nothing else. Um, you're not
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going to want to sit and listen to those
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for a long period of time. But watching
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that video does bring me to the screen.
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And at 300 nits, it's not the brightest
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thing you've ever seen, but the
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anti-glare is working here. The image
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looks great. Text looks great on screen.
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Um, the scrolling is is nice and smooth.
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Um, yeah. So, so well done on the
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screen. Very nice small, minimal bezels.
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I like the screen a lot. Uh be cool if
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it was touchscreen, but again, 200
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bucks. We got to keep remembering that.
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So, I mean, you're talking like good
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inputs, okay speakers. You're only
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getting 4 gigs of RAM on this thing, 128
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gigs of storage. The 128's good. The 4
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gigs of RAM is probably going to hurt
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along with this um two core processor. I
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already noticed some stuttering. Just
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I'm all I've got open is three tabs and
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I even turned off Android apps here. Um
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again, well, you know what? our upload
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here the where the studio is sometimes
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the internet is not great so our upload
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is really bad um I did a speed test so I
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would hold off on saying like once
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stuff's loaded in I mean you're
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scrolling pages and and pinch zooming
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just fine so u I just I just want to
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give you at least a little bit of
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warning that this processor is not meant
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for having a bunch of uh virtual desks
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open and 20 tabs open if that's kind of
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what you're doing. You definitely need
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to probably um figure out how to get a
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little bit more money together and get a
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nicer Chromebook with a better processor
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in it. I don't think the N50 is going to
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be one that is uh for big multitasking.
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This is going to be a I got a single
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thing to do, couple web pages open, and
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that's really all I'm working on at one
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time and then move on to the next task.
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It's going to be that kind of thing. Um
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and then the battery hopefully will will
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go along with that. uh we just charged
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it so my battery numbers here aren't
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right but I could see something with 6
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watts giving you you know 10 to 12 hours
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of use and um if that's the case then I
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mean you you make some trade-offs when
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we talk about performance and battery
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life and so that's just kind of part of
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it and again I just keep saying it over
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and over again 199 bucks if this is a
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device that you know you just had around
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the house you know by the couch to pick
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up and check social media and do some
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like banking stuff or you know uh some
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simple spreadsheet work I mean I think
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it could do really well for that kind of
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stuff and even some video calls. Um,
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it's just not going to be uh any of
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these devices with these N50s in them
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are not going to be multitasking things.
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Um, but that's not to say it's not
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without its superlatives. I do just
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really like the build quality here for
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an all plastic device. I like how light
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it is. 3 12 lb. Keyboard feels great.
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Trackpad's good. Screen's good. Uh,
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camera is usable. The colorways are
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really nice. So, there's a lot of cool
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things going on here with this uh this
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new CX-15 from ASUS. And at 199 bucks,
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it seems to be the price it's going to
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kind of chill at. Um, yeah, it's a very
9:43
interesting uh device if you're looking
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for something affordable that you can do
9:47
a handful of very simple tasks on um
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that has a larger screen so you can kind
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of spread out a little bit. But I think
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