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slash WordPress so chrome boxes are back
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just two short years ago we weren't sure
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if we were gonna see any more of these
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hit the market now there's more than you
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can choose from so today we're gonna
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take a look and maybe help you decide
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which ones for you and so if you're in
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the market for a new chrome box and
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you're not sure which one to buy we kind
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of have to take a different approach
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here chrome boxes are essentially Chrome
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OS in its purest form we don't look at
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things like display size resolution
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peripherals pins convertible clamshell
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tablet none of that matters you're gonna
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have your monitor you're gonna have your
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keyboard you buy whatever you want it's
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all about what's inside this box and
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honestly it's kind of dealer's choice
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we've got a wide range here but which
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one's for you really depends on what you
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need out of a chrome box all right so
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let's walk through what matters when
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you're looking to buy a new chrome box
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like I said there's a pretty wide range
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you've got a base seller on process or
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all the way up to core i7 like this HP
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it has 16 gigs of ram and honestly it's
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a beast and you probably aren't gonna
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use what's inside for most users if
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you're just setting this on your desk at
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home and you're just gonna be using it
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to do some banking Facebook watch some
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cat videos don't be afraid of the
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Celeron processor the 38 65 has plenty
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of power and if you can get one upgraded
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with eight gigs of ram it's gonna do
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everything that you need it to do
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these I sevens and I fives they're
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geared more towards enterprise guys that
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are running a lot of stuff like Linux
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and things like that and if that's what
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you want or that's what you need you
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want to tinker around with some graphic
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editors or whatnot I'd say go for it
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but all of these devices are essentially
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the same when it comes to port selection
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boards are identical they're all going
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to support 4k all of that so it really
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just boils down to how much power you
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need and then price like I said for a
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daily driver around the house just to do
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little things the Celeron processors
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processors more than enough and you can
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grab one of those for around two hundred
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two hundred fifty bucks on Amazon
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there's even a site that will upgrade it
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and trick it out for you and give you an
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ASIS box with a nice skin on it and the
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extra four gigs our amp for right at
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$300 for everyday use that's the one I'd
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go with but it's really going to boil
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down to price and which one you like I'm
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a fan of the Acer because I like it's a
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little bit different in the shape it
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comes with this little base so you can
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mount it vertically by your computer but
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at the end of the day it's going to be
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tucked behind your monitor and it
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doesn't really matter but when we go
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back to what's on the inside there is
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one key thing I will point out if you're
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doing the seller on go ahead and spring
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for a gigs a ram if the manufacturer
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offers it if they don't that's another
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beautiful thing about these devices
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they're easily upgradable some of them
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more so than others the Acer is a little
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bit more difficult to get apart than say
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the Asus but at the end of the day once
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you pop them open switching out the RAM
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and even the storage going up to the
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nvme half a terabyte whatever you want
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it's just not that hard and it kind of
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future-proof these so if you're happy
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with the processor and the device don't
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get hung up on how much RAM it's got or
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how much storage it has you can adjust
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that at will so find the device that
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works for you as far as processing power
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and price get it and then a month from
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now you want to throw some more storage
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in it's no problem and we're going to be
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doing some breakdown videos of the ones
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we have on hand to show you just how
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easy it is to upgrade so you can check
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those out later if there's a specific
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device you're interested in
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all that being said which chromebox is
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right for you personally I'm still gonna
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go with the Acer because I like the way
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it's designed I like the way it looks
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and I do like having the powerful
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processor and all that together that's
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the one I'm gonna pick at the end of the
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day if money doesn't matter but if
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you're worried about price or you just
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don't care about having all that and you
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don't care about how it looks and maybe
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you do want to upgrade it down the road
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I've got to go with the ASIS so far to
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my knowledge it's the easiest one to
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take apart the easiest one to upgrade
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and you can get these all day long on
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Amazon for two hundred twenty two
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hundred and forty dollars and again it's
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got a great processor in it that's gonna
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do more than enough for you at home you
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can upgrade it and you can tuck it away
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behind your monitor you can even mount
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it on the back if you want so if you
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absolutely hate the way it looks you
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don't have to look at it so there you
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have it guys for my pick I'm going with
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the Asus is the chrome box that you
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