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hey folks Robbie Payne with chrome unbox
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coming at you today with a live unboxing
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it is our first time actually going Live
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on YouTube to do an unboxing and if this
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works out and we like the result and
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things go pretty well then we might
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start doing this on a more regular basis
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going forward uh because the nature of
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unboxings in general is pretty low-key
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and it kind of feels a little silly to
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over produce those particular videos
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versus our review videos and so we
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thought we would give this a try today
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see how the interaction goes and
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um
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and if it works out and is good then
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we'll move forward maybe do more of this
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in the future so what I would like to
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ask you and I know I'm not going to
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catch everybody right now but we're
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going to unbox this thing and afterwards
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we're going to save some time for some
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questions so if we see questions coming
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up right now the way that this is being
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filmed I can't see your questions anyway
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if Joe sees quite a few of those he's
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probably going to chime in and say
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we're going to take questions at the end
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so that we can kind of turn this around
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and I can see your questions so
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um without further Ado let's look at
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this thing now we grab this from Best
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Buy
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um grab something
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you should have thought this through
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so we snagged this from Best Buy we had
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an article go out today that there are
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some
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stock issues apparently
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and while Amazon has sent out a few a
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majority of them have not gone out yet
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Best Buys are seeing Limited stock
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and then other retailers such as b h ABT
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Adorama camera for instance are all
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still showing pre-order status we've
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reached out to Samsung for some comment
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as to what is going on exactly because
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it's hard to believe that they didn't
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kind of see this coming
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um
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yeah here's the application we got a
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quick start looks like there's like a
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little Grabber in there for the SD card
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I put an SD card in the Pro that we
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reviewed did not have to use that to get
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it out but it's there
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this is likely this will stay open
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yeah charging block
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again nothing crazy here but it is a
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USBC
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charging block
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um this does not fold in or detach
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and then we've got the USBC end here
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and just like the pro I'm sure that this
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one will charge very very quickly
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which is very cool all right let's get
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into this nothing real fancy going on
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here I was kind of hoping they've
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gussied up a little bit for this
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particular device but
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not so this looks like the packaging for
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most
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Samsung Chromebooks we're going to get
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this whole box but it does still have
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the big Square Samsung box all their
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Chromebooks have come in those prior to
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this
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a little bit of plastic back here around
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the hinge that's interesting
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and we've got plastic on all the feet
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and I normally wouldn't take the time to
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do this but then it would be sliding
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around
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the whole time I'm trying to do stuff so
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we're gonna take these off real quick
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other than that looking pretty good
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again we're not seeing anything new or
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unique here from a design standpoint
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these are really weird
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um for perspective
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in just a second I'll pull the
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Chromebook plus up here and you're going
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to see like they're literally this is
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literally the exact same chassis
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let's open her up
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did you see a sticker down here
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Chromebook plus
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um so we know that this is not the pro
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and likely like other Chromebooks it's
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probably not going to start up without
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me plugging it in first
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nope so let's do that real quick
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and if you all haven't already watched
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the Samsung Chromebook Pro review
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the only difference between this device
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and that device is the internal
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processor so here we're met with the arm
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processor it's being relabeled kind of
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white labeled as an op1 that's the rock
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chip 33.99 technically
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and it's going to score around 10 000
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probably on octane we're going to run
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that real quick for you versus the 20 21
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000 on the pro however because Android
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in general is built for
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um
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built mainly for arm processor devices
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from what we've seen it looks like
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Android devices our Android apps might
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work a little bit better on this one
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than they do right now on the pro and
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that's probably just for the time being
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foreign
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that guys this that literally feels that
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if you want more detail on all this kind
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of stuff
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um go watch the Chromebook Pro review it
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is the exact same chassis it feels no
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different the screen looks just as
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exceptional everything looks gorgeous
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and we're installing the system update
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that is the problem of doing stuff live
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seven minutes so if this actually is
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going to take seven minutes we're not
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going to sit here and
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look at this for seven minutes
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yeah it's moving along okay
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um
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how many people we got watching right
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now
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handful okay so we got a couple minutes
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while this is downloading and update I
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do want to get uh an octane because I've
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had a lot of questions about octane
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scores I'd love to run it on camera for
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you so you all can see it
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um so let's do our our questions real
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quick why we've got a few minutes I
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think that might be a wise use of our
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time so we're gonna flip the camera
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around here
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and we're gonna go front facing
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let's see someone asked about the
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stickers Robbie um sorry
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I think those stickers will come off um
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energy star look if you can I don't know
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if you can point this we've got a
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stabilization on the
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I'm also do that right on camera right
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now so energy star one in general comes
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right off no issues
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I'm gonna cross my fingers and hope this
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one comes right off as well
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most time the manufacturer ones come off
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easily and this one looks good
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yeah no residue so there you go no
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stickers that's the bummer about the
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Intel powered ones they always have that
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Intel sticker and that is not simple to
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get off of your device all right so what
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we got here will it come in black no
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this device will uniquely be this silver
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and the pro will uniquely be black
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[Music]
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what's the pen like and how does it lag
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I will gladly pull it out and do a
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couple jots here in just a few minutes
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[Music]
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full review on the pixel phone I'm not
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sure if there's an appetite for that we
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could do that and I've been rocking it
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since I got it so
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um kind of went back and forth on
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whether or not I was going to keep that
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phone and decided to stick with it
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because it's just too awesome
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packaged boring yes yes it was
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um
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outside the Play Store yes there's a way
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to run apps outside the Play Store you
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have to switch your Chromebook into
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developer mode and then set that setting
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um in in your Android settings just like
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you would on your phone and then you can
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side load apps
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upcoming Chrome OS tablets absolutely we
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will review those I would like to own
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one for myself and I know a few other
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people that would like to price on this
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device is 449 dollars plus tax and or
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shipping depending on where you buy it
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I had quite a few questions about flip
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uh compared to this device uh yeah the
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pro
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um we as I answered earlier today on on
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our video we are definitely going to
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have a video of the Chromebook Pro in
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the Chromebook flip c302 side by side uh
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within the next few days is that fair
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um that will be going we've got the
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footage it's in the process of being
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editing that stuff takes a little bit of
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time
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um so we'll have that that video out I
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how we're going to handle doing this
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against the flip
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likely will be promptly doing a video
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showing the AC or the Samsung Pro and
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Samsung plus side by side so you can see
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more of their differences specifically
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because
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uh to redo an entire review for instance
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um seems to be a little bit much for a
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device like this where everything is
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literally the same other than a
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processor
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um
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yes correct it does have to be in Dev
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mode so you'd have to not in Dev Channel
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don't be confused there we have you have
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three channels of Chrome OS and then you
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have different you can put it in
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developer mode you have to switch to
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developer mode just like you would on an
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Android phone you have to be in
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developer mode on Android in order to
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actually side load application well I
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think that's true I could be mistaking
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that you do have to be in Dev mode on
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Chrome OS in order to sideload apps all
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right so we are back up and running and
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we're going to browse as a guest real
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quick
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see what kind of fun we can get into so
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let's look at some octane
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and again this screen is searingly
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bright we're in a pretty bright room
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right now with a lot of sunlight and
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it's honestly at full brightness it's
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brighter than it should then you
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actually need to to use it so we're down
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at
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about 75 brightness right now
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so we're gonna let this guy go I would
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be shocked if it comes anywhere
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um
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anywhere too far over ten thousand and
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you can see some of these early scores
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basically octane is a JavaScript
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Benchmark built by Google and so it's
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testing all the things that browsers
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would do and be good at so since Chrome
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OS is based on Chrome in general uh
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browsing speed and the ability to render
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web pages really well that's honestly
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the the best thing it could do keep in
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mind octane doesn't necessarily mean
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it's gonna like Run games or 3D content
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any better it doesn't do a lot of GPU
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testing and so octane doesn't take into
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consideration that this thing has a
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bunch of pixels on the screen it's just
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running JavaScript tests and those kind
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of benchmarks in the background so that
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stuff has nothing to do with how many
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pixels are on the screen so yeah 94 58
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is what we're going to get I would
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guarantee you
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um I'm not going to take up time doing
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it but if we close this and run it a
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couple more times we could probably eke
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it up over ten thousand that's about all
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you're going to get for reference a lot
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of the Braswell devices the Acer
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Chromebook 14
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um
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things like that that came out last year
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were getting somewhere in the
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7 500 to 9000 so we're all speed wise
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this thing's going to keep up and or
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best those devices and so
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um
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let's just load up uh The Verge I use
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that a lot
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brightness all the way up Robbie no
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there we go
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and so you can see browsing through
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websites it load this up nice and quick
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we're not getting any check your
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checkerboarding or anything weird like
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that and again The Verge has a ton going
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on that's
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a heavy website
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if I could type
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in general our website's not too
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terrible on on load speed but there's a
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lot of assets that have to load in for
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this one no real issues there
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we're going to pop these
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into separate windows
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not too shabby there you see a little
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bit of frame rate drop
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but nothing unusable so let's
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pop the pin out
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it's not going to let me do a note
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because I'm not logged in that's really
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annoying
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because I don't have Google keep on here
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all right so I guess I have to log in to
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test that real fast
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live TV folks
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another thing to keep in mind while
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we're doing this don't base a ton on
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this again we're going to do a review
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video this we're just going to do it in
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comparison basically of the pro so that
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we're not talking about everything under
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the sun again we're just going to talk
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about all the things that are different
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with this one that then with the pro
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and it's going to take a second because
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all of our stuff has to load in
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Here Comes
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we're not going to get into that just
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yet
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there we go all right
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here we go so this is the last thing
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we're going to test here
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and this is the pen lag
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if it will load up
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all right
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and again I don't want to test too much
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against this because right now it's
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installing everything in the background
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so it's probably going to be some of
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this that lags just because
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and right now it's pretty laggy I'm not
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gonna lie
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uh
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uh starting to catch up a little bit
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but it's struggling right now again
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we're installing all of our stuff
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extensions and everything in the
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background so this is probably something
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better left for me to spend a few days
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with and then get back to you guys on
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um but that's the main thing that we're
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going to be looking at with this device
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over the next week or so what I want to
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do is say okay go watch the pro review
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if you want to talk about anything
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externally what we want to focus on over
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the next week or so with this device is
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how it runs on day-to-day operations so
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is it going to get be able to get work
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done are you going to be comfortable
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using it as a third device or could it
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be a replacement device my inkling is
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it's probably going to be a third device
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type thing use it around the house it's
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a secondary thing you take down to the
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coffee shop that kind of stuff but I
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want to give it some time I want to make
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sure it's C and then let you guys know
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so for now that's been all when this
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thing is posted onto YouTube if you
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liked it give it a thumbs up subscribe
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and until next time guys we'll see you
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