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so you like gaming but you don't like it

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which is why ASUS and Acer have

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developed gaming Chromebooks the operating system that you're pretty sure

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was designed to not let you do anything other than browse the web now let's see

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a game apparently and we're not going to cover the ASUS one but just so you know

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there's more there's multiples of these now wait ASUS has one it's called the

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ASUS got one and but the one we're

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interested in looking at today is from Acer the company that everyone confuses

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for ASUS including me inside the Box we got is a charger with every possible

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vert piece of verification and certification you could ever want 65

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Watts which is plenty for a Chromebook Chromebooks don't usually come with so

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much power in them that means that they get super great battery life this is

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huge this is a big Chromebook it's got a little two-tone Sheen to it brushed

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aluminum the bottom

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is plastic usb-a full size HDMI love it

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a USB-C I believe it's 3.2 Gen 2 of I2

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and Ethernet oh that's really nice we got an Ethernet Jack headphone and a

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microphone combo Jack and a battery charge light that's pretty big

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Chromebooks are usually more focused on portability it's also quite thick which

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is interesting because while it is a gaming Chromebook can't really play all

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that many games on Chromebook so the main thing that this does is it's going

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to be really really good at game streaming why you need a gaming

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Chromebook for game streaming I don't know why can't you why can't you just

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use a like a normal Chromebook and stream games build quality is a feels

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pretty good it feels quite sturdy it's big deck Flex we got

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I mean it's kind of I gotta really push on it so far I'm really impressed it

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does have a plastic frame up here screen Flex that's pretty good for how thin it

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is so when I open it you see they have these little rubber feet back here so

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when I pull this back far enough it props up the laptop a little bit allowing you to get a little bit more

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airflow keeping things a lot cooler we've got nice big speaker grilles but

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that means nothing as to how good the speakers sounds we'll take a look at that wait what four times Force

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canceling speakers what the hell is force canceling what does force can

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what do you know what I do know there's a

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pair of shoes out there that's water canceling and they just sponsored this video vessi thanks to vessi Footwear for

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sponsoring this video Vesti Footwear is known for being lightweight comfortable and most importantly water resistant

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with its dimatex technology and also it's easy to pack because you can just

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smoosh them down flat they're all fabric their everyday move line is designed

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with added support at the midsole and better breathability to keep up with

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your active lifestyle and sweaty feet take them off and put them on with ease

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thanks to the handy pull tab and it's also made creature free so every step

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you take will be free of guilt your feet will thank you for wearing these so say

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goodbye to wet socks and hello to 25 off with our offer code ShortCircuit at

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vesi.com ShortCircuit so the nice part about the gaming Chromebook is that it

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has the wasd keys highlighted for you so you never forget which Keys you need to

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press when you're playing games interesting that they didn't that they

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still make you use the search key instead of the Caps locks key because if

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you're like me caps lock is essential for gaming also the up Keys highlighted

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up and down silent it's weird why they highlighted some keys in another and how

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does it feel to type on it it's fine it feels a little mushy it's not super

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clicky bottoming out feels just kind of unsatisfying it's almost like it's

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settling into like a foam or something they're not advertising it as a mechanical keyboard so it's probably

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just membrane so not so bad I also think that the font's pretty classy I like the

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lowercase font it's 2560 by 1600 which means it's a 16 by 10 display so you get

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a little bit more of a vertical resolution which typically is reserved

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for productivity stuff um that might be a little weird some games don't support 16x10 it's 120 hertz

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which is great High refresh rate it's gaming I don't think you'll be able to

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find that on any Chromebooks outside of the gaming Uber it looks okay just from

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staring at it in the menus but we're gonna watch some videos that I've looked

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at before to uh see how it looks and yes

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I know it's YouTube there's compression that's not the reverse test if it looks

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good enough to watch YouTube then it's a chrome it's a good Chromebook it looks

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pretty good I've seen better looking displays nothing's terribly blown out

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colors seem relatively calibrated this is obviously just a glance it's not the

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darkest black so you'll see but it is an IPS display that so it's a solid white

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backlight um now let's listen to crab rate let's see how the speakers are playing okay

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already it sounds really bad like just

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just hearing that water

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okay it's louder now foreign

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and completely lacks any significant bass response you could when we're

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playing all you could hear is like they do get loud though which is good

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um and they didn't sound too distorted

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they don't get any worse when you're playing them really loud they just kind

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of sound bad across the whole volume Spectrum at least it's consistent and it

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doesn't get super distorted um of course they have DTS certification because you

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can just slap that on anything at some meaningless badge uh looking at the

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Quality it looks about as good as I would expect from a 650 laptop which

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means that the webcam quality is not great the microphone quality though I

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haven't heard it yet so let me know what it sounds like

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so inside this we have a Intel Core i5 1240p which is 12 cores four performance

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cores eight e-cores so a maximum of 16 threads good CPU for a Chromebook that's

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a lot of uh horsepower actually max turbo 4.4 gigahertz that's a beefy CPU

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for what is considered a lightweight platform we also got eight gigs of RAM

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which is uh I don't want to say it's par for the course for the for a Chromebook

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it should but it's the new standard for Chromebooks you'll see Chromebooks On The Low End having around four gigabytes

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a lot of the time we've got 250 gigabytes of NVMe storage which is a lot

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for a Chromebook Chromebooks are famous for having like 64 gigabytes so 256 of

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NVMe PCIe is great for all the programs

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that I guess you're going to have loaded on here which I don't expect to be ton but remember just because we're talking

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about game streaming doesn't mean that you can't install Linux using the Linux

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subsystem I actually just did it while we were talking earlier I don't know

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what the status of it is steam will be running natively on Chromebook soon it

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just runs all of the games through the Linux and implementation of the system but soon you'll be really thankful that

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you have 256 gigs of storage so that you can actually keep some games on here and

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have them running but let's talk about game streaming that's the main claim to

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fame that's why you have the 2.5 gigabit Ethernet or the 120 hits display it's

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all about the game streaming I also appreciate that they have the full size

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HDMI a lot of laptops will forgo the

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full-size HDMI make you use a dongle but if you're going to use this as like

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maybe this is your gaming laptop maybe this is your only computer being able to

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plug it into a display that you have is awesome I don't know if you can hear it

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you can't really but this thing is like just not even sweating

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um and it is doing a screen capture we are we are full up on memory and I

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only got I mean I can close this YouTube app even with game streaming eight gigs

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is not a lot and especially if you're you know if you do decide to play games

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locally you might be uh hurting oh that's kind of an interesting caveat I

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never thought about if you're using like a gaming peripheral say you have like

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your settings stored and it's in the cloud because that's how

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so many stupid gaming peripherals work you don't have local storage on your

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mouse you're not going to be able to configure it because they're not going to have a Chrome OS app that's kind of

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something that you don't really think about until you start using it so you go oh wait if my mouse requires software to

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be configured then I'm not going to be able to do that on here I'm going to be stuck with the default settings and the

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default DPI settings see here's the thing I don't know I don't know if I have to change this in like the GeForce

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Now settings GeForce now is only outputting at 16x9 yeah this is not

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using the full refresher to the display I don't think this is just streaming it

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however it is whisper quiet projecting two hours of battery life which is a

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this is it's a lot more than you will get but playing this game playing

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cyberpunk on your actual laptop oh my God excuse me I'm doing illegal stuff

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the cool kind of illegal stuff does the gaming chromework have a graphics card

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no it doesn't it just uses Intel Ze Graphics which is or XE Graphics which

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is actually a good question that we should have not just brushed over earlier despite the fact that this is a

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gaming Chromebook it has no graphics card it is just integrated Graphics

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which guess that's the Chromebook part of it huh but again we're not doing this

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isn't really being pitched or sold as a local gaming Beast it's being pitched as

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a Chromebook that also games because it has RGB and because it has a fast

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refresh rate that you can't take advantage of because I don't think there's any service that streams in 120

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frames per second I just played a little bit of a cyberpunk and most of all it

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felt like I was playing a game on a game streaming surface which

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you can do on like an Apple TV you can

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do it on your smart TV and your smart TV definitely has a worse processor however

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your smart TV isn't a laptop this you get a whole laptop and here's the thing

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the price is 650 US Dollars which is

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actually pretty good for what you're getting but if I'm going against other

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gaming computers let's look at the MSI gf63 that's got an Intel i5 10300h a

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worse processor than this it's got the same amount of storage the same amount

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of RAM it's smaller but it does have a 1650 a GTX 1650 mobile GPU is that

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really that much better what about this Lenovo IdeaPad it's in line with PCS

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that are in the same price range so here's the thing at the price point of

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650. is that a fair price for the specs that you're getting things will go on

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sale like currently it's Cyber Monday when we're recording this and there's a

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lot of higher spec laptops that are available at a very similar price that

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are Windows laptop my word of advice for a long time was that if you are planning

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to spend a more than than 500 on the laptop go Windows don't worry about

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Chromebooks if you're spending less than that that's what that's the category

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where the Chromebook becomes really really compelling is under 500 if you're

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looking for a machine that's under 500 what are you really doing on it you're

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browsing the web you're like voice chatting with people you're not doing

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heavy stuff Chrome OS has is really great in that budget segment when you

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push beyond that that's when you start competing with actually competent

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laptops it's gonna be better than the in than the integrated graphics on the pros

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despite the fact that this comes with a great CPU and Iris XE Graphics are

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pretty good for built-in Graphics I am interested to see what Chromebooks are

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looking like with similar specs around this price point core I3 8 gigabytes and

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128 gigabytes of storage for set for 800 bucks bad yes this is the ASUS one it's

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got a ryzen 5 in it eight gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes of storage that's it

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that's it that's all you got it do have a little number panel 650 50 is actually

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a pretty competitive price if you ask me you have to be really certain that you

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want to deal with a lot of the issues of Chrome OS like low game availability you

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might be missing some of your very uh useful apps like think about this do you

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use Discord you'll only be able to use the web app in this right now I think

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you might be able to get it do use the Android version on here but then you're dealing with emulation it gets a little

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bit wonky until Chrome OS can develop and add more of those native apps to the

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operating system like steam that's coming up having steamed directly on the

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hardware is going to make your life so much better it's hard to recommend this

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at 650. do I think it's cool and I think it's kind of a step in the right

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direction for Chrome OS becoming a more versatile operating system is that what

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Chrome OS should be if for some reason you're like yes

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I would love to game but I need to be on Chrome West this is actually it's a

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great price it's a great product the big question as are with all Chromebooks is

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Chrome OS right for you but do you know

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what would be right for you subscribing to ShortCircuit thanks for watching if

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