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it's a Chromebooks but it's not the least expensive option out there I'm Dan Ackerman and this is the a sous flip C 100 Chromebook 1 of a new generation of Chromebooks that Google is promoting using different components that's got a CPU from Rockchip as opposed to Intel and it's also got some features you very rarely see in Chromebooks it has a touchscreen first of all we have seen that before but only I think one other time ever seen one that also has a hybrid hinge which means you can fold it back like this into what we call kind of the kiosk mode or you can just fold it all the way down into a tablet and I find that the accelerometer here actually works really well in terms of flipping the image this way if you can read it's sort of a portrait style as opposed to landscape style and then of course when you're done you can just flip it all the way back around now with this different architecture inside we found the battery actually lasts a really long time more than 12 hours in our video streaming test however and our benchmark test this guy was significantly slower than other inexpensive Chromebooks that we tried however it's a Chromebook so you're really just going to be surfing the web that shouldn't make too much of a difference in day-to-day use because it can double as a tablet when you flip it over it deactivates the keyboard and if you tap on a text field you actually get a little on-screen keyboard right here that you can use it's a special compact chrome key where you could switch the full keyboard if you want to that means the keys very small and hard to use you can also use handwriting recognition in this keyboard field down here so a lot of ways to interact with the device now it's got an aluminum body which is better than the plastic Chromebooks we see from just about everybody else even though it's still very inexpensive $250 considering the the metal body and the touch screen of the hybrid hinge however there are full Windows eight systems such as the $200 HP stream 11 orchid it Intel compute stick for about $170 that actually cost less than this so even though it's a budget Chromebook it's nowhere near the bottom of the price barrel I'm gonna equina and that's this is Chromebook flip 100