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hey how's it going thank you dear so this is the ACS c30 - it's their Chromebook their top-of-the-line Chromebook and I don't do much coverage of Chromebooks on this channel least I haven't in the past because I feel like this type of hardware Chromebooks their value is highly dependent on their software like without a good software experience this whole ecosystem doesn't work very well and in the past that has been great but recently actually in the very near future these will become awesome so before I get into the whole like review of this particular unit I need to talk about the state of Chromebooks in early 2017 so Chromebooks have traditionally been just like okay if you don't know what a Chromebook is if a inexpensive laptop like device well it's basically a laptop and it runs Chrome OS which is a software made by Google now in order to put applications on these things traditionally you go to something called the Chrome Web Store which is kind of like their App Store so iPhones have the App Store Android phones have the Google Play Store Chromebooks have something called well they used to have something called the Chrome Web Store which is their application kind of library the problem with that developers just didn't develop much for the Chrome Web Store like most of the popular applications weren't available on the Chrome Web Store so Google did this thing last year where they're like hey we're going to allow Android applications the ones that you would see on your Android phone we're going to put those onto Chromebooks in the near future and that is right now in the next week or two they're going to be rolling out across most Chromebooks at least all the current generation ones and future generation Chromebooks they're going to be able to run Android applications so at first glance it's not like a huge thing yeah it's like a bunch of apps are coming into the system but this really is a game changer so not only do you have just a gigantic library of apps now you're now able to do stuff offline so if you want to do editing of documents offline if you want to play games offline if you want to download videos and watch stuff off Netflix offline you can now do this on a Chromebook these are basically full-fledged computers so the addition of these Android apps into this Chromebook ecosystem I think it's going to heavily affect the sales and the livelihood of Android tablet this is a Galaxy Tab as 3 came out week maybe two weeks ago and I feel like these products are dead on arrival I just why would you purchase that when you could buy these for half the price and they're just as if not more capable than those some apps don't work it like this cocaine this is a really popular photo editing app and when I try to install it it says it's incompatible but chances are if your favorite app isn't available right now there's going to be an alternative or two or ten that are available and able to run on Chromebooks already so in general I think if you are an average user I mean I know a lot of my audience are like they're heavy gamers or just photo or video editors if you're one of those people then you probably won't be able to use this as like your only machine maybe it's like a secondary device but for most people you can get by with a Chromebook the app store selection is huge so yeah I think that's just the state of Chromebooks right now so I want to talk about the device in specific now so this is the Asus c30 2 and personally I think this is the best Chromebook right now it's expensive it's $500 and I guess let's talk about the things that I do like about it first so it's got great build quality full aluminum build everything is solid there's no plastic on the device everything from the hinge to the finish feels good top to your device there is like you can see over here that it wasn't milled from a single block of aluminum there's like two pieces that they put together but the build quality on this thing is quite good there's to use BC ports and there's no use ba ports obviously not a huge selection of ports but it's a Chromebook and you probably won't be connecting to many devices to this thing you also have your micro SD slot and then on the other side you have your volume rocker power button and audio jack the screen is 24 hundred by 13 40 it's reasonably bright and color accurate I'd say it's about average for a higher end laptop or Chromebook there are better screens out there but I like this one a lot performance is pretty strong strong enough I mean for what we would do on a Chromebook I can easily have 10 chrome tabs open with Spotify Netflix or twitch running in the background and it'll handle it with ease the 64 gigs of storage gills a little light especially if you're coming from laptop but you can easily add microSD cards if you want I will say though if you're interested in purchasing I would highly recommend getting the upgraded one like the one with the core M processor I've used the Pentium processor and it feels noticeably slower it's not that much cheaper so I highly recommend getting the upgraded version with more storage and a faster processor ok let's talk about the keyword this is why I've crowned this Asus as the best Chromebook it's backlit 1.4 millimeters travel perfect layout there's really nothing I would change about this keyboard maybe like the springs could be a little bit stiffer but really it's a great keyboard it feels a lot like the MacBook Air and for what I use a Chromebook for and what I think is a lot of people will be using Chromebooks for the typing experience has to be awesome and this really nails it very few Chromebooks do and so there's another competitor to this that I would consider to be like the second-best Chromebook out there which is the Samsung Chromebook plus that the keyboard and that is significantly worse than this that's why I prefer this the other thing that I really liked about this like device as to why I think it's the best it's the flip so a lot of devices when you flip it into tablet mode it's just not a comfortable device this thing is relatively light 2.6 pounds but it's also the ergonomics like when you hold this thing it feels like an actual tablet and I think if you're going to have a two-in-one device if your tablet mode your tent mode and your laptop mode are all really comfortable to use you've done a good job the trackpad is less awesome surface feels good but it lacks perfect precision you'll get the occasional jitter it is a decent trackpad though the battery life is great it's a 39 watt hour battery you'll comfortably hit eight or more hours on this thing so I've been able to hit eight hours with screen at 215 it's keyboard backlighting on I mean it's a Chromebook not pulling too much juice so it's going to last it also uses USB C charging if you have other USB C devices that's a nice bonus the speakers are also decent they're positioned nicely you get a good stereo effect and they're clear enough there's no fan noise on this thing so audio comes out pretty clean but it's a small speaker on a Chromebook so it's not going to be amazing there's a few things I don't love about this Chromebook I wish the screen was brighter 300 nits is fine for indoor use but if you bring it outdoors it's not ideal the other thing are the bezels so these bezels are I mean they're not cute or anything but when you have it adlet mode especially because you have that Asus logo on the side it doesn't look like a particularly elegant screen I wish these dazzles are smaller but that's about it there's really not much a dislike about this Chromebook now it's not cheap it's $500 which is actually quite expensive for a Chromebook but in 2017 you're not going to get this kind of build quality unless you're paying this kind of money so is it worth it I think it is especially consider the Android apps that are coming in if you can make this fit into your workflow I think this is a really good 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