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what's up everyone John Breton jure from TechnoBuffalo here at the hands-on demonstration is something I'm super excited to show you as a technique or we see a lot of new stuff come through our offices but very few things there is innovative than is interesting to use as this libretto so on first blush it looks just like any other netbook a little bit on the fat side it's small it's light but when you open this thing up that's where the fun starts check that out dual touchscreens looks like a giant Nintendo DS let me go ahead and power this guy on and run through some of the specs so as soon as I opened up the libretto my geek alarms went off I kept thinking how cool is this and then I sort of start to get more practically how can you actually use this I'm gonna go ahead and show you every button power it on here this is running a full version of Windows 7 it is the starter version but you can upgrade it to home or business professional whatever you would like it does have a Pentium chip in it it's actually 1.2 gigahertz dual-core pentium u 5400 it's packin 2 gigs of ddr3 RAM it's got a 62 gig serial ata hard drive as well as an expansion card slot right there on the top for microSD s you can expand the storage space this guy's booting up and does boot up rather quickly so you have a full pentium processor so you're gonna get much much much better than netbook performance not to show you guys when it comes to you flash contents and streaming video so here we are this is Windows 7 looks a little strange asking me to update Adobe Flash we'll go ahead and leave that for just a minute let me go ahead and walk you through it when I saw this thing I understood the top panel okay it's touchscreen Windows 7 kind of just like a small tablet on top what the heck's going on with the bottom let me show you what we have here with the body because this thing does all kinds of stuff that I had never seen a laptop do before so go ahead and tap tap it and open it up so you have these things here called boards you can go and scroll through and have a ton of different boards down here you can add notes you can go ahead and make your own board and add shortcuts for games and things like that but what interested me most was how was I going to input text on something like this well there actually is a keyboard to go ahead and tap that button on the left that pulls up a very full tactic tactile feedback keyboard and typing is actually not that bad on this and you get a few keyboard options you've got sort of a larger one right there I'm going to bring that back get serve a larger keyboard you can go ahead and make that even bigger go ahead and shrink it if you want serve some more number options you can also split it which is a little bit weird and I'll show a part of the screen and that'll be useful and I'll show you in a minute we actually turn this guy on the side look at it like a book similar what we saw with the old Microsoft courier or would have been the courier there's another split keyboard just a number pad and then back to the keyboard so Windows 7 is certainly optimized for a four touch but it's a very awkward to go ahead and sort of touch around here on one of these dual seven inch capacitive screens which I should say have a resolution of 12 24 by 600 so you're not looking at the highest resolution here in the world but it will get the job done that's actually a resolution of 124 by 600 so the bottom screen here turns off and you're just gonna pretty much use a computer as you'd like let's talk about navigation first certainly and go ahead and use your finger and poke around on these small icons and go where you want to go if you want to check out control panels you can go ahead and do that a little bit cumbersome because the screen is so small actually to shoot was include something that makes this really handy so button in the bottom right hand corner opens up what looks like a full trackpad you can go and navigate now nice and easily now Toshiba made this knowing they weren't going to get a huge adoption right it was actually just made it because they could serve a show innovation celebrate the 25th anniversary it's gonna set you back just about eleven twelve hundred bucks so it's not a cheap proposition and they made just a very limited supply so it's sort of a wall supply the last kind of thing so if you're interested in getting one you probably should go ahead and jump on it so as you go ahead and use this virtual touchpad at the bottom I actually get haptic feedback as you go over menu options and I thought now getting to be extremely while using this so go remind me later here for flash I took me a while to actually find that touchpad option but once I did things worked very well all right let me go ahead and show you some of the performance things we got here let's go ahead and jump on into Windows Explorer and this is a full computer so don't be fooled the big penis is a netbook and you might because of its size one interesting sort of feature while this page is loading up the bottom of this stays very very very cool the top part it's actually where all the computer stuff are so the top parts getting get very hot you're gonna hear often a lot of fan noise you can see there's a lot of fan vents there but when you put this thing on your lap you're not going to fry your business off because the bottom part says not where the computer components are and will stay very cool something to kind of keep in mind alright so let's take a look at the web browser so you can go ahead and scroll the feedback is pretty these in here it does have pinch-to-zoom so you can zoom in it's not the most fluid thing i've seen in the world but it does indeed work let me go ahead and jump on over to let's go say my youtube channel so i'll go ahead and navigate over there and I will use the on-screen keyboard to type this you can see how effective or ineffective it is so now I want to move that trackpad out of the way I'm gonna go ahead and minimize it now I can go ahead and just type like normal so I can do www.youtube.com getting used to to type on this thing it's not awful but I wouldn't you're not gonna go ahead and write your novel and take this guy to Starbucks with you to do that just sort of keep in mind so let's go and jump right to YouTube and we'll hit enter you saw it actually moved that touchpad up to the top kind of interesting alright so here is YouTube let's go ahead and go to one of the videos I'm I cannot we'll do a quick search just so I can play it for not very bad nature of copyright stuff you can see what YouTube's performance is going to be so let John for and there it go it pulls one of them up go ahead and select it hit enter and there is a video there is around one of the Mac versus PC series go ahead and click that and it looks like pretty smoothly things playback is really nice the speakers aren't necessarily overly loud but it does work go ahead and see if I got the volume here turned down but it's very smooth much smoother than general Network performance and Hulu by the way plays very well on this as well so I'm looking for something to get a take on the road this guy might actually work out quite well for you when I go ahead and close all this stuff when you bring back my touchpad John reason is up there there's all these options you'll have buttons to sort of move them down and move them up to see those arrows down or arrows up that arrow down is going to push it down there let me go ahead and close this window here go ahead and see Matt talking and let's talk about the form factor here when I saw this form factor first thing I thought it was games and books am i calling it the libretto clearly they had one of those in mind and there is a built-in ereader in here and supposedly you can use all open epub and PDF formats a lot of had a very hard time actually getting context over to the device but there are some books on here let me go ahead and show you what we've got to work with I should also mention that it does have an accelerometer so you can turn it before you get into the book side of it and it'll actually reorient itself using Windows 7 in this sort of book ish form factor would necessary to say it's the most user-friendly way to use a laptop but you definitely can if you want to sort of sit on the train or something look at a website you know have part of the website here and part of the website here you definitely can or have two sites one open on each side let me go ahead and show you that books and we'll use it in this form factor and I don't turn the whole computer off here so the accelerometer again it is as you can see very sensitive so how you're how you're using this take a little while to orient itself so go ahead and hit the start button there you go let's go ahead and check out some of the books programs we'll go to all programs my to Shuba and there we have to achieve a book like I can into a Shiva folder I can click on it out using my fat thumb which is not appear to be possible it's definitely part of the issues with it it's got bluetooth so if you want to use a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse you definitely can get either to 11 B G and n built in here as well alright so the book place is opened up you can sort of see the reflective screen there once again these are capacitive screens so sort of these styluses that perhaps we might have used on older touchscreen devices is not going to function you guys can get a whole view of my office here in the reflection and it should it be opening up with a book place now although I am dubious that it's gonna do that let's try that one more time there programs jump on into to Shuba all right now it's there we go book place powered Babu Leo and one of the things that keep surprising me is I I keep expecting netbook performance from this guy just because of its size and really you end up getting much much much better so we'll go ahead and open up a book here just pick one and this is sort of one of the most natural ways to use a libretto just actually use it like a book and I will today I take this thing out and I was sort of using and exploring it just out in the bow I kept getting some very odd stairs no one's ever seen anything like this before and that includes this tech reviewer so is very sort of interesting and fun to learn how to use so accelerometer kicked in again let's go ahead and let that come back hopefully we're gonna see a book open up here alright so now we do actually have a book opened up and you can go ahead and turn the pages and just start reading hit the arrows I'll wait there's an easier way to do it it's not the smoothest experience in the world the program is a bit jumpy there's a lot of reflection as you can see here you're gonna get a decent amount of eye strain trying to do any serious amount of reading on this guy but if your student you've gotta read a quick PDF before class or do a case study it's going to get the job done I'm gonna go ahead and push this guy back let it reorient itself and I should also mention that it's got a relatively decent web built-in there it's a one megapixel sensor so in case you want to do your web chatting or skype chatting you've got the option to do so let's go ahead and close this up you know often times you try and use your fingers it's hard to navigate Windows 7 but it does work they've made things a bit friendlier easy to be used when you try and do a larger scale items let me go ahead and show you some of the large windows that'll pop up here well go ahead and back and open up Internet Explorer and if I hit the back button you get a whole bunch of options you can do to close or move to make things a bit easier and optimized for touch I hope you guys enjoyed this overview and sort of review of the Toshiba libretto it's one of those things that's very fun to use there's a huge novelty factor you think something with the dual touch screens from a practical standpoint I think I would go crazy having to use this thing on an everyday basis but it is fun it is unique and certainly kind of kind of cool to see something a bit different so guys I am John Grainger from TechnoBuffalo I'll have this for another few days if there's something that you want to see go ahead and leave it in the comments and I will show you see you guys in the next video buh-bye