hey folks Robbie paying with chroma and
box coming at you today with an unboxing
of the Lenovo ThinkPad Chromebook 13 now
this device was announced back at CES in
January and has just now become
available for purchase you can get it
straight from Lenovo comm comes in a
variety of models we'll talk about that
a little bit more in the review but
today we have the base model in it has
the 6th gen Celeron processor and it 4
gigs of ram and 16 gigs internal storage
so without any further ado let's get
this thing unboxed so here we have it
straight in from China it looks like
this was order through Lenovo website
and my guess is that came straight from
Lenovo not from here in the US so it
could be part of the reason the shipping
took a little while I want to say a
couple weeks but I think they're
shipping out now without delay so we're
right into it I figure there would be a
box inside this box here we are not that
elegantly packed up but again I've
talked about this before a lot of
Chromebooks aren't it comes down to
budget saving money on extra packing
materials usually helps out a little bit
so we have a USB C charger which is
pretty cool it's got a little yellow
ring around it just kind of fun or green
hard to tell in this light and then
we've just got a block the head does not
detach it doesn't look like no but a
nice a nice block not a big bulky junky
kind of thing but you didn't come here
to look at chargers you came here to see
a Chromebook and so let's take a look at
this thing up top we have the ThinkPad
moniker and chrome moniker we're on the
side here let's get focused in we've got
a USB super-speeds a 3.0 combo headphone
microphone to USB CS over here so three
USB ports on one side pretty sweet
Kensington lock on the side
nothing across the back saved those
hinges on the side we've got a huge fan
port which looks a little a little retro
but hey we'll go that another SuperSpeed
let's look up close yep
yes another super speeds another USB 3.0
so four USB ports in total that's pretty
sweet
full full-size SD card slot and nothing
across the front on the bottom we have
the grills for the fans obviously down
rear facing speakers this could be not
so great from a speaker standpoint as
you guys well know I'm never really a
fan of speakers in general on laptops
but this could be troublesome because
it's it's not like on the Dell there
downward facing kind of on that on that
curve so it helps them shoot out a
little bit to the sides these are
straight down so we'll see we'll see how
it turns out so that's the tool around
the outside of the device open er up see
no one hand open bummer but no big deal
and on the inside if you've seen a think
pad before a lot of this is going to
look pretty familiar this thing just
looks like a stock black laptop but the
things that Lenovo and IBM before had
been really awesome at in the ThinkPad
series is great keyboard and a great
trackpad and so we're going to know a
little bit about that it's hard to tell
what the surface is but it feels really
good nice and smooth
I've always been pretty pleased with
lenovo's trackpad in general keys have
huge travel I mean they just are so
clicky this is going to be a joy to type
on guarantee it and they have a slight
slight shape to them kind of a u-shape
just barely but lenovo or ThinkPads in
general have always had just amazing
keyboards we had a webcam up top and
that's about it guys I mean that there's
not a whole lot going on here that's out
of the ordinary it just feels really
really well built all right guys we got
it powered on and into guest mode so we
can run an octane score it's like I said
before we are running the skylake
Celeron processor here four gigs of ram
16 gigs internal storage so this is kind
of the base
model one issue that I've already seen
that I was not aware of and I'm going to
have to check with Lenovo obviously and
try to get the correct model in here I
did pay for the 1080p screen and was not
sent the 1080p device this is a 1366 by
768 so this is the full entry-level
model that was the one selection I did
choose to upgrade and go to so that's a
little disappointing but it's not going
to stop us from taking a look at this
guy and it doesn't change a lot of the
hardware features my hope is that the
screen is better while this is running
it does you who are thinking about hey
my might not upgrade the screen you can
see that this is a pretty crappy TN
panel it's not on IP s by any stretch of
the imagination
and so the viewing angles are pretty
poor but we'll leave that aside for now
that's unfortunate but hopefully we'll
get it straightened out before the
review comes out but like I said overall
it's not going to change the keyboard
it's not going to change the trackpad
it's not going to change a lot of the
parts of the device it won't change the
speed too much this one will behave a
little quicker than then it's 1080p
counterpart because it's not going to
have to push as many pixels and we're
going to run it one more time because
sometimes you just got to close Google
out and do it again but that score is
actually not that much better than what
we saw on the Acer chrome beasts which
is a fifth gen Celeron so if that score
holds I'm a little disappointed that six
six gen Celeron doesn't step up a couple
thousand in octane that's kind of a
bummer but you know 16 16 to 17 thousand
is not a bad score in any way shape or
form so take that with a grain of salt
again the scores probably drop a little
bit when we and especially real-world
use would slow down just a little bit on
a 1080p screen versus this HD screen the
1366 by 768 will let this guy finish up
here and we'll take a listen to those
speakers and kind of see where they how
they sound especially being straight
down firing trackpad feels good tracking
is really good nice and smooth yes
sixteen to fifty so not really that much
of an improvement which is a little a
little shocking to me so let me get
logged into my account now and we will
get this wrapped up alright so got
everything logged in and got some google
music up here so we're going to list a
little bit Switchfoot this is it max
and it's actually odd I don't know if
you're gonna be able to pick this up as
I turn it over it's almost as if the
speaker are set up to come up through
the keyboard or a beer I'm not really
sure I mean they're they're not the
loudest things in the world but it's not
too bad they got a decently full sound
too and I'm actually pretty shocked how
well the sound actually comes upward so
again laptop speakers really what you
want them for is to be able to handle a
hangouts video call or something like
that and so I think they'll do a great
job with that overall I like the build
even just typing around to get around
what I've done so far has been really
good the the keyboard and trackpad are
excellent so far so obviously we'll talk
about these things more in the review
and it may take me a little bit longer
to get this review out because obviously
I now I need to get Lenovo to send me
the proper one with a 1080p screen so I
think that's what most people are going
to be a little more interested in on
though for myself
I'd much rather use a 1080p screen
because this display is not good and
that's not shocking usually these full
just the regular HD screens tend to be
pretty washed out and have poor viewing
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