SelmaTeacher7 Mr. Berry here. today I want to look into the reasons why like the Acer Chromebook 15
touch and let's start with reason number one being that I can do Android apps fullscreen and other
applications for screen on a separate monitor let's take a look so normally this is the way
that I use my ASA Chromebook the only difference would be normally my Acer Chromebook is over on
the left and my big screen is over on the right now when I click on show multiple windows goes
in and I can actually see all the apps that are running on this display as well as on this one
here and on this I have the classic plans and then I have one of my books is up I'm sorry the
managing that and I'll go on this screen I have my twilight zone so now what I'll do is I wanna
click on this one here and have everything going as if I was working with it notice it's very very
fast I can do my classic lands and be watching my movie over here so then you play the movie
let's see there we go so normally whenever I'm doing work I have a show some type of TV program
going on maybe Twilight Zone The Price is Right I have lost a Peretz and that's usually playing
while I'm doing my work over here so then you pause this here and let's say that I checked
my clash of clans and now I want to go in and do my work well I'll click on the button that
is above the six there are the show multiple windows and now I'll click on my work this is
less than ten for my book and this is going over comparing solid-state drives and artist drivers
so that I can go in there and also I usually I do really love the keyboard and the mouse
and the touchscreen but in this configuration I'm using an external keyboard and an external
Mouse so let's play the movie here there you go and then I'll go in and began editing my book
and ago so as I'm typing here my messages are coming up here and like I said earlier normally
I have my laptop on in front of me and then the big screen is over over on to the side but I have
it configured this way just so that you can see everything working together so that leads us to
reason number two productivity so let's take a look okay now we see the laptop as it should be
I unplugged the keyboard the external mouse and the display and I'm using it all as a portable
device so here's twice own work with you know then you mute that there we go and as it plays
I'm gonna be showing you what I do with my work on the other side so here I have Google Docs open
to one of my chapters in the book and I can edit all the books I have on the way in all my scripts
everything all my lessons were all pretty easy Google Docs I do have Microsoft Office online
as you see here however I have actually found Google Docs to have more features and to be
easier to use than Microsoft Word and I used to use Microsoft Word soli that's all I used during
the 1990s all the way up to about 2011 and then I switched went to Google Docs and I never gone
back now I do still have Microsoft Office and I use it just occasionally just to create lessons
when I when that is being called for to be showing something in Microsoft Word but that's to see what
Google Docs does for me here I can insert images as you see here or actually create images so this
is a created image that I made I can insert the text and go with tables as well I can also go
in and do things such as word art so let's just say that I click down here and I want to insert
some word art I just go over here to insert and then down to drawing and then from there I go to
actions and then I click on word art and this is to say that I type in m dot two drives and then
when I'm done I hit enter and there's n dot two drives now I can go in and change my fonts I'm
gonna go in and change it to Lobster change my color to the sidewalk orange and then I'm going
to rotate it just a little bit there there we go and I'll click on save there and it puts it in for
me now from here I can go in and resize it to do other things too such as change its wrapping style
and also how it I can make it float in front of pictures or behind pictures whatever you need to
do I can also like I said insert images so if I go in and let's say I wanted an image to appear
here I'll go and click on insert image and then I can choose upload from my computer or search the
web or I can actually look at my own pictures that I've already saved in my google photos so as you
can see I really use this machine as a document creation and I also use it for creating videos
as you see I'm actually doing it right now while I'm playing a movie so it's really cutting a lot
of work for me and that leads us to our next point it's battery life so let's take a look now on the
topic - battery life I've been able to use this machine all day long to do my work and you say
well yeah maybe so what does that actually mean so what I did yesterday is I unplugged it from
power and then I to do a video so I was running a video all day and the video volume was that set
at 50% and I started at 8 o'clock in the morning and I would watch it as I was doing my work and on
another machine just just keeping my eye on it and the battery lasted 11 hours and 15 minutes
until it was down there - it said 1% going to you know want to turn off so there you go now with the
the computer here you can't actually go in and if I go into new tab you can type in a command
and I'll show the command here now if you type in this command it will show you your battery
life and other aspects about your battery like how many watts you're actually consuming at that time
and here's some screenshots I took right after the test so in this screenshot in the blue we see the
gradual discharging of the battery and notice as we started it just around 8 o'clock in the morning
and it goes all the way down and it's stopped at 7:15 in the evening below that we see the wattage
used so the red line that you see there on that second chart is actually the wattage being used
and go it fluctuates depending on the sound that's going on in the video and that takes us
to our next point sound quality now here we have two speakers and I was actually using the internal
speakers doing the battery test I wasn't trying to cheat and make it go longer was he using the
battery and I had the touch screen everything was enabled and I have not touched or changed
the brightness on the keyboard by the way you can change the brightness on the keyboard if you ever
want to simply click on alt and then the smaller circle there for dim and if you want it back on
click on alt and click on the bright button which I show here on the overhead there you go now it's
back on so the audio quality is great I really I really love it I haven't had any issues with
it now when I first got them the unit from Amazon I did notice a crackling sound the very first day
I used it but it only occurred for a few seconds by the time I walked back into my office to see
what was going on the sound never came back it was gone and I haven't been able to find the source of
it now since then I've been in communication with other people and there's one person who
says oh yeah she had the same type of problem but it was a continuous crackling sound that
happened all the time while the sound was going on that's terrible so she returned them and then
got some other one you know what I did on this unit cuz I really want to know what could have
caused this oh I went all out on this problem trying to figure out what may have caused it to
crackle now again for me only happened for about one and a half two seconds max and by the time I
came back to the office to see what the sound was it was totally gone and I could never replicate
that sound I had the volume on max and since then I that's the way I usually have it playing most
of the time is on Max and then I'm doing my work what I did I actually dismantled the entire unit
and I removed the speakers and I looked at the speakers to see if there was any type of cracked
or broken plastic or to see if the diaphragm was you know something wrong with the diaphragm maybe
it was cracked or had something wrong with it I found no defects I rebuilt the machine put
it all back together and as you could see today it's it's been working well I then went in and I
started talking to other people and what could cause something like this and one of the ideas
that came back was well maybe just maybe at the warehouse or someplace during manufacturing some
of the units were exposed a strong magnetic field and what that could do is that could distort the
diaphragm caused the magnet to attach or get stuck to one side of the diaphragm in the end
right when you've turned on the sound you would hear that crackling sound until the magnet freed
itself from that one edge and that would allow the diaphragm to move freely there again without
the cracking sound so that was one idea that came out that perhaps some of the units were exposed
to a magnetic field and that's why we're hearing them anyway like I said I haven't had that problem
except for that one and a half two seconds and that was it going on beyond the audio we
have the keyboard now the keyboard is a backlit keyboard and I love that because I sometimes I
work at night and it's just really nice to have a backlit keyboard here's what the keyboard actually
looks like in total darkness and as I said earlier you can adjust or turn off that backlit simply by
going to alt and then dim and then if you want it back on you go Alt key and then bright so going on
next we have the touch screen and I really love the touch screen it's it's really nice because
I can go in and I can zoom in on things zoom out whatever I need to do there it's very responsive
I do play Android applications and android games on this machine and it just it's very responsive
for that so I like to touch screen as far as the brightness well if you can see it there but it's
very very bright and crystal clear I did go with the full high-definition 1080p screen I didn't go
with the standard resolution there is one a model from the Acer Chromebook 15 line I think it's the
cb3 532 or so that has a standard display and it's dimmer because I have one of those too it's dimmer
and it's not as clear so I mean so when you set these two together right away you'll see that the
model has a dimmer displays not nearly as bright the contrast is lower so there's love this full
contrast that you see here and that also means that the colors in the older model look more
muted or less saturated so overall I really love this display that both the touch screen and the
brightness and the visual appearance of it next off let's go with the actual construction of this
unit well it has very easy to see and to fill and to listen to it this is a full aluminum chassis
down here around the keyboard and touchpad so this is all aluminum and up so goes around so you have
aluminum all on the sides which is nice if you look on the top of the lid I thought this was
just pure plastic at first because of the sound it was making now I have many laptops both ones
that have the plastic lids and others that have a full aluminum lid such as the Apple laptops and it
didn't sound the same as the aluminum laptops they're from Apple yet it didn't quite sound
the same as the plastic ones so I was rather confused for a while and - I finally dug into
it and found this it has a thin aluminum veneer so this is aluminum underneath this and this is
why it's so wide right here underneath this you have a shell of plastic for support so you have
a support structure underneath this it's making contact with the aluminum so when it gets banged
or something like that it doesn't dent as easily as a thin aluminum sheet would because it has
that backing of plastic so there you go that solves the rim of the problem it is aluminum
veneer over a plastic shell for the lid as far as everything else though you do have nice and
it's thicker olodum down there for the bottom of it it is plastic there and now let's go on
to the ports so we'll go over on this side here we the microphone then we have the micro SD then
a standard USB type a and then we have the newer USB type-c on the other side we have
the Kingston lock USB type-c and both of those USB type seas are for power so you can actually
plug in your charger right into either side and then another USB type a and that's it now if you
want to connect this to a monitor that is an HDMI monitor how you going to do that well you plug in
one of these this is a simple adapter and it has a USB type-c on one side and HDMI on the others so
that worked great for sending out the image to an external display so now you know why I love
and use my Acer Chromebook 15 touch everyday just about all day long please click on thumbs up share
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any questions that you have about that I also have another video reviewing of the same product
there and I'll leave the link there at the end of this video there thank you very much and bye bye