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- When is a laptop not a laptop? When it's a lapdock.

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This is the NextDock Touch,

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NextDock Two Touch. I forget if it's something like that.

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We've reviewed the NextDock Two on Linus Tech Tips,

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last year? I forget exactly when it was. Editor, will tell you now.

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And when we did that video, I was like, I like doing these kinds of products where it's like

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it doesn't really make a ton of sense for the average person, but it's something that makes you think.

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It's something that makes you imagine a future where we're all flying in cars and it's a utopia

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and there's people trying to hunt down Androids and retire them by force

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because they're getting becoming sentient. You know, that kind of thing.

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So the NextDock Two was really cool but the one thing that we really wanted it to have,

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that it didn't have yet is a touch screen. So this one apparently has a touch screen and it's added,

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it's kind of refined the design a little bit more. So, as usual, there's no knife to open these things.

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So I'm using James's screwdriver. Ooh, I almost stabbed myself.

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I didn't even say what this thing is. It's a lapdock, which means that there's no

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laptop brains inside, there's no computer in it.

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It's just a shell, to which you are supposed to connect

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like a phone or a Raspberry PI. You'll see, if that doesn't make sense.

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I'll show you, don't worry. It's really cool, okay.

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Ooh. Oh, okay.

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So that was a somewhat unglamorous way of dumping all this stuff out, but

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This is like a micro USB to USB-C.

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It looks like an HDMI to micro HDMI adapter, cool.

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These are all power adapters for various regions, I believe.

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Okay, so there are still cords.

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Here's a USB-C to C, which we need to connect the phone.

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HDMI, USB-C to micro USB and USB type A.

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So that is for a Raspberry Pi,

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or a similar kind of micro PC device.

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I like this packaging, hey? You got the saw you got the closed cell foam.

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Not only that, but they also, have

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What do you call this air pocket? What would I what would you call this?

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Inflatable pool toy packaging,

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a life preserver, a lapdock preserver.

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Quick start guide. Okay, let go, let's just look through this real quick.

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Just do some light reading, just so I know. You don't wanna see my knees, Andy?

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Look, it's beautiful.

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Help! So right away, I noticed that they may be listened to us.

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One of the things we said about the other NextDock, the pre touch NextDock,

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was the fact that the finish on it felt kinda rough.

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Like, they did this kind of like, blasted aluminum look

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that you know, it looks like a MacBook type of thing or a ZenBook or whatever you wanna do.

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But if it felt a little rougher than you'd expect and this feels already a bit smoother, so that's nice.

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Nice job, NextDock. And, let's look at the ports.

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So can you see that, Andy? We've got the same ports, it looks like.

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One HDMI, which is how you would

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connect to something other than a smartphone to put a video onto the display.

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And actually you can connect anything with an HDMI output. You can kind of connect game consoles,

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other things with HDMI upwards, I guess, a computer, I guess a regular PC.

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And then you have three USB-C ports, which are all meant for different things.

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So, this one is for charging. This one is for,

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I believe for the Raspberry Pi. And I think this is a multi-use one.

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You can use it for Raspberry Pis and for like data. And then this one is to connect your smartphone.

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On the other side, we have a USB three type A port, a headphone jack, and a micro,

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yeah, micro SD card slot, nice. Very nice.

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They really took some measures to protect this thing.

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Like it had that extra layer of like, bump protection and now they had,

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they had a keyboard protector and a plastic

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screen protector. That glossy screen looks nice.

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It looks nicer than I remember on the other one. Okay, the feel is pretty similar to the original NextDock.

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One thing that I said about it was that I thought the keys were a bit large

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and I think that appears to be the case here as well.

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I don't know how that. Aren't I aren't like laptop keys kind of a standard size?

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But it's not anything horrible, like obviously if you know how to type on a keyboard,

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you can still type, It's just like, Oh, I don't need that,

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I don't need that much space. What are you trying to say about my fat fingers, NextDock?

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Wow, is this track pad even bigger than the last one? I feel like it is.

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And also again, the finish on it is a lot nicer,

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so nice to see that, NextDock. Nice, job.

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One other thing I wanna say about the physical design before we get into it,

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is this little notch here. This wasn't here the last time.

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Can you see that, Andy? This thing? They added a little nipple nubbin.

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It doesn't have a webcam. This is like a little vent. I can see that there's a vent there.

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I don't know whether that's input or output, probably output. But I guess maybe this also serves a function of

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allowing a little more air pass through there. I don't know.

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It's time to plug stuff in. I got a Samsung Galaxy S20 5G.

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Now in case you're wondering why the heck you would ever

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want something like this, we kinda go over it in the LTT video.

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So you should definitely watch that if you haven't seen it. Basically the NextDock is a dream,

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for those who, you know, want to realize a future where

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you can have all of your personal info and all of your like PC stuff that you need on your phone.

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Power, okay, so there's a light, there's an LED light. Editor, pull up a shot of the

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NextDock Two non-touch edition bezels. 'Cause they were a lot thicker.

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That was one of the main things that we had a problem with on the first model,

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in addition to the texture stuff. Now, granted, they can make them that thin

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because there is no camera. So that's one of the things that you're losing.

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Although, you have a phone. So if you really need a webcam,

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and it's plugged in like this, boom, you got a,

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get over yourself. And right away, you know what? Before I do anything crazy,

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I wanna hook up this magnetic mount as well. What am I looking at?

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Okay, so we're putting it on. Here we go.

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That seems about right. And now, we put the phone on.

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I should've put it higher up 'cause I'm seeing, there's a bit of a, there's a bit of a bending, bendy cord problem.

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Ooh, that is a, that's a very unfortunate sort of a situation here,

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where it's like, okay cool, look at your, your phone mounted there.

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And then you can't really have it at a certain angle

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before it starts falling back.

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Or you could just keep it there. I'll just keep it there forever. Can I have another internet window?

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Aha, I can! So you can have two browser Windows open side by side.

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This is another big thing I wanted to talk about. The touch pad. On the original NextDock Two,

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the touch pad had this weird like acceleration problem.

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Like you would swipe over and the mouse would just kinda keep going.

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And they appear to have fixed that. This is a lot more snappy.

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It doesn't feel like I'm like out of control. I definitely felt like I could not do things with precision.

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Nice job, NextDock, thank you. Okay, cool.

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The last thing I wanted to do is to take a look at the bottom, because, I opened up the last one

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and I want to see whether there's any major changes. So, let's do it.

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Let go of your, (laughs)

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Oh, this is different. This is two-cell battery. It says 60.8 watt hours,

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which is a lot, well, the last one had 52.

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I think originally, the NextDock Two was gonna ship with like 40 something,

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and then they upped it to 52 watt hours. And now this one has a 60.8 watt hour.

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Great job. Oh, you're here. I just wanted to show you that I took this off.

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Are you proud of me? - [Alex] Ughhh

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- For the first time, I've never touched this laptop and I took it off, are you proud of me?

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- [Alex] What the hell is this laptop? - Are you proud of me? - [Alex] I'm proud of you, Riley.

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- Good, God! It's a lapdock, it's not a laptop.

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Have you ever heard of that? - [Alex] Yeah, so it's like a stamp bottom.

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They didn't CNC it. - You're getting, wait, what?

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- [Alex] Why? - What why? - [Alex] Why so much expensive?

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- Why? Wait, what do you mean? You don't even know how expensive it is.

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Yeah, it's 269 for this thing. - [Ales] I bet. - Yeah, I mean like you could get a Chromebook

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or you could just like get one of these and you could plug your phone in or a Raspberry Pi or a

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whatever you want. (banging on machine)

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Ah, that's not right.

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That's the way, that, that's, the build quality overall,

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has improved in this version.

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But, there is still that kinda feel of like, "Hey, we're like a startup,

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you know, we're trying to prototype quickly and get some of these things out to people who are,

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who are really trying to tinker around with new ways of computing."

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And that's cool, I think that's cool. But know that, you know, it's 269.

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For a relatively high-end build

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you know, there are some things like when you take the panel off the edge is a little bit sharp

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and there's a little bit of flex to the panel. But I mean, I don't know. I think these kinda tinkerers who like,

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go for this kinda thing, are they really complaining, I dunno.

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- [Linus] But it manages to do so with a claimed, zero addition of--

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- That's plenty loud. What's that? - [Linus] And, the exact same TDB as before. - What?

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- [Linus] On top of that, aim (pop music)

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- Okay, so they're, you know, they're not super great laptop speakers or whatever,

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but they'll do, I mean, like I've heard a lot of laptops speakers that are worse.

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Okay, well I'm impressed. I mean, it seems like NextDock has improved

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on most of the things that we had an issue with last time.

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The texture is a lot smoother. The track pad responsiveness is a lot better.

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The bezels, the big fat bezels are gone. There's touch support,

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bigger battery. I, I'm impressed.

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Nice job, NextDock. I, you know, this gives me more faith that

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this kind of future where we all have just our phones as our main computing devices

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is maybe a bit more realistic than it seems.

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Even if, even if Samsung

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might be the only phone manufacturer, really putting a desktop mode in their phones.

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And NextDock, you appear to basically be

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the only manufacturer doing these. I've seen a few other ones,

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and like there's been some on Kickstarter and stuff, but like, they haven't really gone to fruition.

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So even if you guys are the only people who seem to be really pushing this future,

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I think it's a future worth pushing. And keep pushing, pusher.

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All the way to the bank. Probably not, but maybe.

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269 bucks, not bad. And you know what else wouldn't be bad?

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If you checked out more of ShortCircuit's videos.

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'Cause we're making these how many are we making, three or four a week?

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I don't wanna promise that. Tweet Jono, if we're short on videos.

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You can get real mad at him. And after you do that, come back here

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