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just barely fits

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and it does look oh my god oh

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what zabek is this

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today we're gonna be looking at the zebek try screen 2. it's like an extra

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two displays that uh attach onto your laptop allowing you to have the triple

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screen experience which is amazing because nothing's more frustrating than

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getting really used to having multiple monitors and then having to go work on

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your laptop for a long amount of time and it's just brutal having to you're

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always fiddling with your Windows and stuff like this this allows you to maintain a semblance of portability

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without having to deal with having a tiny screen and I'm pretty excited about

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it so let's take a look let's what do they say on the back of the box about

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the zbex try screen is it zbek or zebek I don't know so the future of work

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reimagined the zebex try screen 2 adds two additional screens to any laptop

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maximize productivity without sacrificing portability time to free

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myself let's open it this is a fun presentation

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looks like right here they have a QR code for like a quick setup guide that's

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nice wow welcome to the zebek family I'm part

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of it so what we have in the box is here the screen the screens itself inside we

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have a user guide with a QR code so if

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you want to if you don't like paper additional accessories and cables two

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HDMI mini HDMI two USB a to USBC USBC 90

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degree pass-through charging adapter a velcro cable tie two USBC two USBC

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cables and a USBC extender

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oh and look at that some stickers

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there's a little bit of background to the ShortCircuit if a few months ago on

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Linus Tech tips we covered a product called the quumsy P2 Pro and we were

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pretty excited about it because it was like this product that had for so long

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had been like hinted at with a phrasers like project Valerie or whatever well

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you'll see in that video is that we found that there was another company called portable that was uh doing a

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Kickstarter at the time and they were basically a scam artist is what we've deduced apparently they haven't shipped

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anything I haven't looked up recently if they have clumsy was able to you know

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deliver a product however we got an

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email from the CEO of zebek who wanted to tell us his side of the story clumsy

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has allegedly infringed upon zebex patents two of them so they have active

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lawsuits going on right now this doesn't mean that that clumsy actually did that

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but there's a tendency for these no-name Chinese manufacturers to find like a

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good idea on a Kickstarter and then they can ramp up production and get to Market

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before that Kickstarter can actually go through it so lots of times you'll see

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companies do things like they'll make a product for another company and then

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sell it out the back door as their own product the CEO of zebek told me about

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how their first manufacturer was actually doing this so they had to move

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and find another manufacturer clumsy basically just found their product

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copied it as closely as possible while making enough changes to kind of get

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away with it but clumsy even went so far as to use these guys's manuals they

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would like actually just put in the zebek manual and it would have a link to

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zebex support So when people had problems with their clumsy monitors

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they would go and clog up zebek like it

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would screw zebek over so they had to deal with like all of this extra like BS

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just because clumsy was using it I had a lot of issues with it you can go see that video on last tech tips Linus liked

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it but uh it did it did things but it didn't do anything particularly well and

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it seemed like a very first generation product what I'm hoping is that the

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zebek tri-screen 2 also being at the second generation of this product has

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ironed out a lot of those Kinks so we're going to take a look at that today it

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comes folded up like this I'm trying to figure out how I even open it there's a

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kickstand here okay and that comes out

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interesting so you would take your laptop

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just take this MacBook again so what the clumsy would do is that it would like

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you have a button it would extend outwards and then you could just kind of Ratchet and adjust it to the exact

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dimensions of your screen this one does not

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have that kind of ratcheting mechanism so I believe that that's what this strap

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is for but I don't know how it would stay maybe there's stickers or something

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already I'm noticing one thing that I like about this and that's that your

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screens are protected when they're closed when they're on the back of your laptop

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they're not exposed to the rest of the world like they were with the Quincy

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which was like just freaking stupid oh

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I see I wasn't supposed to take this out

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mistakes were made okay

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so this elastic band is going to do is that it is that it's gonna make this so

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that it stays tight to your laptop it prevents you from pulling it out

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super far and it would just fall off so what I will do is I'll take it I'll

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extend it we'll place it on the top of the laptop

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and as you can see it's pretty heavy

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your laptop hinge is not going to be able to handle this on its own which is

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why they include this kickstand it kind of flimsy though do you see that bend

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that's a lot of flex there I wish it was metal you actually will need this to be

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the full length this is kind of having the is

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there another one on the other side no this is kind of having the same issue as

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like the Nintendo switch kickstand where it's like

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boom baby here we go oh yes and it

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curves in another stupid thing about the clumsy monitors which they're like we

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have 270 degrees of uh movement but uh the 270 degrees was like from here to

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like here whereas this actually has a way to pull it in so I'm not so wide

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like because then I can still have the screens but I'm not taking up a ton of

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space all right so let's get her plugged in so this is already showing why they

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give you so many goddamn cables is because if you're in a scenario where

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you're on an older laptop like this MacBook and you don't have the USBC

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you'll have to adapt to the USB type A

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like this so the wires are away from me okay are there buttons on the top so on

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the top of each side there is an on-screen display button a

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and a plus and minus button I imagine those would typically be for brightness

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there are also for navigating the display

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they also send us like this adapter which I guess will allow it to be USB a

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to an HDMI and a USBC and then what's this

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the USB-C

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a arrangement from the display menu That's

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not in here all right the MacBook we're going

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elsewhere oh we tried getting it to work on this

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thing real quick but it was having troubles there are drivers we just

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didn't want to go and install all of them we didn't want to go through the rigmarole of doing exactly what they've

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laid out for us in the instructions uh this is a 14 inch HP Elite folio here's

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the downside if you have an ultra slim like laptop that does not have very many

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ports this is going to take up two of them

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hey it says that back on both sides oh and it worked automatic it's just

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it's already on it was that easy actually um the screen sizes are not correct this

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one's like a little bit off on the sides but that we can fix that real quick by

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adjusting our display settings and then we're gonna adjust oh I should set up

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screen capture now I don't have OBS on this do we

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have OBS on here already oh we're switching again

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get on there little doggy okay so we're just getting the display

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set up the nice thing is that it is like recognized immediately as a display I

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can adjust the brightness using this using the tops of each display and

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that's nice that they have individual brightness because if you're say you're

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sitting in the sun there's a bit of an angle battery life's always a concern

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this is going to start sucking a lot of battery this is probably using like pulling 10 watts like 5 watts each out

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of your battery so that's really gonna have an impact on how long you're gonna

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be able to use your computer so this is kind of the thing that you might want to be using your laptop plugged in for so

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as speaking of charging you can actually use the screens as a pass-through to

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charge your laptop in case you're in the scenario like with the elite folio that

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we had earlier where you only had two USBC ports so you're not totally stuck

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you can still charge with pass-through charging probably at a lowered speed so

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each display is 10.1 inches and Is 1920

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by 1200. their LCD IPS displays they

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have a 60hz refresh rate 180 degree screen rotation

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I mean that sounds about right adjustable brightness we also have other

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settings in the on-screen display color temperature you have HDR on these no

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how yeah their variance and brightness is not huge here's a discipline this is

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disappointing you know I was talking about like quick portability and being able to just kind of lift up and move it

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wherever because of the plug being down here

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it prevents you from being able to slide in the laptop while keeping

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everything plugged in so if I want to like move I have to take this out

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and then this out

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and then and now I can go but like at least it's

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still like okay I'm done I can throw it in a bag but it would have been really nice if

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these could have stayed plugged in so like if we had them on the outside I do

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understand how that would introduce a lot of extra cable length to have to go

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around the other side and that again would be its own set of issues

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um so it's a trade-off that they had to make I'm neither here nor there on it I

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think it's fine I will say the size is

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being 10.1 inches is kind of small

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I know it allows for extra flexibility if I've changed it to HDR and now all

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the colors on this are very wonked my battery is running low I might want

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to plug in my PC see as I said it does consume battery quite quickly

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I was at 20 when I put this on and attached it and now it's gone

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yeah I don't know if I'd call this HDR but it's actually quite a good looking

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display I don't hate it this is like so this is like a lot of this is what I

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wish the clumsy monitor did it takes a lot of the issues I had with that in

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terms of its fit and finish it's usability

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just unplugging this and sliding in this

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this mechanism is not perfect on this side

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um and I wonder how it's going to hold up being all plastic but like this is

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the exact thing I would want this is exactly what I was kind of looking for the price is 500 which sounds like a lot

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but think about it like this you get not one but two ten inch screens and

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you get this convenient form factor plus a ton of cables like they really wanted

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you to cover every single use case they didn't want you to be stuck without a

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way to like a way to use this on your laptop I wonder if this would work with

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some of the bigger 17-inch laptops like let's use this grain real quick hmm

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lttstore.com it's water bottle drink

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it's just she just barely fits

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and it does oh my God oh I do wish that maybe it was bigger

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than 10.1 inches I wish they went to like 12. I know that's not really the

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most common panel size what's limiting a lot of Manufacturers is that

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if you need a display you can't get it in just any size you want 10.1 inches is

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like a common tablet size so that probably made it a lot easier for them to get these displays what is happening

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here whoa wait what the hell

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how come they're both on the same one now these just come off of this rail

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see how there's this this whole exit point

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so when you push it back in I don't know it seems to not be doing it oh it

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happened this one fell out

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it seems like I mean there's other companies that make these there's a

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company called like mobile pixel that I believe makes a similar product the

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really hard part about this is not the displays for me I don't really care that

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much about the quality of the display because this is kind of an office work

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thing it's about the mechanism like this doesn't sit flat

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you know like I use this once and now I can't get it in

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flat okay if I press the bottom of it so if I go like this and I press down here

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then it lays flat I'm disappointed I'm a little sad

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there's already like plastic and stuff rubbing off just from the few times I've

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opened it you can see scrapes along the bottom

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you can get a really high quality portable monitor for like 400 bucks like

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this ASUS Rog strix 15.6 inch monitor

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that's like designed for gaming and also has

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the same kind of thing as a built-in kickstand yeah it doesn't suspend here

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but how many scenarios where you're using this thing

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where you can't use a portable monitor like you don't also have enough table

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surface for portable monitor maybe on like a train or a plane and maybe that's

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a really this is really important to you try to portable monitor first if that

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really doesn't work for you then maybe look into this what do you think is this

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a dream worth chasing is this something that we need to see more of in the

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market and it's just not quite there or is it a little bit of a nightmare

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I can answer that I'll be the judges there what am I looking at

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it's another try oh God this again but this is the one from the company that is

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suing clumsy oh yeah cool so we covered

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it but it's uh kind of clumsy it's a funny joke it's

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kind of clumsy if you like this ShortCircuit tell your friends if you didn't

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like it shut up no one likes a whiner if you would like to watch another video

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why don't you watch uh the one about the Star Wars TV that ploof did it's a Star

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Wars on you TV

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what now I feel bad