1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:04,400 - Look at this Andy I'm using a touch screen on macOS. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:08,450 Monitors are pretty cool. In my opinion, you know, phones, you got phones, 3 00:00:08,450 --> 00:00:13,050 but they have really small screens. Monitors on the other hand, they got big old screens 4 00:00:13,050 --> 00:00:17,559 big as you want almost, but not all the time thick with two Cs. 5 00:00:17,559 --> 00:00:22,140 (Laughter) But the big problem with monitors, is the fact you can't move them around. 6 00:00:22,140 --> 00:00:28,593 I mean, you can move them around, but they gotta be plugged into the wall. Most monitors, you can't bring everywhere, but guess what? 7 00:00:28,593 --> 00:00:31,660 Guess what, this is? It's a portable monitor. 8 00:00:31,660 --> 00:00:35,649 You can drink it because it's called espresso. 9 00:00:35,649 --> 00:00:39,620 Espresso. (Laughing) This is a portable monitor. 10 00:00:39,620 --> 00:00:42,860 And I mean, as you point, as Jonno pointed out 11 00:00:42,860 --> 00:00:48,860 I do have sort of a thing for portable doohickeys. I liked the next doc a lot and that's technically- 12 00:00:48,860 --> 00:00:52,050 I'll give it to you Jonno. It's technically a portable monitor with a 13 00:00:52,050 --> 00:00:55,520 keyboard and track pad and ports and stuff. 14 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,460 It's the espresso, 15 inch portable monitor, 15 00:00:59,460 --> 00:01:03,650 this almost like doesn't seem like a device. It just seems like a, 16 00:01:03,650 --> 00:01:08,770 like a mock-up or something. So, I picked up the box and I was like, this is heavy, 17 00:01:08,770 --> 00:01:15,670 but i now holding in my hands, I'm like for a monitor or even a tablet, this is quite light for its size. 18 00:01:15,670 --> 00:01:21,300 That's for the laptop, which we have over here, we got a Mac book that we're going to hook things up to 19 00:01:22,721 --> 00:01:25,867 because it works well with Macs? - It has A software for Macs. 20 00:01:25,867 --> 00:01:30,666 - It has software for Macs, but not for Windows? It seems like it's geared towards Mac. 21 00:01:30,666 --> 00:01:33,740 - Yeah. - I mean, it's a monitor, so you should be able to plug it 22 00:01:33,740 --> 00:01:36,870 in to anything that has HDMI. But I mean, well who knows, 23 00:01:36,870 --> 00:01:42,720 I won't say that yet. I got to try it out. If you use a Windows PC, you don't deserve this. 24 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,794 Look at this, this is better than you. 25 00:01:45,794 --> 00:01:49,160 (Laughter) Wow, it's so thin. Okay so we got, 26 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,330 looks like a micro HDMI or mini HDMI some sort 27 00:01:52,330 --> 00:01:56,020 of smaller HDMI port two USB-C connectors. 28 00:01:56,020 --> 00:01:59,570 And then over here we got a headphone Jack looks like 29 00:01:59,570 --> 00:02:04,064 and two buttons of some kind. Speakers on the bottom. 30 00:02:04,064 --> 00:02:09,330 Two speaker grills, just like an iPad, one of those USB-C's is for power, 31 00:02:09,330 --> 00:02:13,490 and the other one is for power and display in I don't know which one is which though 32 00:02:13,490 --> 00:02:17,270 because it is not labeled, but hey, that's the fun of ShortCircuit. 33 00:02:17,270 --> 00:02:21,100 We'll find out. (Laugh) It's a mini, HDMI not a micro HDMI. 34 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:24,310 We got a USB, a to C cords, 35 00:02:24,310 --> 00:02:28,270 I'm guessing that's the power. Windows devices with USB-C ports that 36 00:02:28,270 --> 00:02:33,300 support Thunderbolt three or display board, alternate mode. You want to plug the thing into that, 37 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:36,920 so this is the full size HDMI to mini HDMI. 38 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:41,040 So, we also have these two boxes, a stand I'm guessing this is the stand 39 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:45,850 of some kind? Is that the stand? Wait, before I find it before I actually figure it out, 40 00:02:45,850 --> 00:02:51,863 I'm going to open this one. What is this? This is a vesa mount adapter. 41 00:02:53,210 --> 00:02:57,800 It's magnetic. That goes down, and then you do that. 42 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:03,970 There we go, now we're talking. Okay. So, so it lightly, there's some lights suction here. 43 00:03:03,970 --> 00:03:07,060 Magnetic suction, I think is the scientific term. 44 00:03:07,060 --> 00:03:11,250 Oh, he's suck. It scares me a little bit, 45 00:03:11,250 --> 00:03:15,280 just because the only way that it's mounted on there is with a magnet. It's pretty pretty, huh? 46 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,630 Looks like an iMac. look like very wobbly iMac. (Laugh) 47 00:03:18,630 --> 00:03:24,600 Look at that. Let's turn it on. 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I'm, using a touch screen on macOS. 57 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:06,800 It wouldn't be that hard for Apple to just throw this in, if espresso can figure it out. 58 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:13,030 I mean, this is pretty nice just to, you know it's nice to have that extra screen real estate and macOS, 59 00:04:13,030 --> 00:04:19,523 but it's also nice to basically hack away for you to use your fingers, to control macOS. 60 00:04:19,523 --> 00:04:22,273 (Voice Checking) 61 00:04:23,620 --> 00:04:29,830 Well, those speakers are not good. (Laugh) I mean, especially compared to the Mac book speakers like, 62 00:04:29,830 --> 00:04:33,337 it's nice that it has speakers, if you like really need, you know 63 00:04:33,337 --> 00:04:36,880 if you just need to kind of play something to to hear what the audio sounds like for a, for a hot second, 64 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,320 but it's definitely not something that you are gonna uses as your main. 65 00:04:41,074 --> 00:04:44,393 - That sounds really bad. - Can you hear that? - Yeah. 66 00:04:44,393 --> 00:04:47,393 (Checking Speakers) 67 00:04:48,705 --> 00:04:52,270 - Oooff, big oooff Go back to the other one. 68 00:04:53,544 --> 00:04:55,403 Oh, that's very better. 69 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:59,483 - Stephanie Warmer. - Yeah. 70 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,930 I mean, as it is, it's not horrible, it's just like a little bit warmer than this one. 71 00:05:04,930 --> 00:05:08,600 My main complaint is that it's like, dimmer and this is like the max brightness, 72 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:13,170 it can go. But I mean, when you're looking at it straight on, 73 00:05:13,170 --> 00:05:16,320 it's not so bad. Oh yeah, this is fine. 74 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:23,650 So I guess the idea is that you can power it and use USB-C for both power and display, 75 00:05:23,650 --> 00:05:27,490 if I just do that, it's powered. That's all you need. 76 00:05:27,490 --> 00:05:30,980 Look at that. That's basically, I mean, that's a workstation. 77 00:05:30,980 --> 00:05:35,010 Okay. So now I got power and HDMI separately from my Mac book. 78 00:05:35,010 --> 00:05:39,353 So you could do that if you don't have Thunderbolt on your laptop, let's see if it fits in there. 79 00:05:40,550 --> 00:05:44,090 Bam, don't forget this when you're going to the coffee shop. 80 00:05:44,090 --> 00:05:47,600 Boom, I'm going to the coffee shop to write my next screenplay 81 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,650 while I'm paying for my bills as a barista, 82 00:05:50,650 --> 00:05:54,820 at the that same coffee shop and no one's any wiser, then I'm walking around 83 00:05:54,820 --> 00:05:58,510 with a dual monitor workstation in this fricking backpack. 84 00:05:58,510 --> 00:06:02,540 Like that's amazing. It's not the first portable monitor on the market. 85 00:06:02,540 --> 00:06:09,140 Obviously, you know, as we said ASUS has at least one model, there might be more 86 00:06:09,140 --> 00:06:13,010 there are also options like the next dock which I've already covered on ShortCircuit and 87 00:06:13,010 --> 00:06:17,410 we did an LTT on one of them as well, but that's kind of more like a 88 00:06:17,410 --> 00:06:21,490 like a really specific example of something that you would plug like a phone into 89 00:06:21,490 --> 00:06:26,120 to you use as your computer. But this, you could use this as just a regular monitor too 90 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:32,930 because it does have the separated power and HDMI ports, as well as an integrated Thunderbolt port. 91 00:06:32,930 --> 00:06:37,350 You could use it however you want. And it's so light. Obviously we haven't used it a ton, 92 00:06:37,350 --> 00:06:41,890 so like maybe there's some like secret secret problems that I'm not seeing, 93 00:06:41,890 --> 00:06:45,430 but for now I'm pretty happy with it. 94 00:06:45,430 --> 00:06:48,690 We also hope it gives you a new way to interact with your favorite device, whether that be 95 00:06:48,690 --> 00:06:52,840 through your Mac or Nintendo switch. That's another use that i didn't talk 96 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:58,030 about that I did also talk about with the next doc. This is a great little portable Nintendo switch thing. 97 00:06:58,030 --> 00:07:01,710 So, the 13 inch version is $329 US, 98 00:07:01,710 --> 00:07:04,950 and the 15 inch version is $379 US. 99 00:07:04,950 --> 00:07:12,470 You know that's not bad. Oh, there's also specs here that I didn't say at all at the beginning, 60 Hertz, 99% SRGB, 100 00:07:12,470 --> 00:07:17,950 300 nits max brightness. So like, as I said, you know that's not super bright, but it's bright enough. 101 00:07:17,950 --> 00:07:22,070 Well, I guess at the end of the day, a portable monitor is a little better 102 00:07:22,070 --> 00:07:25,610 than a stationary monitor if you want to go places. 103 00:07:25,610 --> 00:07:29,050 And that's really the only conclusion we can draw here. 104 00:07:29,050 --> 00:07:32,140 This is super light, it's super portable obviously, 105 00:07:32,140 --> 00:07:37,530 it's got this really cool stand. I know the ASUES kind of different stand as well 106 00:07:37,530 --> 00:07:41,420 where it was like a pole and it had three legs that kind of made like a tripod situation. 107 00:07:41,420 --> 00:07:44,650 James reviewed that one I think. I'm a little concerned about, 108 00:07:44,650 --> 00:07:51,820 how the hinges are gonna hold up long term, but overall, I mean it's super easy to mount, boom. 109 00:07:51,820 --> 00:07:57,290 And there you go, you got a portable monitor. 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