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so today I'm going to be having a quick look at a new product from ASUS it's

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kind of like a random product I don't know where this came out of total left

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field here but it's called the assus cross link and I haven't tried it yet so

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I don't know exactly how it works but supposedly this is a way to easily share

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internet and optical drive functionalities between two computers

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you can instantly sync and transfer data between two

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PCS it is USB 2.0 so I'm assuming the transfer rate is going to be 480 megabit

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per second which is USB spe 2.0 speed now here is a quick overview of what

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you're able to do so it is a data link remote share folder link Outlook link

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and Flash share so this is a 2 gig flash

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drive as far as I can tell and then the other piece is a USB A2 mini connector

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so okay they've got system requirements or pretty much anything running XP okay

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so that's that's pretty straightforward and then they show you okay data link

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optical drive share so they show you you you use the cross link functions over

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view blah blah blah you connect two computers with okay let's just open it

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up and have a look at this thing because it's wow that just came right off it's a

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very cryptic product because to me it's always seemed obvious that there should

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be some way to just take a couple computers and just kind of plug them

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together and just transfer data over and it comes with absolutely no user guide

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whatsoever so I guess all we're going to be able to do here is have a quick look

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at the Crosslink product and then I'll have to to post my thoughts on the uh

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annotations in the video so if you watch this before I have a chance to do it

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then I apologize for not having as much detail as I'd like but oh okay so that's

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that's kind of neat so you can kind of you can do this with it and I'm not sure

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what the point of that is but there you can hide the uh the USB connector if you

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want and then you can see that this is just a USB mini connector here plugs in

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there and then that's just a standard cable so as long as you have this piece

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you should be able to transfer data from one computer to another effortlessly

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including sharing Optical drives which is really cool because personally I

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don't really have a reason to have an optical drive in my computer anymore I

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rarely use it so it'd be kind of Handy to be able to just kind of like plug one

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in whenever and use my laptop as an optical drive whenever I need to thank

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you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS cross link