so today I'm going to be having a quick look at a new product from ASUS it's
kind of like a random product I don't know where this came out of total left
field here but it's called the assus cross link and I haven't tried it yet so
I don't know exactly how it works but supposedly this is a way to easily share
internet and optical drive functionalities between two computers
you can instantly sync and transfer data between two
PCS it is USB 2.0 so I'm assuming the transfer rate is going to be 480 megabit
per second which is USB spe 2.0 speed now here is a quick overview of what
you're able to do so it is a data link remote share folder link Outlook link
and Flash share so this is a 2 gig flash
drive as far as I can tell and then the other piece is a USB A2 mini connector
so okay they've got system requirements or pretty much anything running XP okay
so that's that's pretty straightforward and then they show you okay data link
optical drive share so they show you you you use the cross link functions over
view blah blah blah you connect two computers with okay let's just open it
up and have a look at this thing because it's wow that just came right off it's a
very cryptic product because to me it's always seemed obvious that there should
be some way to just take a couple computers and just kind of plug them
together and just transfer data over and it comes with absolutely no user guide
whatsoever so I guess all we're going to be able to do here is have a quick look
at the Crosslink product and then I'll have to to post my thoughts on the uh
annotations in the video so if you watch this before I have a chance to do it
then I apologize for not having as much detail as I'd like but oh okay so that's
that's kind of neat so you can kind of you can do this with it and I'm not sure
what the point of that is but there you can hide the uh the USB connector if you
want and then you can see that this is just a USB mini connector here plugs in
there and then that's just a standard cable so as long as you have this piece
you should be able to transfer data from one computer to another effortlessly
including sharing Optical drives which is really cool because personally I
don't really have a reason to have an optical drive in my computer anymore I
rarely use it so it'd be kind of Handy to be able to just kind of like plug one
in whenever and use my laptop as an optical drive whenever I need to thank
you for checking out my unboxing of the ASUS cross link