now this is something that might not be exciting to many general consumers but
for me personally since I often work on the go and I definitely appreciate the
value of multiple monitors I don't know if you guys have ever seen any of the
videos where I'm in my office but in my office I have four monitors so one of
the major disadvantages to me of working on a laptop is not having dual screens
because I can have a mouse I can have an
add-on keyboard but
well excuse me sorry I can have a mouse and add-on keyboard isn't that easy but
I can make myself fairly mobile and fairly comfortable except carding around
a monitor usually isn't really an option so here we have a monitor CD users guid
and installation files although I definitely recommend downloading the latest from Lenovo uh so yeah this is a
Lenovo product I should have mentioned that there's also a bit of
quick start guide type thing going on here so we'll go through that when we
get a little bit more information about the product itself this looks like some
kind of a stand okay so there's a stand
it's got some instructions for how it might work don't forget the USB cable it
says okay we've also got the
aforementioned USB cable so this is a
dual USB a to single USB B and there's a
good reason for that which I'll cover in a moment or uh rather mini mini mini
yeah mini okay and finally we have the monitor itself
so aha there we go so what is this for what
is a what is a monitor in this particular form factor good for you
might ask and I would say that is a very good question let me go ahead and answer
it for you so this is a secondary
display for your notebook that
connects hold on a second now I'm having trouble because I've got so many
accessories going on here that connects via USB it is not only USB powered but
it is also here you can adjust the uh the angle to be even with that stand on
the back to be even with the angle of your notebook but it is also USB a USB
display so you don't need any kind of
external output on your notebook whatsoever in fact if you do want output
to a projector or something like that at a meeting then you can still do that so
that's why it has two USB ports one of them is for power although they aren't
labeled one of them is for power and one of them is for data so I'm going to go ahead and plug this in and plug this in
to the monitor itself so that goes in
right about there okay actually I should
give you guys a closer a closer look at actually give me a sec for convenience
sake I actually did use the disc sorry guys uh basically the quick setup guide
is probably not even quite as simple as the actual process so you power on your
laptop they actually include that as a step you uh put the dis in the thing and
then you plug the USB things into the other USB things and then you adjust the
brightness and that's pretty oh then you can put it away when you're done so I
discovered a couple of other things while I was setting it up and one is
that the case for it so that's the case that you use to store the unit when
you're transporting it to make sure the screen doesn't get damaged also has
little ridges right here which allow you to easily adjust the angle and have it
not accidentally slip out so it's rubber tipped plus there's a Groove there so it
is not going anywhere and I would suggest that it's probably usable even
without the actual uh the actual stand one of the other things that I did was I
found out the resolution of the display so this is a 1366 by whatever that is so
13 66 X 768 widescreen display the
brightness is highly adjustable I apologize Windows is not genuine this is
not true it's genuine Windows well it's sort of true because it's genuine
Windows but it's um I change my Hardware
all the time which is technically not allowed but I'm not going to I mean I
just changed the SSD in here and that's why it deactivated so uh keep changes so
here we go so we're set up it's pretty much that simple I can show you guys the
brightness adjustments obviously something to bear
in mind mind about this display so right about here uh obviously something to
bear in mind about this display is if you're running it off battery power it's going to significantly impact your
battery life because it runs not only the power for the display off USB but
also the data check that out you got a wide range of brightness options uh but
the increase in productivity is probably going to more than make up for it so in
case you guys don't know you can adjust it like this to make sure that your uh
here we go just about like that to make sure that your mouse when you move it
over between the two displays doesn't take that huge leap of faith so how's
the responsiveness of it you can see that frame rate is not as good as it is
over here because instead of using the GPU to accelerate the uh Windows effects
we're using well just the slow data rate
here and uh and a USB Graphics controller so be bear that in mind as
well although for productivity it is awesome because I can throw this here I
can you know go look at something here I can make notes over here I can adjust
this as I see fit in a very convenient
fashion this is a very cool product I'm just going to show you guys how simple
it is to disconnect so you do that your laptop
goes oh that's not connected anymore you fold up this back piece I mean the
tooling is exceptional as we've come to expect from anything made by Lenovo it's
just outstanding like even though it's so thin it's about the thickness well
okay my iPhone comparison is no longer working now that I have this clunky
battery case on it but is about the thickness of an iPhone in the thin Parts
just like that you can see that and uh but this this it has a very solid
overall feel to it in spite of that so I'm going to go ahead and see if I can
figure out how this goes in here there we go just clamps in there like that
protects the front of it simply a cool
little product so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Lenovo think
Vision extra monitor for laptop USB
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