razor project Valerie the portable
triple 4k monitor gaming system they
showed off earlier this year at
CES we all heard the rumors that I stole
it from their Booth during cleanup at the show but I'm going to let you guys
in on a little secret I didn't steal it in fact I
wouldn't even want it because truth be
told I've been working on my own triple
monitor portable battle station laptop
concept for the last 20 minutes that I
call rear prej voer
be and I'm going to show you guys
exactly how it
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link in the video description all right so first things
first and I assure you that my decision
to use a razor blade Pro as the basis of
my prej has nothing to do with the fact
that Razer also did the same thing with their project see mine's a preck there's
is a project no similarity whatsoever is to start
with the Razer Blade Pro as a basis it's
already a fairly portable battle station
class computer with a core i7 6700
K GTX 1080 Graphics 32 gigs of RAM PCIe
raid zero ssds pretty much you oh my
finger is stuck freaking name it I'm not a huge fan of the keyboard but
that's okay okay so what was good about
project Valerie it was self-contained as a single unit so you could just slide it
into your backpack as one piece I mean
sort of they didn't actually have any of that stuff working yet when we were
there the uh the like one that was
supposed to kind of like go out and then fold in that was all fixed in place just
as kind of a of a mockup and the number
two is it was truly portable so the idea
was that sure it was pretty thick but it
could be taken with you uh set up in the local Starbucks and run in either single
monitor mode so without folding out the additional displays or in triple monitor
mode without requiring being plugged
into the wall so my plan is actually to
use a solution that I brought up during my show cut coverage of Razor take on
this by using portable USB powered
monitors I mean sure I may give up some
of the Elegance of not having everything folded together but I have the advantage
of not needing to carry my two extra
monitors out with me when I don't intend to use
them okay we're going to get started on construction in a minute but first let's
have a look at the monitors we're using so these are made by a company called
GIC we've actually covered one of their products before but this is a new one
this is the onlap 1503h and other than being like portable
it's basically a monitor so you got your buttons on the side you've got HDMI and
VGA in unfortunately using proprietary
ports uh but they did send me pretty much all the cables I could possibly
need as well as their dock connector that goes on the back for one of them so
all of that should be pretty straightforward for our project and uh
it's powered right with this USB type-c connector right down here on the bottom
left now normally the idea would be that
you mount it using the uh included metal
stand and rubber magnet thing on the back but of course we have other plans
okay so if everything seemed really well planned out and structured about this
video up until now that's because
I had a plan this is the part where for the
first time I actually attempt to uh to
do this so here we go in order to keep the
io on the side of the monitor out of the
way of my mounting strategy which I have
not yet determined what it will actually be so these are like they're pretty
light but they definitely do have some
he to them I'm thinking maybe I could take off this metal bracket see if I can
save a little bit of weight there on one of them I'm going to be using their dock
connector so the one that mounts on the right side of the monitor it's kind of
unfortunate how freaking long the cables
are on this so you can see right there
we don't need to have any cables sticking out of it so we can go like
that and like like
like that okay then on the other one I
can use the cables that were included in the Box because they only sent me one of
those dock
adapters okay so cables included in the
Box here we go so we plug in the proprietary HDMI I and our power
in with the objective
then of running that puppy right there
yeah boy
okay so what I can't do with the bracket
here is have these monitors sit in front
of the laptop so it looks like these are going to have to go on from the back and
because of the length of these cables I think I'm actually going to be better
off having the uh dock adapter one on
this side and then the other one see
with the cables coming off here on the other side and wrapping them
around sort of maybe
oh no problem no problem we got this so all I need to
figure out now is what type of mounting strategy I
want to use we got Tuck tape we got Gaff
tape which I'm already pretty sure isn't going to work we've got double-sided
velcro tape and we've got this badass 3M
Adhesive that we use for our GoPros now this and tuct tape have the disadvantage
of not being very uh removable how you
say so I'm going to try and make this
work with this Velcro stuff let's see
how it
goes now obviously given that these monitors actually
have mounting points on them like screw
mounting points points if Jake was here I could have him whip up something on
the 3D printer or something but it's me
so double-sided tape Fraser's going to be super stoked
on getting this laptop back with like velcro all over it this stuff leaves a
wicked residue
okay so it's actually kind of moment of
Truth time here what kind of angle do we
want let's go with that give me some
guidance here man okay actually here you know what let's just
there line it like
that oh boy okay here we
go oh yeah boy yeah so theoretically you
need two USB plugs for power for this sucker
but I have had them working with just
one so let's see
if wait for it yeah all right we got
one one monitor working now it's time to apply what we
learned which is nothing of course
to the other
side
okay
boom yeah think it's going to
survive do you even lift rer Blade
Pro yeah boy yeah you do now we just got
to plug this one in and do note that
there is still a USB port available on
the left side for your uh USB plug-in
needs you know your mouse your uh thumb drive and the second HDMI output
provided by the Thunderbolt Port
because what project wouldn't be complete without a dongle in today's
world so the Thunderbolt Port gives us our second
HDMI
and come
on where's my cursor the computer just
crash
oh yeah there it is look at that working
perfectly DIY project Valerie the cursor moves
seamlessly from one to the next and we
have achieved the goals that we set out
to achieve so goal number one triple
monitors on a laptop and goal number two the ability
to albe it with some additional bulk
take our completely cableless solution no need to
be plugged into the
wall and
easily
easily easily
oh did that panel just break this one's
fine easily take it with us
on the go in one
compact package so thanks for watching guys I
hope you enjoyed this fun little video on DIY project Valerie now
obviously I fully understand that this
is not a very elegant solution but the point of this video much the same way
that razer's video was more about the
concept of triple monitor laptops the point of this video was the concept of
portable multim monitor Solutions and where they could go in the future what
I'd like to see is especially with USB
type-c and its incredible power delivery characteristics I'd like to see a beefy
Thunderbolt Port that could power two of these monitors that are kind of Daisy
together across the back off of a single port or something like that that would
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