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razor project Valerie the portable

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triple 4k monitor gaming system they

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showed off earlier this year at

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CES we all heard the rumors that I stole

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it from their Booth during cleanup at the show but I'm going to let you guys

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in on a little secret I didn't steal it in fact I

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wouldn't even want it because truth be

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told I've been working on my own triple

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monitor portable battle station laptop

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concept for the last 20 minutes that I

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call rear prej voer

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be and I'm going to show you guys

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exactly how it

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works hp's new omen lineup comes

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equipped with Intel's 7th generation core i7 processor check it out at the

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link in the video description all right so first things

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first and I assure you that my decision

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to use a razor blade Pro as the basis of

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my prej has nothing to do with the fact

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that Razer also did the same thing with their project see mine's a preck there's

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is a project no similarity whatsoever is to start

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with the Razer Blade Pro as a basis it's

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already a fairly portable battle station

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class computer with a core i7 6700

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K GTX 1080 Graphics 32 gigs of RAM PCIe

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raid zero ssds pretty much you oh my

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finger is stuck freaking name it I'm not a huge fan of the keyboard but

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that's okay okay so what was good about

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project Valerie it was self-contained as a single unit so you could just slide it

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into your backpack as one piece I mean

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sort of they didn't actually have any of that stuff working yet when we were

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there the uh the like one that was

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supposed to kind of like go out and then fold in that was all fixed in place just

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as kind of a of a mockup and the number

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two is it was truly portable so the idea

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was that sure it was pretty thick but it

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could be taken with you uh set up in the local Starbucks and run in either single

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monitor mode so without folding out the additional displays or in triple monitor

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mode without requiring being plugged

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into the wall so my plan is actually to

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use a solution that I brought up during my show cut coverage of Razor take on

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this by using portable USB powered

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monitors I mean sure I may give up some

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of the Elegance of not having everything folded together but I have the advantage

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of not needing to carry my two extra

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monitors out with me when I don't intend to use

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them okay we're going to get started on construction in a minute but first let's

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have a look at the monitors we're using so these are made by a company called

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GIC we've actually covered one of their products before but this is a new one

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this is the onlap 1503h and other than being like portable

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it's basically a monitor so you got your buttons on the side you've got HDMI and

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VGA in unfortunately using proprietary

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ports uh but they did send me pretty much all the cables I could possibly

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need as well as their dock connector that goes on the back for one of them so

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all of that should be pretty straightforward for our project and uh

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it's powered right with this USB type-c connector right down here on the bottom

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left now normally the idea would be that

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you mount it using the uh included metal

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stand and rubber magnet thing on the back but of course we have other plans

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okay so if everything seemed really well planned out and structured about this

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video up until now that's because

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I had a plan this is the part where for the

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first time I actually attempt to uh to

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do this so here we go in order to keep the

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io on the side of the monitor out of the

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way of my mounting strategy which I have

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not yet determined what it will actually be so these are like they're pretty

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light but they definitely do have some

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he to them I'm thinking maybe I could take off this metal bracket see if I can

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save a little bit of weight there on one of them I'm going to be using their dock

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connector so the one that mounts on the right side of the monitor it's kind of

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unfortunate how freaking long the cables

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are on this so you can see right there

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we don't need to have any cables sticking out of it so we can go like

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that and like like

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like that okay then on the other one I

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can use the cables that were included in the Box because they only sent me one of

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those dock

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adapters okay so cables included in the

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Box here we go so we plug in the proprietary HDMI I and our power

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in with the objective

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then of running that puppy right there

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yeah boy

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okay so what I can't do with the bracket

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here is have these monitors sit in front

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of the laptop so it looks like these are going to have to go on from the back and

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because of the length of these cables I think I'm actually going to be better

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off having the uh dock adapter one on

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this side and then the other one see

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with the cables coming off here on the other side and wrapping them

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around sort of maybe

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oh no problem no problem we got this so all I need to

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figure out now is what type of mounting strategy I

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want to use we got Tuck tape we got Gaff

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tape which I'm already pretty sure isn't going to work we've got double-sided

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velcro tape and we've got this badass 3M

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Adhesive that we use for our GoPros now this and tuct tape have the disadvantage

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of not being very uh removable how you

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say so I'm going to try and make this

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work with this Velcro stuff let's see

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how it

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goes now obviously given that these monitors actually

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have mounting points on them like screw

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mounting points points if Jake was here I could have him whip up something on

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the 3D printer or something but it's me

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so double-sided tape Fraser's going to be super stoked

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on getting this laptop back with like velcro all over it this stuff leaves a

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wicked residue

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okay so it's actually kind of moment of

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Truth time here what kind of angle do we

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want let's go with that give me some

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guidance here man okay actually here you know what let's just

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there line it like

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that oh boy okay here we

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go oh yeah boy yeah so theoretically you

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need two USB plugs for power for this sucker

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but I have had them working with just

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one so let's see

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if wait for it yeah all right we got

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one one monitor working now it's time to apply what we

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learned which is nothing of course

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to the other

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side

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okay

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boom yeah think it's going to

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survive do you even lift rer Blade

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Pro yeah boy yeah you do now we just got

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to plug this one in and do note that

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there is still a USB port available on

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the left side for your uh USB plug-in

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needs you know your mouse your uh thumb drive and the second HDMI output

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provided by the Thunderbolt Port

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because what project wouldn't be complete without a dongle in today's

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world so the Thunderbolt Port gives us our second

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HDMI

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and come

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on where's my cursor the computer just

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crash

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oh yeah there it is look at that working

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perfectly DIY project Valerie the cursor moves

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seamlessly from one to the next and we

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have achieved the goals that we set out

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to achieve so goal number one triple

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monitors on a laptop and goal number two the ability

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to albe it with some additional bulk

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take our completely cableless solution no need to

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be plugged into the

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wall and

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easily

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easily easily

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oh did that panel just break this one's

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fine easily take it with us

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on the go in one

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compact package so thanks for watching guys I

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hope you enjoyed this fun little video on DIY project Valerie now

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obviously I fully understand that this

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is not a very elegant solution but the point of this video much the same way

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that razer's video was more about the

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concept of triple monitor laptops the point of this video was the concept of

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portable multim monitor Solutions and where they could go in the future what

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I'd like to see is especially with USB

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type-c and its incredible power delivery characteristics I'd like to see a beefy

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Thunderbolt Port that could power two of these monitors that are kind of Daisy

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together across the back off of a single port or something like that that would

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