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There are only two things I love in this world, displays and keyboards. So, when

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we saw the Kickstarter for uh the portable keyboard monitor, we had to get

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it. It seems like the obvious decision. It's got 10 years of craftsmanship. It's

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a classic release. I don't know if it's

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classic, but you know what you can do on it? Work, entertainment, and gaming. All

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of it. all of it in this one package. That only cost us, I think, around $250,

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which seems reasonable. However, if you're buying this now,

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it's a lot more than that. I'll get to the price later, but it's it's a lot

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more. Um, I like the packaging so far, although they're using this uh foam that

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I'm not crazy about. This is slim.

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Okay. Is there anything else in here? We've got our user manual. And the nice

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thing is, if you're on Mac, you don't require a driver. If you're on desktop,

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uh, you have to get the display link driver. We also got

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a nice USBC cable. USBC to A. They've

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also included a USBC to C cable. No idea

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what the rating is on it cuz it's not printed on here. You want a good USB

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cable? LTOre.com. We got true spec cables. They're very nice. You guys

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bought them all, so I don't have any. I'm upset. That's okay. I'll get some

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later. Let's take this thing out of the packaging. I still have yet to see it.

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It's pretty hefty, but it also is very slim.

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AND OH, like all good things in life, it folds.

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Wow, that's actually pretty sick. Is there a little screen protector on here

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that I can peel off? Yes, there is.

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>> I'm kind of amazed that it just like unfolds. This basically is a laptop.

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Like honestly, if this thing if you could fit a power brick, like if you

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could put a battery maybe in this top half here or like maybe extend it just a

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little bit, it's going to be a pretty sweet little laptop. I don't understand why more people don't do this. All

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right, let's weigh this bad boy.

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2.5 lb. Honestly, yeah, it's about right.

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There's a couple of feet on the back here

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there. you know, since it doesn't have some in the front, it's probably going

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to move around on you a little bit. Um, the hinge is actually

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pretty good. And it goes flat. Okay. Hell yeah. Or pretty close to flat.

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Yeah, I do worry that without those extra feet, it could might move around a

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little bit. I would like some uh just on the front here as well. Um or maybe do a

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full bar across the back instead of just these two little guys here. Uh, as for

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screws though, you know, they're all visible, but they're all sunk nice and deep, so they're not going to jut out

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anywhere. It seems very uh put together. There's no major cracks or anything

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else.

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Imagine if your phone was this big. Hell

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yeah. [laughter] >> Try sitting down.

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>> That hurts. Hold on. Hold on.

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Hello. One thing that I'm kind of concerned about is we've got two USB

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ports here. One looks like power and one

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is USB 3.0, I'm guessing, for data, for

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the screen or something maybe. I'm not sure. I kind of wish the screen was like

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its own separate entity that you could then fully detach and put it somewhere

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else and you just get the two of them as a package and you can attach it on the hinge if you want to. Um, but I don't

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think that's the case. Uh, so far just from handling it a bit,

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my fingerprints are not really being left here, which is great. I got some

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greasy mits and they're Yeah, they're really not doing anything. Like, this looks pretty clean still, no matter what

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way you shine the light on. It's not perfect. It is smudging up, but like that's a worst case scenario with the

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light on it like that. I'm looking at the top down right now and yeah, look, that looks okay. Back also looks great.

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I think it would look cooler personally if it was all just like, you know, two

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pieces and that's it. But right now, it looks like kind of three pieces. Uh, one

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thing I also like is that it's got some nice little feet here on the bottom to

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make sure that you're not going to crush your screen into anything. The switches

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are just pretty typical scissor switches.

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It feels okay, honestly. I like little chicklet style keyboards. This thing is

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a little small though, I will say. Like, we'll do the typing test in a bit, but

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um I've got a feeling I'm going to make a bunch of mistakes cuz yeah, it does

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feel a little cramped. So going from

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here to here is 1 2 3 4 5 cm. And then if

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[music] we check our Logitech keyboard, 1 2 3 4 5 6 and a

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bit. So an extra centimeter and a bit. So call me crazy, but it is a little

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smaller and so that might be a bit more cramped for your fingies as you're

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trying to type hastily. Uh, but we'll settle that with the typing test once we

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or click our link below. Okay, so that's power. Don't want that. USB3 into

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computer. It detected it like right away. Okay, so it detects that there's a

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screen and it gave me power. Yo. Uh

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yeah, it's a 1920x 720p display. We

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[music] got that 8x3 aspect ratio. Let's

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do the old crab rave. I don't think it has any speakers on it. I just want to

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like see a YouTube video that I know and love. They say that this is a prograde

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screen with crisp clarity. And uh

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honestly, it is like 160 PPI, so you

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know, it could be higher, but that's more than most displays people are

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looking at, even at 4K. So yeah, this is like honestly pretty sick. They're

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advertising 72% of NTSC coverage, which

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isn't really a thing over here anymore. It's kind of about 100% sRGB, but like

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not really because color spaces, you know, they don't really always fit

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perfectly into each other. Um, but it's similar to that. It's close enough. So,

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yeah, overall it actually looks pretty good. It's also a 10finger touch screen,

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so yeah, it is sick. Okay, I can pause. Wait, can I pause? Pause. My controls

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down here are like super cut off, so using it for YouTube is actually kind of

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tough. Like, I don't I can't hit the pause button no matter how hard I may

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try. There's no brightness claim on their website, but like honestly, this

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is getting bright enough for me to use as a second screen. But let's get to

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what you guys really crave. We're going to do the typing test, and I'm going to do it on this screen. Okay, gamers. Now,

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you can see and I can see. Uh, time to

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try this thing. I am terrified it's going to be really bad because even like

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even the spacing between my hands, like between where F and J go, I feel like

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there should be a whole extra key there. This [music] F and K feels like a lot more

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comfortable for home rope for me. So, I don't expect this to go very well, but

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here we go.

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Nope. AH, NO. I SCREWED THE WHOLE THING. H

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backspace is like this tiny little button over here, and it's

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69 words per minute, 87%. I want to try it one more time.

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Okay, 10590. That's fine. I'm not going to do a third time. I like condensed

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layouts a little bit. Like KBD19X is one

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of my favorite keyboards of all time. And um I hate really tiny back spaces.

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It's one thing I just I know muscle memory will probably fix that over time,

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but I just I struggle with it so much. I'm trying to press over here and then I

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press there and it's not good in terms of type feel and how it, you know, just

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[music] sounds and feels to type on. It's fine.

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It's like a It's basically like a little chicklet keyboard um with scissor

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switches and like I don't hate it. But as a full package, it just seems like

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like why, you know? I if you're getting

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this, why not just get a laptop at that point? Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe this isn't

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for this, you know, maybe this is like your main keyboard [music] and then this

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is hooked up to a desktop and then you've got like this little screen here and then you've got a big monitor here.

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That's kind of cool and I could see that as like a really interesting [music] use

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case. And then hey, you want to pack this up and take it somewhere. Well,

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it's easy. You close it, you unplug it, and you take it away. Um, but little

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screens about this aspect ratio and size already exist. And you know, they're

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already they're on their own, too. they're not stuck on this hinge and you can take them off and put them wherever

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you want. So, if you want to do that setup, why don't you just buy a

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keyboard, buy one of those little screens and then have your monitor and

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everything like, I don't know. You know what? Maybe I'm an idiot and maybe that's just not the right use case and

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maybe it's really for like gamers. All right, we've got our Xbox Ally X. Uh,

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they did show someone doing something like this in their promotional material

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on the Kickstarter web page. Yo, it actually worked just fine. didn't have

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to install that display driver at all. It's almost the same size.

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[laughter] Like, yeah, it's bigger for sure. For

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sure it's bigger, but like it's not it's not that much bigger. I don't know. I

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don't know if I'd bother with this system either. I guess it makes things a

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little easier. Like I can, you know, hit here and then I can search for like uh

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Final Fantasy and, you know, that's easier than if I tried to like touch

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type away at some stupid uh set of letters. So, that's kind of nice. But, I

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mean, I don't know. Do I like I could just plug a keyboard into this thing. I

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don't need a whole second screen to do that. If you don't have either of these

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plugged into a separate power source now, you're going to drain your battery

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on your handheld even faster because you're hooked up to a keyboard and a

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screen, and both of those are going to suck back some juice. So, um I don't

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know, guys. We call this series kick farted for a reason. It's so cool in

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theory, and like it's not even a bad product, honestly. Like, the screen

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looks decent enough. The keyboard felt okay to type on. Um the construction is

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like pretty solid. Honestly, it feels good. And um I I don't think they've

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made any mistakes. I just [music] I don't understand who it's for. You know,

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it's like one of those things where like people get in their mind like, "Oh, I want this use case. Like I have this use

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case for this thing and I want a product. Other people must have that as

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well. I'm going to build this product." Okay. I'm not using it. I am just

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playing Hades on it to, you know, give you guys a good view here.

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Yeah. Yeah, you really see the reflections. There is like zero anti-lare.

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So, okay, one advantage, you know, [music] say you've got a handheld um

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that plays a lot better with keyboard and mouse. You could plug a keyboard and

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mouse into this thing and then boom, you've got your own little like [music]

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laptop except it's powered by a handheld now. But then just get a keyboard and

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mouse for your handheld and then like, okay, sure, the angle's a little off,

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but do you need to pay the money to get like an extra? I don't know, guys. I

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don't know. There's, you know, I love novelty. I really do. Like, there's a

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lot of keyboards that I probably shouldn't have liked as much as I did,

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but they did something refreshing or they did something interesting to me or

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they looked really cool or they used a neat material or whatever.

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I just don't understand who this is for. And maybe it's just because it's not for

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me. I guess my real problem with it is, you know, we paid about $270, which I

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guess is reasonable for like a portable keyboard with a screen attached. Um, but

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the problem is if you don't get it on Kickstarter, it's going to retail for

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more like $535, which at that point I just no, I don't

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think you should do this. I think you should buy a portable monitor and a portable keyboard unless you're really

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looking for like the all-in-one device. Uh, but I just I don't know. I don't

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know if it's for me. [music] 6 and how many? 693 backers uh raised a

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lot of money for this thing and I really hope that everyone who gets it likes it

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cuz I'll say it's a quality little device. It's just confusing and it's not

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for me. But you know what? I'm poof and this is just ShortCircuit. And if you

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want to watch other short circuits, um maybe look at the one where I checked

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out uh not the Flux but a different keyboard that had a screen built in.

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That was also a very questionable uh

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purchase and experience.

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Goodbye. This is me typing on the Keo.

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Wow. Keo, more like Higgo. See you

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later.