monitors they're pretty boring but this one is not because it's got a
special button that most other monitors don't have and it's also got a pop-up
doohickey that we're gonna find out more about but i'm not gonna ruin it right now that's a spoiler i
hate spoilers mandalorian was spoiled for me
all right now the cool thing about this monitor is that
it's got a teams button microsoft teams
have you ever heard of it it's like skype and it's got a pop-up
camera with Windows hello so i did spoil
it after all i'm sorry i need something to open the box though with and we're not allowed to use knives
i like that there's a knife right here
oh oh okay so it's there but you're not allowed to use it
what do we use these paper clips for come on there it is
okay down we go
it's a 34 inch ultra wide is that right jono
it is curved uh for better or for worse with a 3800 r
curvature uh which is i guess is pretty typical nowadays
um i wouldn't get a curved ultra wide monitor just so you know
we got in the box we got a usbc
cable a usb 3.0 or 3.1
gen 1 i think 3.2 gen 1.
they're also annoying they're also confusing now features a DisplayPort
cable i think that's 1.2
and a power cable okay
wow there's so many components there's so many compartments
what should i start with andy this is oh okay there we go that's the base don't
drop the base because i'm not Linus this is the monitor ARM stand thing
what do you call this that thing
okay here's the monitor it
itself take the monitor out and then
put put that thing on it i thought you just had to hold it
i thought you just had to go at your desk and just be like ah
that's nice large deep dish ultrawide monitor
okay get in there
oh that's always so satisfying and to
the base we are now adding extra like work
features into monitors which i've been like why haven't they done that earlier
like give me something extra
which dell has apparently done oh look at that fabric
this is a speaker dual
5 watt speakers i did um i knew that
there were speakers but i didn't know that there was going to be this nice old fabric on it
how am i going to stop myself from just doing this all day when i'm using it
i don't do that oh i do that's right yeah show the tweet show the tweet
i'm gonna hook this up so we can
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Linus now back to the show the show of
me hooking up a pc to this monitor so
the what oh i'll do that jono
you're right i'll do what you say we'll take a bit more of a look at the
physical oh okay so this is one of the so we're
starting right off with a limitation the smaller models are able to do this
more i believe the other ones can go all the way
because it's you know who's gonna who's gonna
pivot a 34-inch monitor vertically okay
let's look at the i o i think i'm gonna have to tilt it back like this andy can you get in there
i should have i should have just done this when i before i attached it
okay so we obviously got the power connector we got an HDMI
2.0 port i believe we got displayport 1.2 now this is a usb
3.2 gen1 port that supports up to 5 gigabits per second
it's also got an rj45 Ethernet um and
then on the bottom you kind of have like a more easily accessible usb a
connector as well as a 3.5 mil jack and
a another USB-C port it's also got
this handy little teams button on the front that's not something you see every
day and in fact it's the main attraction of
this monitor get a close-up on that andy right there got these other buttons boom
boom boom boom boom buttons all right let's put it back
on on the back we have the power button and a joystick always love to see a joystick
for monitor settings and what's this tape up here that's for
the webcam it's got Windows hello built in let's
check it out all right plug in my laptop here power
activate
is just gonna is it gonna figure it out without me doing anything
use the joystick and what do what with
it down english select yes to enable the
following functions always on usb charging uh yes there it is hold on hold on hold
on i want to see something when i close the lid do nothing now what
happens
it's smart
does it touch is this a touch screen
no it's not um
duplicate extend this isn't just a monitor that you're plugging in so right
now we're only using the display portion of the usbc connection but
we're also asking it to use a webcam
and mics and to send sound
and as a usb hub let's open the camera
so right now it's using the laptop's webcam
yeah does it need like a driver or something let's find out let's take this
thing off yeah ready for appeal i set you free webcam
can you see that what do you see nothing
it's camouflaged this monitor is a transformer
webcams in disguise sorry i'll stop all
right i haven't pushed it yet do you think i should
push it
hey there it looks like you're using a team certified device
did you know tapping the teams button opens teams that's what i just did
let's bring that over here call me on teams
oh is it working
no that's my that's my that's my laptop webcam i'm unmuting but it's
muting me again right away all right let's cancel this cancelled
no i'm going to plug in the pc instead because
um i want to see whether like how how smart it is at just setting up by itself
without me doing extra work i got a computer down here can you see that andy okay so i'm plugging that into
the usbc port and then i'm grabbing the display
port
does this have teams wait i won't search for it i'll just press the button
press the button i almost half expected it to like when you press the teams
button for it to like go online and download it teams hello
okay now can you hear me check check check
what the heck this is probably a huge waste of time yep
because i need to download drivers or something all right cancel again
sorry get out of my face jono
maybe the reason why it hasn't been working is because there's this little red doohickey on the top
uh where the webcam is and i'm supposed to pull that out and maybe once i pull
that out it'll magically work let's find out yeah i don't no i don't
think you're supposed to pull it i think that's just like the the lens cover that but what i think you
are supposed to do is push oh there it is and webcam and mic
enabled i'm gonna peel this off all right call
me jono
yeah it's supposed to be 1080p 30fps
this shot would be better if we could see what it looks like on your laptop
go over there andy yeah it looks pretty good
and i can get right up in the face for the real for the real business
conference vibes listen if you don't have those reports
in by friday yeah you guys see that is that
brightness so like it would be good if i was like a makeup youtuber and i had to like show a
product it's like this week i'm wearing chanel
let's switch back to the laptop okay he's calling me
press the team's call button
oh and there's no camera i can hear you though and you're coming through the
monitor but my camera's off probably just because i there we go nice all right you redeemed
yourself monitor i was kind of scared for a second
oh my gosh sneak peek is that a short is that the ShortCircuit set i didn't even
know what that was i was like oh is that the podcast set
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okay so that is uh that's a little it's redeemed itself i was just confused
Linus look it's got a web have you ever
seen that before it's a webcam with a with a built-in or
it's a monitor with a built-in webcam look at this nope nope
well you don't like it too far what are you talking about no
it's great oh it's like it's just like a laptop without a without a mouse kit
why minus
what does he know
the viewing angles are pretty good supposed to be 178 degrees so like
almost 180 and like yeah you're probably not gonna
be doing a ton of gaming on this thing okay guys it is 60 hertz
so whatever it's got kvm in it so
i'm plugged in with usbc on my laptop displayport again
and i'm going to plug in with the usb a
to usb b
is it doing it cool so there we go that
was pretty easy what they say is that it has a built-in kvm which means you should be able to
use one mouse and keyboard with both machines
usb switch upstream usb-c
yeah okay that's super easy
so i still have my laptop plugged in and i can control the mouse on the laptop
but i can also control the mouse with this one which is plugged in through the usb
the monitor yeah and that's i think is the really cool
thing about this monitor is that it integrates a bunch of other stuff that
you would need to like go and connect to your pc in a discrete fashion
like separate uh it's just all there i'm a bit confused as to why
microsoft has a monitor with teams integration built in when they have this
like special deal with samsung where like samsung and microsoft are
buddy buddy i figured this would be a samsung monitor instead but it's a dell
you know dell's getting in on the microsoft action too microsoft doesn't
discriminate
i don't know i'm scared i don't think this is going to be very good guys
for a business focused monitor
that's pretty good well that was a monitor
and this was a video and you are a viewer
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