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today's video was actually inspired by one of our forum members because people

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like to watch stuff get thrown at you so thanks stab your face for recommending

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that we do the amazon basics thing again with monoprice stuff stab your face

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that's the username well no it's only two words it's stab your face

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got it and what is this look at that spoilers you'll find out soon enough

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so the premise is pretty simple yet again we basically

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went on a monoprice shopping spree

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not because they paid us or we even particularly like those guys to be

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perfectly frank with you i don't slide it too much

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whoa whoa it doesn't have doesn't have any feet on the bottom so this thing

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will screw up your desk wow and potentially your day

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jeez you you know you've as you get that

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so obviously this is a dual monitor stand yeah

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if you somehow want to put your dual monitors vertically

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okay so what are the specs of this puppy this is a 2560 by 1440p 144 hertz

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freesync mode 44 hertz yes not bad it also has some kind of quantum

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dots okay and i tested the colors and they're actually pretty good over 99

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coverage of srgb okay and how much do we pay for one of these 400 bucks

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so this was the 36 dollar mechanical feel keyboard yeah which didn't impress

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us much city so it's a 10 keyless

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and it uses otemu brown switches

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how much do i pay for the privilege of a temu browns two dollars more than that

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one 38 dollars total and even though this one has the double shot injected

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keys that light can shine through yeah it's there's no backlight it's not RGB

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and this amazon one is RGB do you hear that backspace when i hit it the key

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stabilization is so bad hold on

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i'd take this i'd give up my number pad i'd give up my

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back lighting i'd give up my macro keys but then i type more than i game

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and when it comes to just wasding around back when i used to game a lot

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honestly i used membrane keyboard anyway so yeah but now you have taste

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wow it doesn't have a forward button please

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tell me this is programmable i saw a lot of reviews saying it's not you know what

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this thing sucks and i hate it one thing it has

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is weight you can change the weight although it says push it actually means

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pull or push on this this is actually a

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cylinder stack of little weight tuning discs

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holy crap brand and check this out

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so my gut feeling on the uh

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the pixel response time motion blur

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look at the trails behind the banner on the LTT website as i move it around that

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is disgusting wow

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see that i thought it was like an important

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parallax effect of the website no

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that is horrendous i've never seen that in my life

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so that's what happens when you take

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a panel that doesn't have adequate pixel response times for the refresh rate

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you're running and just overclock the snot out of the refresh rate the worst

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part we aren't even at 144 hertz yet but

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this is one of those examples of monitor specs being misleading it's like yeah

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144 it's get your gaming gaming

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this is not going to be an amazing gaming experience what keep hitting me

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oh right so their bread and butter is cables yeah so here we have we own so

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many modern price tables this is a monoprice displayport cable

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them way too much money this is an amazon basics displayport

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cable

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the monoprice one better be cheaper because this is a really old housing

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style with the uh the button lock

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this is the one that we had already we didn't just buy this we didn't just oh

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this could be older oh remember how on the amazon video you're

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like why did you buy this we have a million of these

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yes well now i see how it was not

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necessarily better to do it the other way thank you james for

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illuminating that for me so there's two types this is the ultra

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slim one that's four feet for ten dollars

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and this one is the premium one which is six feet

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for 650. premium is

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cheaper than ultraslim right that's probably just because yeah

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this is cheaper to manufacture or you can get a nice braided one from

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amazon basics six feet for eight dollars

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i like the slim one really lightweight and it actually makes

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no difference for a digital signal to have a premium cable that's thicker or

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braided or whatever else having this nice lightweight wire much easier to

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manage super flexible too i like this one monoprice is actually fairly well

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known for their headphones headsets at least

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that's my understanding so these are their 90 dollar active noise cancelling

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gaming headphones interesting

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let's have the unboxing experience here my friends you can put your uh name tag

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in here put like a business card in there so someone could wait what

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is there actually a spot to put it oh yeah there we go it goes in from this

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side okay oh but you can take it out if you want

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so if nothing else you've got a hook and loop business card

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holder even if the headphones are complete garbage and you hate them so

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you've got these in-line controls and i like that it's got that soft touch

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finish yeah they would have done well to put the same finish on the mouse these

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buttons are very rudimentary buttons these are these are cheap buttons

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so they're usb to power the active noise cancelling but audio is actually handled

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via analog is that correct that's what it looks like oh that's an unfortunate

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position for the inline control this thing is heavy

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whoa these are clampy yes no length

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adjustment on the microphone you know what i actually kind of like the bit of

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resistance to the articulation of the ear cups though because it means that

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they're not constantly like fighting you and that active noise cancelling is

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basically just like someone going

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in your ear you're trading hvac for a hiss

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well if you don't like the 90 premium ones you'll love the 30 or i

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should say 28 worse ones oh wow these are

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these barely even have padding in the top they're probably better than what i

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was using for 28 bucks back when i was like first getting into gaming

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but this is one of those things where i'd really recommend saving up or

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waiting for a black friday promotion or something in

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our cheap gaming headset roundup there were

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other sets for 25 dollars that were better they're done they're done i'm

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giving these a recommendation over these

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because for ninety dollars you can get some pretty good stuff

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whereas for like 30 bucks yeah you can certainly get stuff that's a lot better

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than this but like

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yeah i don't recommend either

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none of what i just did is should be construed as an endorsement

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this is the monoprice desk cover modesty panel with wire

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management you know your desk you're very privileged there's a wall there but some

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people might have you know other colleagues desk cover

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modesty panel so you can man spread without your privates exposed on kilt

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day so what the idea is you hang this off

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the back of your desk with these clips you actually screw this onto your desk

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and then you just take your excess cable and just like

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put it in your pocket here well i think you run it this way

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and there's these little velcros that you could

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tie it in there with see that

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28 bucks 28 bucks

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yeah if it was me i'd probably just get a tablecloth or like

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would you believe it has no reviews on amazon yeah i would personally i think it's

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great if you're the type to uh stick your boogers to the bottom side of your

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desk david ratcliffe how else can monoprice

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improve my gaming experience today gaming i don't know but they have

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other verticals that they specialize in like smart home stuff with their stitch

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line oh interesting what appears to be nintendo switch joy-cons so this is a

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door window sensor when it gets opened it'll make an audible beep

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but apparently it's not that loud but in addition you'll also get a notification

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your phone no matter where you are in the world because it's wi-fi not just

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bluetooth so really today's theme is not home security though in home automation

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it's like your desk set up right so the way that i see it you got something

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really you know valuable in this drawer here or something wait let's put

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something valuable in that drawer yeah so if i were to

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come in here and steal yours hey

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oh there it is

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hey let's see if i can get a tamper alarm pull off the big one sure

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hey you tampering with my stuff

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oh you are tampering

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nice that's not a bad delay either bad boy i probably should have given you this

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earlier this is the monoprice 5 port 10 100

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1000 megabit per second unmanaged gigabit Ethernet switch for 18

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that's not even a great price actually hey man it's got five ports even though

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the product page says eight um

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and this has the fakest review ever it says

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works great i love all monoprice products i buy and

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they stand behind the quality look i'm not saying i'm too good to wear a

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headlamp i'm definitely not too good to wear a headlamp i'm just saying you got

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to have the top one because these straps wear out and that's what will actually

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hold it in place now with that said this seems pretty alright yeah so you

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can get a tp-link switch with a metal housing for 14.99 with prime this thing

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is done it's done it's not it's out it's

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out it's done you don't blow you just hum

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no other way other way

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why the hell do they have this because they sell music stuff

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i know you're gonna do i should

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i should have just bought the 150 guitar

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well i'll be keeping that in my high security drawer unless anyone tried to

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steal it from me that's a bargain to eight dollars and 26 cents although keep

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in mind 22 percent of people gave it a one star

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for not working at all so for 65

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i got us you know james i think you're really stretching

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the definition of desk accessories here what are you

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talking about this is diy phone case

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dude i'm making a screen protector right now shut up i figured we're not we're

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going to vacuum seal your phone all right where's the vacuum sealed vacuum sleeve

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oh yeah baby isn't this the vacuumer

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this is an accessory hose

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seems pretty sealed i think you just hit the release buttons now

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can you use it oh yeah sure oh hell yeah

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hold on let's see if my fingerprint sensor works

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no hold on no maybe if i

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okay nope no fingerprint sensor let's try the

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iris scan come on baby can you work through that

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come on work with me here

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no match can you please keep your phone in there

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until the end of the day but i can use it can you keep it in this your rancho

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no come on please no i'm not doing that i mean how am i supposed to put in your

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hoodie okay that's awesome look it's a quick release

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so overall then you know what i'm uh

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actually kind of disappointed so do you

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so does that mean that you don't think that monoprice is clearly better than

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amazon basics no i i really don't think i would say

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that at all i think they come out ahead on the keyboard even though these

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switches are really inconsistent feeling um

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but i just the mouse isn't great the mouse pad's

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alright i think i'd have a pretty hard time recommending this monitor

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uh it's just nothing special

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stick to cables monoprice yeah good cables monoprice

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good cables and uh i mean this thing seems all right too i

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headphones or headsets um the monitor i'm pretty on the fence on

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keyboard i'm on the fence about the mouse is not great the network switch is

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a no-go uh the mouse pad mousepad's solid like kazoo though that kazoo

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my precious oh god notification

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so um

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cable ties where the cable ties

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