this is not productive enough
what
by seuss's beard three monitors in one portable package
my dreams have come true or so i thought
it's true that i've wanted something like this for a long time and after
seven years a stolen razor prototype and
a sleazy kickstarter that has allegedly ripped off backers for nearly 650 000
and counting someone finally did it they finally
stepped up to actually deliver what appears to be on the surface the
ultimate road warrior productivity tool but is clumsy just their name or is the
product kind of clumsy too i know it's not as clumsy as this segue
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i'd forgive you for thinking that the clumsy p2 pro triple monitor is a scam
because it wouldn't be the first it's story time ladies and gentlemen
five years ago at ces the team from slide and joy gave me a demonstration of
their much-hyped le slide and young
naive Linus believed that they were a legitimate company and he was excited to
see the slide come to market since then slide enjoy has missed every
production deadline they've set for themselves they've undergone a rebrand
to portable probably in an effort to cover up their troubled history and
they've provided precious little evidence that they've ever actually
shipped anything to an end user oh and it gets worse
their kickstarter page features years of complaints about delays and on their
website we've got this review page with pictures of happy customers except that
almost all of them are taken with the founders in the same house slash office
this one's a duplicate as for the independent media coverage
oops none of those logos actually link anywhere probably because any old
coverage of these guys has been updated with warnings like this one
and they are still taking people's money
and funneling it into viral marketing stunts on social media
how do we know because they stupidly reached out to one
of our sister channels techlinked offering us 20 euros per conversion
that's a pretty bad offer considering how much they're obviously keeping the
cherry on top is they even admitted they have no stock of it not even a demo unit
so that we could see in person what we were promoting and it's because of butt
heads like these guys that we're no longer able to cover crowdfunding
campaigns that takes important promotion away from honest people who are actually
trying to solve problems for their users problems like not having enough pockets
in your hoodie when hoodies now in stock on all sizes lttstore.com
scammers aside razer's project valerie was another cool attempt at this idea
but it was allegedly stolen from their booth at ces 2017 and razer made it
clear at the time that it was more of a proof of concept rather than a real
product that was then though this is now
clumsy's p2 pro has its own sketchiness
to overcome like the fact that an apparently identical product from offiah
also exists but at least they managed to ship us one
so let's take a look at it and here it is we shot this out of order
so this is my first actual hands-on with this thing qualm zp2 pro they got a bit
of a kerning issue here um it's more
like the k1z try screen notebook expansion screen
presentation mode portrait mode triple screen mode it does exactly what those
rip-off artists promised that their product would do i couldn't help noticing it's really heavy
oh okay it's 1080p 60hz 1000-1 contrast ratio
16x9 13.3 inches
oh okay comes in some kind of plastic
leather carrying case oh okay this isn't packaging this is just to cart the thing
around with with you we've got a usb type a wall board this puppy is good for
5 volts 3 amps so it's a total of 15
watts that'll probably be enough to drive both of these panels a type c to
type c a dual type a to type c this is a
lot of cables we actually have two of these type c to type c's what they did
is to cover their bases it's like if you don't have usb-c power delivery
you might need two usb-c ports if you don't have two usb-c ports then you can
use two usb a ports and a usb-c port oh
no just two-way or and a usb-c port oh i see
for a random product from a manufacturer i've never heard of before this is
actually a surprisingly decent quick start guide oh there's a
micro sd reader in here well that's cool is why is there a card
in here is this just a placeholder no that has data on it this has data on it
this is how they give you the display drivers you need drivers for it kinda
should i try and hook this up and see what happens yeah let's do that oh boy
uh okay
got a little kickstand on there you can adjust the angle like that i know you
mentioned this to me already adam it is 13.3 inch compatible specifically 13.3
inches no more no less well
some more some more you can make it you can make it a lot bigger it supports up
to oh you can make it bigger supports up to some 17 inch oh i see oh i lied again
look at that all right we got our one cable solution
hopefully so here's if we have power delivery i'm
hoping for power delivery here okay
oh p2 pro oh it's really dim do they advertise a
brightness spec on the box it says 220
nits that seems optimistic and this is
the part where i'm supposed to figure out how to actually
get it to operate i guess then because i do not see
the um sd card i'll figure it out and this has
got to be just a one time thing okay but
no maybe the pd port is just for power in okay i'm gonna i'm gonna assume that
type c then okay i'm trying the type c port how about now but
okay it's a little heavy a little clumsy you might say all right
my usb drive is here driver download address
text document just in the interest of uh time i
installed the drivers on one computer they didn't do anything oh
really oh so how do i get it working sometimes it's just a matter of is that
is that for sure power delivery port i mean this says smi usb display like and
that's what the drivers would be it's just smi you also don't need
to use the sd card they do have drivers available on their website but they do
take you to a google drive okay you say i don't need
the drivers but it's not working without the driver so i do need the drivers are
you in a power delivery usb port well i don't know does i have a little
lightning bolt buy it no maybe you should try both try both
or it might just not work because they're a chinese company and a small
one their documentation is very lacking and also it's a niche product so you
don't hear many people going on forums trying to solve it right i definitely
need that driver like it's it's showing up and i'm prompted for a Windows 11 oh
it's on all three screens i didn't even notice i was so busy being like no i
don't want Windows 11 right now well that's awesome
they're really dim and they don't dim and brighten which i didn't expect them
to to be very clear you can adjust the brightness with the on-screen display oh
so there's controls at the top is that what the plus
i don't even understand what i'm doing here the controls are pretty unintuitive yeah
wow brightness does not seem to be actually changing panel backlight
intensity it seems that's the image adjusting the gamma yeah that's the
gamma if you scroll down to the bottom of this menu
oh it doesn't change is that the joke
oh oh wait eventually it does hold on eventually it does when you get into
like the last 20 it does actually change meaningfully how do i exit this menu you
just wait for it to time out they advertise 207 degrees of rotation but
that that's that's coming from the back right which is super frustrating because
this is really wide and just bringing it in like 5-10 degrees makes it take up so
much less space the viewing angles are also not amazing
these are not a matching 13-inch size
are they oh actually you know what i think it is i think it's this is a
inch but it's a 16 by 10 so there's just a little bit of confusion there that
also explains why you're having a bit of a better experience my laptop because
it's 16x9 this bezel ends up digging
into the ground and like making it so like i can't easily
manipulate it which is really frustrating 16 by 10 life man yeah it's
a good one you should have chosen better everything is solved in my currency
yeah yeah neither can we there is a solution actually to the dimness really
but it's not clearly labeled in their manual right why would it be it is on
their website though now when i was testing i only got 93 nits for peak
brightness uh-huh and i was like clearly not right yeah they promised 220. i
thought maybe it's 90 190 plus 90 is a high it's 180 it's
closer get in there what you actually need to do
is plug in both cables no
so it'll work with just one as long as you're in the dark yeah
there we go two cable solution
not ideal but not bad i mean it's
certainly usable okay cool so i got my excel over here i'm you know managing my
home assistant thing here like that is a freaking lot of screen real
estate for a laptop is it a little clumsy
yeah and we haven't even tried to pack it up yet he already made that joke i
know but it's a good it's a funny joke when it comes time to pack it up
you know what i say about this i say don't hate because no one else is doing
it better this actually
does not take that long to pack up
they've got a nice little some kind of i don't know like a suede alcantara to
be clear i'm not saying it's either of those materials it's probably something much cheaper but it's they've got a
thing on there okay unlikely to damage the screen
got this boy here nowhere to really stow all the cables
you're gonna need that's a bit of an oversight but hey realistically you've
got a bag you're carrying this thing around in with your laptop anyway yeah
late 90s form factor but very 2020s
real estate one thing to note is that this will not be easy on your battery we
tested it on our 17 17 MSI creator z16p
yeah and it cut the battery from 30 like by
33 like you lost of like a couple hours of
battery life with a laptop like that if you weren't plugged in anyway you were
going to have a pretty clummy experience Linus isn't here yet so i'm going to use
this time to air my grievances these aren't damning but something that
manufacturers should consider if they make a v2 and please make a v2 i want
this to be great one have the screens flip vertically so
that i can close them into the case without having them exposed during
transport two increase the rotation of the hinge
mechanism so i can bring the monitors in a little bit tighter three a reworker of the kickstand to be
spring-loaded and having locking points would be great and finally brushed
aluminum is a fingerprint magnet i don't like it and hopefully we can get better
color calibration from the factory that would be the cherry on top hey Linus
we're ready for you great
the elephant in the room is of course the fact that there are two brands
clumsy and ophia advertising the same
lineup of products there are actually a few potential explanations for this they
could both be rebranding a product from a third-party oem
they could be sister brands that share products kind of like if oppo and
oneplus had two very similar or near identical phones
or one of them could be acting as an odm
so that's an original design manufacturer kind of like how foxconn
builds iphones but those are designed by
apple and then it could be that that manufacturer is then secretly selling
that other company's design out the back door we don't know which of these
situations is right it's all speculation but what we can say for sure is that
clumsy has a pretty cool product on their hands it is actually real but the
standard small company disclaimers do apply here the documentation as we saw
is kind of lacking and we haven't tested their customer service but that's the
risk that you take when you go with a brand that doesn't have an established presence in your particular region but
hey at least they've made a better first impression than slide and joy right
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