This Janky case FIXES Apple's $2000 MacBook Pro...
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,408 words · ~7 min read
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okay so apple releases the latest macbook pro now
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super thin so you're gonna need something to protect its beautifully
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finished surface and without any damn ports because you know
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whatever yolo so the average person
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thinks well gee i guess i'll just get myself
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a case okay
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so there's your case and i'll get myself a doc so i've got a
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bunch of ports
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okay whatever anyway the point is
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that's thinking inside the box meet
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the duck case it's a case
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it's a dock
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experience MSI's gs63 vr laptop now with
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NVIDIA's GeForce gtx 1070 max-q check it
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out at the link below so i had never actually heard of this
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company before they're sort of
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like in india except i don't think they are at all there's really nothing on
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here at all which made me think that because these guys are doing a
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crowdfunding campaign that they were like an unheard of nobody but then when
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i got my shipment it was from somewhere in china that seems to be some kind of
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fairly well established electronics manufacturer although maybe
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they're like contract manufacturing
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oh there we go
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that was exhausting all right so inside i actually have no idea if
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there are any options or anything like that but it looks like what i've got
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is sort of a uh a faux leather kind of uh affair here
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there is a magnetic sleeve closing mechanism here
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okay look i don't do a lot of videos on laptop cases the only reason i'm doing
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this one is because i thought that this whole concept was pretty novel so this
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is the beta version we invite you to review this product constructive
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feedback will be delivered to our product team
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very cool this sticker's ugly you're ugly that's my feedback karen
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you can go so let's try it out oh right accessories
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so you also get what i hope
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is a Thunderbolt cable that would be pretty sick
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but it is not labeled actually there's a little bit of paint on here and then
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we've got maybe it's a driver cd
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oh oh unboxing experience ruined forget it
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i'm going back to my trailer
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okay i've sorted up my trauma and we're going to open this up
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more silver more silver paper quick start guide
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first of all let's see you know how well the macbook fits i mean when you're
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gonna build a case that is exactly made for one
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particular laptop you better get the fit right
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wow this thing's probably going to be really expensive just based on like this
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really nice closed cell foam in it see that's the kind of stuff where like
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you can tell they're going for the premium market that cares more about
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having beautiful packaging than about saving a buck
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all right in terms of the fit though that's quite nice
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there's a little bit of leeway from side to side
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okay whoop okay yeah that obviously wasn't gonna go
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very well it seems like you're supposed to put your cable right up here i mean maybe
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that was in the quick start guide no not in the quick start guide
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okay fine i do actually see why they want you uh looking at the instructions
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because i thought that this was a simple
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like Thunderbolt configuration but it's not
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this is a usb type c
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but usb dock not a Thunderbolt dock
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which makes sense because why would you be powering it when you're out and about
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so it's actually got three usb type-c
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ports so this one at the back then
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you just kind of sit it there on top of the case
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so this one at the back plugs into your
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dang it into your power port on the laptop
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and it's not the world's most elegant solution but like it should be fine
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this is what happens when you don't actually use your mac every time you
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turn it on it's like
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okay so this is interesting now the way
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i had thought it would work is that you plug this into the power and you get
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power pass through but the laptop actually doesn't charge
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while you're plugged in like that so then i thought okay well maybe it's this
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one but that's not this is just a regular usb 3.1 port these are 3.0 micro
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sd sd HDMI Ethernet so no if you want to
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actually charge your device at the same
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time you have to plug them both in
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but what i don't know is how that affects the functionality of
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the dock let's try plugging something in on it
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so let's try plugging in networking
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hold on yeah you got to plug in on the other
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side this is the very definition of jacking
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someone's stuff get it because it's john's Ethernet jack
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yeah anyway
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what if i plug in like a a usb device or something okay this is
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bizarre so this is clearly pre-production there are
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some tolerance issues with the ports so when this light was red that was bad i
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had to wiggle this back one a little bit it turned green and now
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check it out so my fatty 32
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usb drive shows up the dock appears to be working
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but networking still isn't working even though it's gray
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another revelation is that with this port re-wiggled yes
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the power does pass through so your wall jack powers both the hub and the macbook
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hey okay there we go
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fantastic so it's got gigabit networking
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which is a plus not all docks especially inexpensive
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ones have gigabit and uh all that's left now is i guess to
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throw on a monitor and make sure the HDMI works okay all right
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let's see
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boom just like that not bad
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so then are we solving an incredibly first world problem here of
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you know not wanting to carry around a
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slightly bigger case and a dongle like this so this one in
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particular has almost exactly the same i
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o microsd sd power pass through gigabit
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Ethernet three usb threes and HDMI
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yes we are but is this actually a pretty cool solution
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well if i didn't think so then when they reached out about sending us one
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i would have said no forget it that looks stupid
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so yeah i like it there you go
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case the answer is that we are completely reorganizing our office this
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i gotta go help so quick video today
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i'm supposed to walk off camera no no it's fine that's funny let's leave
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it