Lenovo 1452DS6 Portable USB LCD Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,269 words · ~6 min read
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now this is something that might not be exciting to many general consumers but
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for me personally since I often work on the go and I definitely appreciate the
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value of multiple monitors I don't know if you guys have ever seen any of the
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videos where I'm in my office but in my office I have four monitors so one of
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the major disadvantages to me of working on a laptop is not having dual screens
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because I can have a mouse I can have an
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add-on keyboard but
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well excuse me sorry I can have a mouse and add-on keyboard isn't that easy but
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I can make myself fairly mobile and fairly comfortable except carding around
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a monitor usually isn't really an option so here we have a monitor CD users guid
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and installation files although I definitely recommend downloading the latest from Lenovo uh so yeah this is a
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Lenovo product I should have mentioned that there's also a bit of
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quick start guide type thing going on here so we'll go through that when we
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get a little bit more information about the product itself this looks like some
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kind of a stand okay so there's a stand
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it's got some instructions for how it might work don't forget the USB cable it
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says okay we've also got the
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aforementioned USB cable so this is a
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dual USB a to single USB B and there's a
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good reason for that which I'll cover in a moment or uh rather mini mini mini
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yeah mini okay and finally we have the monitor itself
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so aha there we go so what is this for what
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is a what is a monitor in this particular form factor good for you
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might ask and I would say that is a very good question let me go ahead and answer
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it for you so this is a secondary
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display for your notebook that
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connects hold on a second now I'm having trouble because I've got so many
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accessories going on here that connects via USB it is not only USB powered but
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it is also here you can adjust the uh the angle to be even with that stand on
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the back to be even with the angle of your notebook but it is also USB a USB
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display so you don't need any kind of
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external output on your notebook whatsoever in fact if you do want output
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to a projector or something like that at a meeting then you can still do that so
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that's why it has two USB ports one of them is for power although they aren't
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labeled one of them is for power and one of them is for data so I'm going to go ahead and plug this in and plug this in
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to the monitor itself so that goes in
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right about there okay actually I should
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give you guys a closer a closer look at actually give me a sec for convenience
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sake I actually did use the disc sorry guys uh basically the quick setup guide
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is probably not even quite as simple as the actual process so you power on your
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laptop they actually include that as a step you uh put the dis in the thing and
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then you plug the USB things into the other USB things and then you adjust the
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brightness and that's pretty oh then you can put it away when you're done so I
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discovered a couple of other things while I was setting it up and one is
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that the case for it so that's the case that you use to store the unit when
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you're transporting it to make sure the screen doesn't get damaged also has
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little ridges right here which allow you to easily adjust the angle and have it
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not accidentally slip out so it's rubber tipped plus there's a Groove there so it
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is not going anywhere and I would suggest that it's probably usable even
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without the actual uh the actual stand one of the other things that I did was I
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found out the resolution of the display so this is a 1366 by whatever that is so
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13 66 X 768 widescreen display the
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brightness is highly adjustable I apologize Windows is not genuine this is
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not true it's genuine Windows well it's sort of true because it's genuine
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Windows but it's um I change my Hardware
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all the time which is technically not allowed but I'm not going to I mean I
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just changed the SSD in here and that's why it deactivated so uh keep changes so
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here we go so we're set up it's pretty much that simple I can show you guys the
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brightness adjustments obviously something to bear
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in mind mind about this display so right about here uh obviously something to
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bear in mind about this display is if you're running it off battery power it's going to significantly impact your
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battery life because it runs not only the power for the display off USB but
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also the data check that out you got a wide range of brightness options uh but
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the increase in productivity is probably going to more than make up for it so in
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case you guys don't know you can adjust it like this to make sure that your uh
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here we go just about like that to make sure that your mouse when you move it
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over between the two displays doesn't take that huge leap of faith so how's
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the responsiveness of it you can see that frame rate is not as good as it is
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over here because instead of using the GPU to accelerate the uh Windows effects
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we're using well just the slow data rate
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here and uh and a USB Graphics controller so be bear that in mind as
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well although for productivity it is awesome because I can throw this here I
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can you know go look at something here I can make notes over here I can adjust
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this as I see fit in a very convenient
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fashion this is a very cool product I'm just going to show you guys how simple
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it is to disconnect so you do that your laptop
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goes oh that's not connected anymore you fold up this back piece I mean the
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tooling is exceptional as we've come to expect from anything made by Lenovo it's
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just outstanding like even though it's so thin it's about the thickness well
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okay my iPhone comparison is no longer working now that I have this clunky
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battery case on it but is about the thickness of an iPhone in the thin Parts
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just like that you can see that and uh but this this it has a very solid
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overall feel to it in spite of that so I'm going to go ahead and see if I can
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figure out how this goes in here there we go just clamps in there like that
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protects the front of it simply a cool
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little product so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Lenovo think
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Vision extra monitor for laptop USB
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