*UPDATE IN DESCRIPTION* The REAL Triple Monitor Laptop - Slidenjoy *UPDATE IN DESCRIPTION*
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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whoa it's real
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this is the slide from slide and joy a
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product that actually got backed on kickstarter way back in 2015. they
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raised 600 000 and well they haven't shipped anything yet they are clearly
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still hard at work on their product and they are clearly getting a lot closer
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they're planning to ship in spring of this year
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so what is the slide well it's a triple
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monitor solution for your laptop but unlike project valerie which we saw last
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year at ces from razer this one
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actually makes an ounce of sense and is similar to what i had suggested at the
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time that razors should probably be to
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be practical it's a module that actually
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clips onto the back of your laptop screen then plugs in with just one cable
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and enables you to have either a triple monitor extended desktop or with their
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innovative kickstand a couple of other configurations now they've got two
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prototypes here this year a 15-inch and
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a 17-inch but they're planning a 13-inch and the weight for these things which is
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one of the big questions for something you're expected to carry around with you
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is anywhere from about 1.2 kilograms to 1.9 so it actually won't weigh much more
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than your laptop on its own so they've got three different options basic is
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made out of abs and aluminum with nine color options premium is leather
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alcantara wood or anodized aluminum and
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then their limited edition will be available with a real carbon fiber
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finish or full grain leather now setting
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up the slide is actually surprisingly easy you take the four pads and you can
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put them either directly on the back of your laptop or if you have a case like
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with this macbook demo that we've got here you can just put them on there the
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kickstand can then be adjusted to whatever angle you prefer and then
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finally you plug in as few as one cable into your laptop so if you're
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using usb type c or type a it's just one
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but if you're using usb 2 you will probably need two because of the lower
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power output from usb2 now the kickstand
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was a real engineering challenge because it had to be flexible enough to be
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mounted on anything from a very thin to a very thick laptop or even be left
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standing by itself when you take your laptop with you
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so it can be left flat then if you just want to take out one of your screens and
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duplicate your view for the person sitting across from you this is great
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for business meetings or consultations or it can be folded down to help support
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the additional weight of the extra screens in a multi-monitor single user
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configuration or with up to three-way
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sharing if you've got a group of people that all need to be looking at the same
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thing and the last functionality it enables is because it can stand alone
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you can actually get any size of the slide and pair it with any size laptops
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you could buy a 15-inch slide with your 13-inch laptop if you want that extra
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real estate when you're docked but you just want a smaller device when you're
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out and about so the productivity implications are
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huge with mobile devices getting more powerful and more functional every year
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we're finally getting to the point where the bottleneck really is
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screen real estate just like what happened on the desktop 10 15 years ago
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so it doesn't take a ton of imagination to think of what you could do extra work
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wise entertainment wise with two more
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1080p ips displays so the final ones are
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going to be made by lg they're going to run at 60 hertz but
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before you get too excited about the 60 hertz it should be noted they're using the usb protocol rather than displayport
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so i wouldn't expect to be gaming on them with that said if they're
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successful who knows what the future will hold so pricing goes from 350 euro
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for the basic all the way up to 850 for the limited edition and it's
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gonna be a hundred dollars more once they're actually shipping but for my
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part i see this as being a lot more practical than a laptop with built-in
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multiple displays because it gives me the option to
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just take my you know nice light mobile device out with me
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or pack an epic mobile workstation
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description that's freshbooks.com Linus ces
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so thanks for watching guys let us know in the comments what you imagine
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yourself doing with us the slide from
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slide and joy if you like this video hit like if you disliked it hit dislike if
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from ces 2018.