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today we're checking out the seala S6
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this is a dual monitor package that you
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can set up next to or around your laptop
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so you take the one screen you have on
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your laptop and you introduce a triple
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screen setup which is really cool and I
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haven't seen too much out there like
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this there's of course single monitor
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setups you can do but you could take
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these two monitors and travel with just
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one if you wanted to you don't have to
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use both at once however if you want to
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use both this stand which magnetically
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Clips to either side of the mon of
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either monitor sorry connects to the
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backside of either monitor this stand is
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really the star of the show because this
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carries the burden that enables you to
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connect both monitors together and then
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have a have a complement or surround
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your laptop so this thing is a little
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bit heavy it's made of metal and then
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plastic with a cool carbon fiber fiber
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weave it's labeled conveniently left and
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right and then these little horseshoe
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shaped um brackets these are what's
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going to enable the rotation so if you
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want to have your monitors one in
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portrait one in landscape or you know
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whatever combination thereof you can
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very easily facilitate that now what
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this does is it articulates out so if
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you have a big laptop like a 17 or
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18inch laptop you pull this all the way
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out you put one monitor on either end
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and now it can hug your primary display
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on your big laptop or like a 16 in might
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be closer to here which is what I'm
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going to show you on this or you for
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compact travel sorry that was loud for
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the travel and compactness you put it
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all together like that okay so the way
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you make this work is that you pull left
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and right out and then you open up the
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stand this is a very tight hinge and um
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you know we'll see how this holds up
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over time but you put it what I would
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say is upside down yeah I would imagine
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the other way but anyway this works
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great and then you can pull your monitor
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arms out out put the monitors on here
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and then articulate them the way you
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want but we're going to put this to the
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side for just a moment because I want to
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give you a tour of the monitors
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themselves now these are 15.6 in 1080P
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monitors they are not super bright 300
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nits is the rating it seems lower to me
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I don't have any of the fancy technology
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to check that and they're also um, to
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one contrast ratio now when I fired
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these up for my testing they just didn't
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come off very bright the contrast to me
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wasn't great but I haven't played around
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too much with the settings I was just
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trying to get them to power on and then
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get the Windows settings to work and
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that it I got it to all work but I
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learned something in the process that
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I'll share with you in a moment but I do
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need to spend some time giving you a
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tour of this now you'll see three ports
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here you have USB type-c labeled C1 and
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C2 and then USBC with display port now
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this I found helpful for connecting
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directly to HDMI so USBC to HDMI on my
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laptop because I don't have a laptop of
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display port so I can't test it that way
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I thought this would work if I plugged
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it directly into Thunderbolt I don't
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know a whole lot about ports but
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unfortunately to make this setup work I
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had to use an extra cable but seala
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includes all the cables that you need in
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the package more on that in a minute and
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then this is a power button with a
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rocker so you can get into the menu and
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make some adjustments there and you'll
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notice a complimentary you know inverted
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horseshoe here so you can easily Slide
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the monitor onto the appropriate arm
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they're labeled this way intentionally I
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do want to call out you know sometimes
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it happens you receive a product that
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has some cosmetic damage that happened
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here my presumption is the metal was
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just rubbing on this so perhaps if this
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had shipped with a plastic coating you
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know this wouldn't have happened but you
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know for me it's a product that I get to
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review it's doesn't bother me but if I
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bought this on Amazon and it arrived
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that way I would definitely send it back
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and try to get another one and you'll
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notice that the other monitor is the
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exact same so if I pull this apart one
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last distinction before I connect them
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to my laptop and show you how it works
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is that one side has a rubber grip and
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then the other side has an indentation
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you'll notice that the the bezels are
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not uniform so just make sure when
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you're putting this together that you
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have the right orientation
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and it will magnetically close and as I
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mentioned before the stand will also
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magnetically cach to either this side or
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this side kind of depends on how you
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want to set it up okay so getting this
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all connected is not hard but something
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that I learned in the process of doing
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this is that usability it will really
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depend based on your laptop so for
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example my MacBook is full of
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Thunderbolt ports on either side it also
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has an HDMI port my my gaming laptop
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that I'm using for testing right now is
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Lenovo Legion 7 and it has a different
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setup so gaming laptops with Nvidia
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graphics cards have Optimus so you can
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decide if you want to have discret GPU
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or you want to use a hybrid mode I've
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been running this laptop in discrete GPU
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mode and I didn't even think about that
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when I was you know doing this testing
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and I learned that if I you know really
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want to make this setup work with a
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gaming laptop I probably need to be
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using hybrid mode to make it all happen
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so I'm going to switch it to hybrid mode
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and do a restart and then I'll go ahead
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and set this all
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up okay so now it's
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restarting to connect these monitors
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physically to the arms it's not hard at
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all but one thing that I learned in in
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addition to the whole ports thing is
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that you're probably better off plugging
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the cables in before you attach the arms
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because CU you have more room to work
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with so included in the Box super cool
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you get 90° cables so let me just do a
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little cable Kung Fu here okay I've got
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cables all around me that's what I'm
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referring to so here's a 90 that plugs
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into one of the monitors I'll do that
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now I'm going to plug it into
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C1 it's really hard to do on camera okay
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now that I have it connected I'll just
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slide this in so watch as I do
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this in frame
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awesome okay what I was trying to
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do is slide it together like left hand
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right hand bang and you noticed I had to
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lift this up off the table in order to
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like really get my grip on it and now
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you'll notice that all the weights
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distributed to one side don't worry
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everything's fine nothing's going to
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fall but if if you're on a tight setup
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like a small cafe table maybe think
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twice before busting out your extra two
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monitors but anyway it's all doable but
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it's just be careful I guess is the
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point of trying to make okay now we need
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cable which I've conveniently misplaced
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oh no I didn't was inside the travel bag
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okay Cable number two same thing so
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we'll go here plug it into USB type C1
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and now we'll we'll get the balance
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working but before I do that I'm just
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going to pull this down so it's in frame
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you and I'm going to try to do this
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blind got it
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okay two monitors connected right to to
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rock there's the travel case let's keep
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that over there okay so we got our two
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monitors and what I can do very easily
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is just rotate these and you can see
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there's plenty of clearance I don't have
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to like really lift it off the table too
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much and risk further you know drops or
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damage in order to get it to work I am
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going to pull this out a little bit
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because I'm using a 16inch laptop it's a
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little bit on the thicker side I'm try
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to get this back for you okay there we
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go now it's monitor time or laptop time
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so since this is a gaming laptop with
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not the best battery life it's good
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battery life I'm going to plug it in
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because I don't know how long it's going
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to take for me to get this done I might
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just talk your guys ear off I might make
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a bunch of mistakes that I have to edit
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out so I'm just going to plug it in get
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right so if I wanted to I I now have a
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pretty cool a pretty slick
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setup with two monitors and they're
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wrapped around the primary monitor but I
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could also do it where these two are
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independent of the laptop and they're
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off on the side together if I wanted to
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let's go and plug them in so I'm going
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to plug into USB type-c
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3.2 see it's powering up and powering on
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Windows detects it and it remembers you
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know the setup and everything now I'm
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going to plug in the other
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one to the other USB
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type-c and it's not turning on nothing
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is happening so earlier I mentioned that
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I've been running in discreet GPU mode
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and then I was going to switch over to
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hybrid mode I I did I made the switch to
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hybrid mode and it didn't make a
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difference now I'm going to plug it into
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the only Thunderbolt 4 Port that I have
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it's getting power and we have display
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now when I was in discreet GPU mode I
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had to leverage HDMI so C ofala included
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a USBC to HDMI cord that wouldn't
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provide Power but at least provide video
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signal and then in addition to that you
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would need a second cable just going
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into USBC to get power to the monitor so
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depending on you know if you want to
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carry three cables around cuz you have
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to because your laptop setup you you may
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not want this product but I'm telling
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you if you just need one cable for each
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monitor this is an awesome setup it's so
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cool all right
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now you can just like any other Windows
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device you can go into your display
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settings and you can just drag where you
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want things so I'm going to move this
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one over to the right let me do a quick
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identification okay good I got got it
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right but that one up there it's a
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little bit higher than number one number
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two is a little bit higher than number
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one and apply and now we have a triple
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monitor setup so I could very easily
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just drag things over I know this isn't
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very exciting we all know how multim
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monitor setups work in Windows but it's
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super easy so I could have a you know
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Word document on the left I can have a
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browser in the middle I can have Excel
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spreadsheet on the right I can rotate
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this so that I have you know maybe my
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chat for Discord is up here on the left
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and then I'm doing work and stuff on the
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right since I have power running to this
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I could play a game in the middle and I
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can have Maybe YouTube on one side and
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uh you know slack or something also open
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the possibilities are not Limitless um
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but they're not hampered you can do
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whatever you want with these monitors if
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you were home on your desktop plugged
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into two external monitors all right
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that's the seala S6 this is a super cool
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product $400 on Amazon it comes with all
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the cables the two monitors the stand
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and the carrying bag right now it's on
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sale I'm going to try to get this video
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out so that you can take advantage of
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the sale be aware of it and everything
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but I don't know when the sale end so
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I'm going to rush to get this out
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without doing any edits or anything now
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I will do a more in-depth review that'll
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be a written review and it'll be posted
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on Geeks worldwide so that's the gww
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docomo ready I'll come back to this
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video and I'll put the link in there for
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you thanks to cala for sending this over
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this is a really cool different product
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and super convenient to use so I hope
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