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If one screen is good, then surely two screens are twice as good! Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Viewsonic VG-1655 15.6" portable HD monitor and finds that there's a lot to like with this big, bright display. Better yet, you can connect via USB-C or HDMI, so you can hook it up to a game system, PC or Mac computer. With the right adapter, you could connect an iPhone or Android device too. So is it all good news? Well...
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A portable monitor that's better than your computer screen
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Let's check this out. Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this
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Well, let me open up the cover. You can at least see the screen
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This is the ViewSonic VG1655 15.6 inch portable monitor. And it's a big, beautiful LCD monitor that works great with Mac or PC
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But you can use it with really almost anything. So it has this flexible cover
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And then on the back, there's also this metal cover. So you can stand it up at a variety of different angles
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And it has some really nice, big, wide viewing angle, 178 degree viewing angle
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So it's perfect for having on the meeting table and sharing your presentation with people
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Or just having it as a second screen for your own work. Or honestly, having like your favorite Netflix show or some live sports while you're working
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So all of that happens because there are connections on this one side
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And you can see it's two USB-C and then a mini HDMI and then an audio out
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So that works pretty smoothly. And it includes a USB-C to USB-C cable
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And it's kind of a fun one because it's different shape connectors
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And then there's also USB-C to USB 3.0. And there is mini HDMI to regular HDMI
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And here's the thing. If you're going to hook up with HDMI, the HDMI standard doesn't actually transmit power
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So you'll also need to use your USB-C and the wall charger
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So that you can power the screen. You can power it with your computer if you need to
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But your computer needs to push out at least 10 watts for the screen to work
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Now the good news, what I really like about these, is that if you have just USB-C, USB-C does transmit power
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So I'm going to plug this into my MacBook Pro. And then I'm going to come all the way over here
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Maybe we'll go behind so it's a little bit more aesthetically pleasing
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And I'm going to plug it into the USB-C. And then we should be able to just mirror the screen
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Let's see what happens. It's already turned on. And I'll turn on and open up my MacBook Pro
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And if everything's working correctly, there we go. So now as I do things, you could see this would be one way I could be sharing with people
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how to use this device. Or how to work with a piece of software or training or something, right
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Or I can turn off screen mirroring and have this as a second screen
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It works for Mac. It works for PC. You might need to download a driver from ViewSonic for a PC
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But lots to really like about this. Now let me tell you some specs
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It's a 1080p resolution, which means it's 1920 pixels by 1080 pixels
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It's an 800 to 1 contrast ratio with an anti-glare screen and a 3H hardness coating
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So it should be able to survive pretty well. As I said, it has a 178 degree viewing angle, which means that you're still getting a good
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picture even as I go at different angles. So I have issues here with glare from my set
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But that looks pretty good. Two USB-C ports. If you do use this for power, you can also plug into the second USB-C and charge your computer
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So you can actually work in both directions, which is kind of fun. Then with the mini HDMI, that gives you regular HDMI on the other end, which you could plug
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into a Switch. You could plug into a PlayStation. You could plug into a Blu-ray player
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Whatever you want that's pushing out HDMI, it will just be able to use this as basically
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a small TV screen. And it does have those two speakers. Let me go to a YouTube and, well, let's go to my own channel
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And let's push this out. Let's see. So that's these speakers
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Now, to be fair, it's not the same as a big, fully robust speaker system
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But in terms of being able to hear the commentator when you're watching a sporting event or have
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a little bit of music in the background or something, the built-in speakers work fine
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Remember, there's an audio jack. So you could also plug in a pair of headphones or external speakers if that worked better
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for you. So there's a lot to like here. It's a very robust system
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And it has its own built-in menu system and everything, which I could show you
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But this is pretty basic stuff. It lets you set contrast and brightness and things like that
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And it's just a little knob on the back. Let me give you a little bit more of a tight close-up so you can see this displaying some video
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And you can see that it works really pretty cleanly. Yes, tonight's two of the biggest and best in the land
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But it is here for Milan. And what a return! What a goal
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Whoa, what a good goal it was. I often find myself working on the road
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So having something that's this slim and this portable and yet gives me this big, bright
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screen is really, really useful. So this is really great for road warriors
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But even if you just have, you know, you're working from home and you have your kitchen
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table has turned into your office, then doing this gives you two screens
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You can fold it all up, put it all away when you're done, set the table for dinner
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So really super flexible. There's lots to like about this. If you're doing presentations, then having this means you have your own setup
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You don't have to worry about is the projector compatible? What external display do you have
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You have it all self-contained. Really lots to like about that. So let's talk about the price
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But before we do, let me just give you some quick dimensions. So it's 14 inches by 8.8 inches by six tenths of an inch thick, and it's 1.8 pounds
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So it's very portable. You know, it is really just like having another computer screen
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It just happens to be a separate external standing unit. So really, I really like this sort of device and I've looked at other ones and none of
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them are anywhere near as bright as this ViewSonic. This makes all the other ones I've looked at just, you know, just put some to shame
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because they tend to be a little dim. They don't work in bright environments
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This thing is plenty bright enough. This is a full high quality ViewSonic screen
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And there's a reason ViewSonic has such a great reputation for displays and monitors
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because they make really good ones. So this is definitely one of those
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Now, let's talk about price. But before we get to price, let me ask if you can give me some feedback
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And that leaves us to the price. So this is the ViewSonic
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Get that glare off. There we go. The ViewSonic VG1655, 15.6 inch portable monitor, and it's $218.98
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You can check it out at ViewSonic.com. They also have the TG1655, and that includes a touchscreen capability, which isn't going
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to do you any good on a Macintosh, but on a PC, it should work just great
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And that bumps the price up to $263.48. So definitely, I'm a big fan
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This is just a great addition to any serious worker, whether you're in school and you just
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want to have reference content on one screen while you're writing your term paper or your
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thesis on the other, or you're a professional and you need more screen real estate
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This is a solid solution that's going to work with Mac or PC
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I definitely am going to keep this with me when I'm on the road. And with that, I'm going to go back to watching some Netflix, actually, which means I'll catch
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you in my next video
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