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one cable opens up a world of
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possibilities with ports and connections
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out Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about ports and connections we have the
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brand new Macbook Pro with touch bar and
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USBC which means it only has
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USBC now I've been getting used to it it
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works pretty well cuz I'm a pretty
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mobile worker but when I want to sit at
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my desk and use my big Dell monitor and
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speakers and all these other peripherals
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wouldn't it be nice to have just one
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wire you plug in and it dits everything
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let's check it out maybe that's exactly
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what the OWC Thunderbolt 3 doc does so
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connector and this actually is great cuz
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not only will it now power the screen
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there you go the second screen and the
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speaker and my micro phone input Now is
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working I have an external hard drive
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plugged into the dock too and it gets
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power so all of this is working I could
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even have a keyboard plugged in or a
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little tablet if I wanted to work with
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it all of this works super easy with the
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OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock super cool let me
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give you a closeup so on the back you
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can see here we have four USB 3.1 plugs
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an SPD output a fire wire 800 ethernet
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dual Thunderbolt 3 a mini display port
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that's how I have the screen hooked up
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and power it does have its own power
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there's a lot going on inside this
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little device and on the front you can
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see here it has an SD card reader nice
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finally and audio in and out I have
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speaker plugged into it but you can do
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more with it you can use it with a
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microphone heck you can use a standard
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Apple like an iPhone headset and that
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would give you a microphone and speaker
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now you're ready to rock and roll with
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Skype easy and finally another USB 3.1
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Port so super handy and I love that I
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plug in one plug and boom everything's
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connected and everything's working let's
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double check the music's working let's
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see all right so and that's obviously
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coming out of this Bose speaker
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now okay so obviously you'd probably
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want to have an even fancier stereo
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system or audio system that's cool you
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could use it with headphones too and now
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you have a convenient Jack right there
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in fact you can just leave your
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headphones plugged in and then when
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you're ready to roll everything's done
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boom you unplug everything and you're
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ready to go and your laptop's fully
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charged super convenient now having said
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that I just want to say that this is not
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an inexpensive item so the Thunderbolt 3
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$299 at Max sales.com
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now it's you know a really substantial
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piece of Hardware it's solid it's heavy
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it's got a you know real heft to it it
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feels like something that's going to be
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running great for years so it's a bit of
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an investment but I would definitely
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tell you that you should check it out
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and if you have either the MacBook that
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has USBC cuz it has you know some other
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stuff too no actually no the the first
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gen MacBook only has a single USBC wire
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and nothing else that's a little crazy
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this one the MacBook Pro with touch bar
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actually gives you four USBC so here's
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the reality is that I can plug
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everything in here let's go ahead and
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in I can plug everything in use all of
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this and I got three more ports open so
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if I have something else that I want to
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have on USBC I can do that too so I
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really really like this it's a bit of an
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investment but if you have a setup like
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this and you want to be able to
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conveniently get started and
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conveniently pull it and walk away then
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the OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock is definitely
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a sweet option so Dave Taylor I need to
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get back to work so I'll catch you in my
