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An Extra Screen Anywhere with the ViewSonic VG1656N 16-Inch Portable Monitor
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May 29, 2025
Whether you're used to working on your laptop, tablet, or mobile device, there comes a time where more screen real estate would be beneficial. Enter the splendid ViewSonic VG1656N 16" Portable Monitor. With battery power (up to 3 hours!) and a wireless adapter included, you can hook it up to a Windows PC, Mac, Chromebook, Android device, even an iPhone, and instantly have a big, bright, beautiful second screen. Tech expert Dave Taylor navigates its on-screen menus to show a variety of demoes with his own devices. Check it out at: https://amzn.to/49sapN6 Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 1:10 Wireless Demo with iPhone 3:06 Peacock Movie Streaming from iPhone 5:55 Wired Demo with MacBook Pro 7:11 New Stand Design Walkthru 8:05 Portability 9:20 Conclusions and Pricing #viewsonic #vn1656N #portabledisplay #portablemonitor #askdavetaylor
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a portable display with battery and
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wireless capabilities let's check it
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out Dave Taylor here and there are
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plenty of times that I need a little
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more screen real estate than I get on my
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MacBook enter portable monitors this is
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a whole category and vew Sonic has been
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an absolute leader I've looked at a
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number of their products this is the
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next generation and boy does it include
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some cool features one of which is that
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it has a different actual case that
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covers the front and back and it's kind
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of an interesting case because if I fold
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that out I can now set it up as a stand
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there we go and what you'll notice right
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now is that it does not have any wires
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plugged into it at all so it does have
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USBC and it's a USBC to us BC wire so I
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can use it in wired mode with my laptop
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but it also has and I'm going to just
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turn this is going to turn off for a
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second it has this this is so cool this
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is a wireless casting device with
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USBC that you can plug into devices and
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then it will just transmit that signal
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and you're thinking okay well that's
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interesting for laptops but it's more
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than laptops watch that screen because I
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just plugged it into my iPhone 15 Pro
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and once it establishes its handshake
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you'll see that iPhone screen show up on
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the display and again it is in wireless
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battery mode so it doesn't have any
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power source let's see what's happening
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here um me plug it in a second time you
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know demos never quite work the way you
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want let's try that and see if that's
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better and and so it also comes with a
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fairly chunky power adapter but you can
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use anything you want cuz you need to
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give it power there we go there's my
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iPhone so you need to give it power to
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charge the battery or to just use it in
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powered mode but if you plug it in with
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a wire to your computer your computer
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will probably give it enough power all
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by itself it worked with my Mac and it
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worked with the Windows machine I tested
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it with now let me tell you a little bit
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so this is a 16-in IPS monitor at 1920
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by 1200 at 60 HZ with 170° viewing angle
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so you can see other than the reflection
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of my lights it's a pretty wide view
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angle which I really like the case takes
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a little getting used to cuz there's
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ways you can adjust it to work at
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different angles um the screen is
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anti-glare though again when I have
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lights pointing directly at it that's a
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pretty tough environment for it the
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battery can run up to three hours
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depending on what you're doing with it
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and since we're in a demo let me go over
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to
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Peacock and watch this this is so cool
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all right so I can't play very much of
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this but I was watching Despicable Me
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and remember this is wirelessly right
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and so it is transmitting that
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wirelessly I'm going to pause it but it
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also has built-in speakers so it's 2 two
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watt speakers so it's not going to blow
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you away with its audio Fidelity but
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it's plenty enough to actually watch a
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movie or something or check out your
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favorite YouTube videos while you're
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working or something or maybe go to your
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fantasy football
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and a lot of the apps that I use don't
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tend to rotate so that means that on an
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iPhone or an Android phone it's going to
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look like this but you can rotate the
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screen too with an operating system that
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supports that rotation so on a Windows
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or Mac I could go into display and I
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could actually say rotate at 90° to
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match they also have software for PC
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where if you rotate the screen it'll
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automatically send that signal to the
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computer but I really like that it's
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plug-and playay and I don't have to
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install anything for this level of
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functionality you don't need to see my
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losing fantasy football
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team so let's see I've told you about
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the display I've told you about the
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battery I've told you about about this
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incredibly cool Wireless casting but
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let's go ahead and I'm going to switch
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it to be in wired mode and this is done
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by let's see pushing I think I need to
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power
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down and then turn off this by basically
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unplugging it and then power
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on and then as long as I plug things in
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so we're going to have that USBC and it
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has a USBC port on each side for
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convenience which is really nice I'm
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plug the other side into my
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Mac and then I will wake up my Mac and
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it should just automatically see it nope
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I have to push so now watch what happens
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I'm going to push the volume
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control and that brings up let's see
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that should bring
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up um let's see you know with demos
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you're never really sure what's going to
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happen when you're live on camera let's
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try this again and this time I'm going
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to push the button while it's booting up
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and that should get us to the onscreen
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display or no give me a second I have to
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actually fiddle with this a little bit
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to get it out of the wireless
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transmitter mode and into the wired mode
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got it all figured out and my Mac
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automatically uses it as a second
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display so with the this means is that I
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can for example drag something onto it
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and now I would have this screen might
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be where I'm taking notes and this
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screen might be where I'm viewing
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content and what I really like is that
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every generation of these displays have
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better and brighter displays and this
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one is just beautiful as you can see
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it's eminently viewable eminently
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watchable is it fast enough for video
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gaming well probably not there is some
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latency particularly when you're in the
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wireless mode there is some latency that
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you might find a bit distracting or
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problematic for gaming but certainly for
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watching video content it is plenty good
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enough and for something like as you saw
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peacock watching a movie right off your
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phone ridiculously convenient and easy
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to work with and I did have a little
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hiccup with that onscreen display that's
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something where as you spend more time
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with these devices you get a little a
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little bit more familiar with how you
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switch between them so I'm going to
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chalk that up to newbie
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problem but all in all so much to like
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here now let me unplug this and I want
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to show you the back too because I'm
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still not entirely sure I like the new
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case design so on the plus side it does
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give you the ability to adjust it to
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various angles so I can for example do
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this and get get it at a lower angle or
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even do this and have it be let's see
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there's a way to do it like
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that guess you have to get it just the
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right spot like that if I want it to be
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at a really low angle but I kind of like
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the old one where there was just a
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little metal leg on the back that you
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extended but this one will take a little
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getting used to but the huge Advantage
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is that it covers the front and the back
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so from a portability and transportation
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perspective this is terrific and I'll
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just say this is about 2 lb and you can
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see it's about half an inch thick so
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it's really easy to carry this with you
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when you need more screen real estate so
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for example maybe you're on a road trip
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and you know you're going to be working
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in a hotel room or in a hotel I don't
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know office space just take this with
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and a wire or just throw this in your
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bag
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and you've got two screens boom like
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that it's super easy and you can charge
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this overnight with all your regular
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USBC charging stuff so really I am a big
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fan of this I really like vew Sonic's
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approach to these and I'll get used to
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the case I expect but lots to like here
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and let's see I'm going to open this up
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again so we'll push this down as we go
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and then that gives me let's see that
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angle and then then I can turn it
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on and my computer's turned off and it's
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in wired mode so we got sort of minus
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two here so let's plug things in and it
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should default to the last mode it used
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so let's see what happens when I open my
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computer and unlock it there we go we go
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right back to where we were and really
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lots to like so that's what I got for
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you it's compatible with Mac and PC and
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smartphones and tablets and Android and
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iPhone anything that has USBC you can
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plug this into or you can try plugging
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in the wire and seeing how that works
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but I mean honestly once you use this
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once you're going to be sold this is a
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really slick approach here so that's
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value great now this let me make it a
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little bit steeper there this is the
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vonic VG
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1656 n portable monitor and it is
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$299.99 currently discounted down to
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25649 at
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amazon.com in terms of getting a second
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display if you want one that's always
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going to be in one place then there are
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less expensive options but if you want
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one that's highly portable and easy to
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throw in your computer bag or your
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briefcase or your suitcase this is an
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amazing option and the addition of this
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plus battery power means it's also a
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game Cher for when you're in transit and
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you don't want to have a tablet and a
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laptop and a phone and all these other
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things so definitely want to check out I
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am going to go back to Despicable Me so
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I'll have to get to you in my next video
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