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MobilePixels GLANCE PRO Portable 15.6" Monitor -- REVIEW
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Jun 22, 2024
However big the screen on your laptop, it's pretty darn common to wish you had additional display space. A second monitor that you could slip into your computer bag or backpack? That'd be fantastic. And that's just what the beautiful MobilePixels GLANCE PRO portable 15.6" monitor offers. Tech expert Dave Taylor walks you through all of the functionality and explains why it's such a solid option (with, yes, a pretty hefty price tag). Check it out at: https://bit.ly/3WvaLvc (10% discount on the first order!) or if you prefer Amazon: https://amzn.to/3vf7ZOH Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #mobilepixels #glancepro #hdmonitor #portablemonitor #display #monitor #oled #askdavetaylor
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A super bright and portable 15.6 inch monitor
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Let's check this out. Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this
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This is the MobilePixels Glance Pro portable 15.6 inch monitor and it's pretty darn nice
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Immediately what you see is it's really bright. It has a great contrast ratio
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This is the nicest portable monitor that I've ever tested and I really like it
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It is also incredibly thin and very light and one interesting thing is that the stand is a magnet
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So if you have it in a situation where you don't need to use the stand that is easily done
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Now it is a 15.6 inch full HD screen, which means it's 1920 by 1080p
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It's an OLED display with a hundred thousand to one contrast ratio and 400 nits of brightness
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Obviously, I have it plugged into my MacBook Pro, which is closed, but it's still running the screen
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If I open it up, you can see that it is basically just mirroring what I have on the screen
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I can easily spin it around and then use it as a second display
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This works for Mac. This works for Window. This works for Chromebook
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This works for Linux. You can even plug in a Nintendo switch to one of these and get it to work for you
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Really nice. Also has dual speakers. So it actually gives you okay sound
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It's not fantastic sound, but there's really no space to put big speakers
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It's entirely functional and it has a 5000 milliamp hour battery, which gives you about four hours of use on a battery charge
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Now, let me show you you push this and you get the menu
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and one of the things that the menu shows you is your battery status
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So one of the things that I wasn't super enamored is that it can't take power as far as I can tell from the source device
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like a lot of other monitors. So it's using battery power right now
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which means that every so often I'm going to have to plug it into the wall to charge it up
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but I found that experimentally I could use the same charging setup
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I use for my MacBook Pro and just plug it into the screen instead and it charges up super fast
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Then I can use it for hours without worrying about it. So if you're out and about with your computer and you need a second display
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you probably have that charging cable anyway, so it's not a huge limitation
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but it's one worth knowing about. Now, let me close this again and let me show you what's in the box
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and then I'll come back and give you a little bit of a tour of the specific hardware
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Bend this down. And it's a really nice box. So mobile pixels did a really great job with all their packaging and everything
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You can see it's just very attractive, but in the box there is a smaller box for that magnetic leg as they call it
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I call it a stand and then it comes with three cables
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Let me just unplug this one. So this is as it's labeled
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This is the signal or data cable. This is the one you're going to want to use by default
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but it also comes with a second power cable. And again, both of these are USB-C to USB-C
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and the power cable, luckily, also comes with a little wall charger
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So they thought that through too. And then finally, if you're using a device that uses mini HDMI
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then you have this cable too. And mini HDMI is interesting. It's sort of a smaller connector on one end
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and then a traditional HDMI connector on the other, which means it has a lot of flexibility
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You could plug this into a Blu-ray player. You could plug this into a cable box
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You could plug this into a PS5 and it would work. It might not be the very best possible signal
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but you know, because it's only an HD, not a 4K or anything
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but you could definitely use this cable with something on a device
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that doesn't have USB video out. This gives you plan B. So all of those cables come with it
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And I'm going to go ahead and close that box back up again because now what I want to do is I want to give you
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a little bit more of a tour of the unit itself. So on the top, there's the power button
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And if you push and hold that for a couple of seconds, it'll turn it on or off
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But if you just give it a short push, it'll bring up that menu system
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And then there's two buttons on the side that are volume up and down
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but they also help you navigate that menu, which is obviously pretty important
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And then on the lower portion, there are three ports. There's one for that mini HDMI
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and then there's USB-C data and USB-C charging. So while you're using it
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if you're finding that you're running low on power, it's no problem at all
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You can plug in the second cable to charge it back up
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and power it while you're still using it. So I think that's really nice and flexible
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and that explains why they have the... Oops, let's get that right
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Why they have the two different ports there. What am I doing wrong here
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I think I just don't have it at the right enough angle. There we go
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There we go. Now let's get this back up. And once I have this on again
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then I'll zoom in a little bit, and I'll let you see the actual on-screen menu
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So let's switch to that view right now. So as I said, a quick push gets you the menu
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and you can see there's the battery level, brightness, contrast, there's volume
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and then you use the arrow keys up here to move around
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But remember, oops, it's also a touchscreen. So you can use this to adjust things on the touchscreen
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which is really nice. If I can see what that change does
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Let's get that back to where it was, and you can move around
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But notice also the touchscreen also actually works in macOS. So this is a real revelation
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If you're not used to having a touchscreen Mac system, then this is one way to get there
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So that's pretty cool. And again, just to go back to the menu
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you can get there at any time, and you can check all sorts of different things
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You can change inputs that just switched it to HDMI, which was probably a mistake
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But lucky it's smart enough to come back. So we're all back, and everything's all set up
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and that is how the on-screen menu system works. It is pretty slick
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That's the whole tour, and there's really a lot to like. The biggest thing with this is it's just a bright, bright screen
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In fact, this is a brighter screen than most laptops, and that makes it a really great addition
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It is, however, pretty spendy. You can buy an entry-level Linux or Chromebook
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for the price of this screen alone. So you need to decide exactly what's going to work for you
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I should point out you can also use this in this format, because you can just turn that back
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And there we go. All I have to do is go into the operating system
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and switch the orientation of the video, which is pretty easy to do in all modern operating systems
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But either way, it's just a real pleasure to do this, and I think that having this screen is really nice
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I really appreciate having the ability to have more screen real estate
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which makes me more productive. So not much else I can tell you about it
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Let me give you some dimensions. It's 14 inches by 9.2 inches by 3 tenths of an inch thick
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Very thin. 2.1 pounds. I will say I wish it came with some sort of a screen cover
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or something in the default configuration. They do have a sort of Traveler Pro version
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that's a fair amount more expensive, but it also comes with a Bluetooth keyboard
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in addition to a carrying bag. I feel like this should have at least some sort of a little cover
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you could put over it, but be that as it may, you can solve that problem yourself, too
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So what we do need to talk about is we need to talk about the price. But before we get to the price
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Great. Now this is the MobilePixels Glance Pro portable 15.6 inch monitor
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and it's $499.99, currently discounted down to $409.99. So just a smidge more than 400 bucks at mobilepixels.us
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It's a little spendy for what it is. There are definitely less expensive options
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but I'll tell you a lot of those low price external monitor options
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are very, very washed out. They're not bright. They're not easy to work with
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You can't do anything like photorealistic. You know, if you're looking at a library of photos
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because you're working on a newsletter or something, a lot of them aren't very good
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This one's beautiful. This one's as good a screen as you would get on a high-end laptop
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and that's saying something. So that's all I got. I'm going to get back to work
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So I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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