Clearly you have never tried 4:3. For some reason 16:9 feels uncomfortable for me, maybe its the predator eyes vs herbivore eyes thing...

@luizz_k my Z Fold is pretty close to 4:3 and it's a serviceable aspect ratio for the limitation of needing to look like a phone when folded, but not ideal.

yeah it should be way cheaper than regular laptops for being usefull.

Depends on how the monitor itself handles it. This is definitely not an OLED lol

"Good" HDR is searingly bright. I have some sensory issues and struggle with stuff like that and high contrast sucks.

Would be nice to see call of duty mobile played using the keyboard

@@scaryifliteral Sorry if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you didn't play with the settings enough. In windows, you can enable HDR, then adjust the brightness of non-hdr content to look good comparative to HDR, then adjust the brightness of your monitor to be not as bright as a whole. Also windows has the HDR calibration tool which let's you set lower max brightness. Sedondly there's monitor settings: It differs per brand, but for ex on samsung you can disable "peak brightness" and put contrast enhancer on low to get lower peak HDR brightness. Good HDR implementations in games (ex. Horizon Forbidden West) allow you to set every aspect of the HDR image seperately. I also can't stand the picture looking too bright, but if you configure HDR correctly for your own eyes then it looks so good.

Look at it this way. You've got a spectrum from SDR to HDR. You can sort of tweak things to be where you want it to be to some degree. The more HDR you go, the more it bothers me and the line where it starts to annoy me is fairly early on. SDR is just safer/easier/better for me.

like wireless carplay. using wifi hotspot.

@@yunusertas Over local WiFi network or direct phone to PC and I lose local network/internet?

@@smetljesm2276 no no its using your phones wifi antenna for cominication.

It's just going to show the phone screen in the Middle with black bars on either side

Anything with hdmi or usbc will work.

You can, but at the moment you're just going to have a narrow phone screen on there with big black bars.

@@scaryifliteral Okay, thank you. I hope Google will improve and make a device like this worth it. I do like the Steam Deck option also.

A laptop cannot serve as the screen and battery for your other devices. If what you need is a laptop, I'd highly suggest buying a laptop!

@@scaryifliteral and also u dont need screen serve if u have laptop 😀 cuz lapton can do every job.

Flexibility. Like I said, if all you're doing is using Dex or something like that, it's a hard sell. If it's also a monitor for other things, that's different.

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While that's what I personally would do (well, a tablet with a keyboard anyway), I asked this same question to a group of people who use these things and the reason they like them is -.they're cheaper than a decent laptop - since their internals are things that can't become obsolete before they wear out, you only need a new one as often as the thing physically stops working - the internals are upgraded every time you get a new phone - all of your files are on one device - no cloud syncing required Absolutely there are reasons to prefer a standalone laptop or tablet instead, but if your phone's capable of running all the software you use and all you need is a bigger screen and a keyboard, this is a convenient and budget-friendly way to do that. Unfortunately, these don't come with an S Pen, aren't super thin, can't detach the keyboard, don't support Samsung Second Screen on Windows for a wireless second monitor, and force you to use Dex's layout (I think One UI for tablets is much easier to use and cleaner-looking), so paying a little more for a new tablet every so often it is.

@@scaryifliteral so why we should buy this for this price instead of buying portable scrren for waay cheaper prices? also they have 2k or 4k resulation too?

Just keep in mind, as much as I love Chromebooks, you can't really plug something into them and use it like a monitor. I definitely think there are some things they could work on improving, mention them in the video, just want to point out it's a pretty different product than a Chromebook.

I have been using Samsung Dex 100% of the time for the past four years for work (electronic medical records, web-based resources, UpToDate, word processor, Excel, Google Sheets, etc.), personal use (web browsing, movies, email, etc.; I do not play video games, by the way). I have a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, which is much faster than any Chromebook. I love Chromebooks and have been using them for years as well, but not as much lately. I have a 43-inch Samsung monitor and a 15.6-inch laptop.