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there's something so rewarding about a
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clean uncluttered desktop but for many
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of us as we go day-to-day to our jobs
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and we return to the same desk it's easy
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to start collecting all kinds of things
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on that desk and it's very easy for all
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of those things to become kind of
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necessary to get your job done whether
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it be a monitor or a certain keyboard
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setup or specific things you keep in
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your drawers whatever it is it's very
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easy to fall into the trap of having to
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go to that desk to get your job done
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every single day I know that for me as a
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person who technically has been able to
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do my job for years remotely I've kind
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of been chained to a desk because I kept
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working on my perfect desktop setup and
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I got it just the way I wanted it and
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then I found that I kind of became a
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slave to that because if I'd have once
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an at that desk every single day I felt
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like I couldn't be quite as productive
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as I wanted to be and so I've been
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experimenting with some stuff lately to
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get me back into a mode of work where I
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could pick my stuff up and work from
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just about anywhere and be just as
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productive as I am at the desk at the
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office and I want to show it to you
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before we get into that whole new
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desktop in a bag setup this video is
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technological standpoint if I'm being
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fair back six eight years ago when I
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started web development and started
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working at a job where I could decide
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where I wanted to work a lot of the
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stuff I'm going to show you didn't exist
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back then or if it did it existed in a
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form that I didn't want to use it a lot
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of things have changed over the course
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of those years and because of those
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things and my desire to be more mobile
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at this point I picked up some gear that
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I want to show you piece by piece kind
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of how I've built this mobile working
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moveable desktop so first up we have the
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power right at the core of all of this
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set up and it is for me the ravpower
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super c series battery it doesn't matter
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if you buy this one specifically will
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link it obviously below but there's
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quite a few on Amazon and at Walmart
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BestBuy what you really need to know is
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that this power pack and others like it
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can actually deliver the same wattage
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that you would get from being able to
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plug your power adapter into a wall so
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45 watts which is like big wall adapter
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kind of charging power in your pocket
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and this thing is twenty thousand one
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hundred milliamp hours so it's gonna be
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able to charge a Chromebook a couple of
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times maybe three times over depending
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on the size of the battery and so you've
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basically replaced a wall outlet with
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something you can slide in your bag it's
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not crazy heavy and it's gonna charge
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your Chromebook and anything you've got
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attached to your Chromebook just like
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your plugged into a wall outlet so again
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being able to move and keep this in your
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bag power cables all that junk solved so
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the second key element for me at least
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in this whole set up is a good USB C
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secondary monitor because in general
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there are a lot of tasks I like to do
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with a second screen and that's one of
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the things that kept me chained to my
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desk all the time I had that nice big
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monitor and I hooked my Chromebook into
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it so multi monitor display setups are
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kind of crucial for a lot of people
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anybody student data entry you got kind
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to be able to glance back and forth and
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it really hurts your productivity if
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you're used to that and then you're like
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well I'm gonna go down to the coffee
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shop and work and you've got one little
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screen you're working on so this is a
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very very key part in this whole thing
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and honestly part of what kicked all of
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this off for me in my brain was lip pal
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sent us USBC monitor and it's a 15.6
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inch all aluminum relatively light just
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over a pound with a magnetic enclosure
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here that acts as a stand and it's works
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it stood solid it feels great the screen
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looks really good nice punchy colors IPS
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display all that kind of stuff but the
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most important thing is it's USB type-c
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it's powered from USB type-c one cable
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hooks from it to the Chromebook and I
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can see my secondary display I don't
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have to plug power cables in or all that
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kind of stuff you can if you want to but
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in general I can pass this power right
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through this monitor right to my
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Chromebook and it's just one link one
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cable from here to there one cable from
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here to there and everything is powered
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and matter of fact this thing puts out
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so much power it'll charge my Chromebook
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while it's outputting both displays at
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the same time and so it's this nice
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productive kind of enclosed setup and
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the last piece to the puzzle for me at
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least is having a good keyboard and
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trackpad or mouse that is secondary so
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this only comes into play honestly if
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you are using a convertible or a tablet
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or something like that for me I like
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being able to fold the keyboard and
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trackpad portion of the pixel book back
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away from me so that I can bring both
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screens nice up and close because you
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know we're talking about a 15.6 inch
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screen and a twelve point three inch
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screen so these aren't massive screens
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that I want far away and kind of be
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sitting back I mean I want more of a
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lean for experience here because I'm not
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dealing with such a massive monitor so
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that allows me to kind of bring it up
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closer well when I do that then I need a
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secondary keyboard and mouse or trackpad
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now Bridge is supposed to be coming out
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with a trackpad pretty soon I will
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absolutely replace anything I'm using
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with that once that thing rolls out but
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for now I'm using the Microsoft mobile
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surface Mouse which is pretty decent and
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it's a bluetooth only so no dongles
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needed just hold the button down go in
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your Bluetooth settings pair it up it
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works like you'd expect it to and then
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ctype wireless keyboard it again is
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bluetooth as well pairs up very easily
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it is a true Chrome OS layout so all of
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your shortcut keys are here where you
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need them to be so in general I just
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kind of have this setting here my two
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displays up battery stuck back there
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behind it a few cables and my entire
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thing is set up my desktops ready to go
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I'm ready to sit down be productive and
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fold it all up slides right in the
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backpack goes with me and so wherever it
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is I sit down and choose to work I can
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do so and I can do so on the same level
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of productivity that I can whether I'm
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in the office or not and for me as
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someone who's able to go and work mobile
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II and get out and choose different
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places to work that's an important thing
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and I need to take advantage of that and
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I would assume that if you're watching
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this and you've watched it this far
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you're at least intrigued by the idea of
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doing this and I would encourage you do
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the same thing go out take advantage of
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the fact that you have a job where you
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can go out and move and be mobile and
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experience working in different
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environments and all that kind of stuff
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because it's a great advantage and it's
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a great thing to be able to do as long
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as you take advantage of it and as long
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as you have the tech that allows you to
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take advantage of it but guys that's it
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