how many pixels is that though well someone’s going to have to do the math on screen just like 1 billion pixels I’ve got in front of me something called the fusion doc Max one for my vany and this is probably the most capable dock that I’ve ever seen or had if this thing comes crashing down that is literally $21,000 cracked that’s so crazy I mean I guess it’ll be counter weighted this thing is capable of pumping Out video from a MacBook to three 6K displays and one 4K display from one single dock we actually happen to have those monitors here in the studio we’ll just have to pile them together and then of course LG sent us one of their latest my view smart monitors in order to make up that final monitor to add to this wild setup now the way that this works is obviously via Thunderbolt it is designed for Mac OS and it is designed for up to a quad monitor setup I think the best way to do this is to do the three xdr displays 6K * three along the bottom and then we’ll do the 4K display on the top it’s going to require a little bit of adjustment I haven’t used this particular Mount before but it seems like it’ll have the reach all your peripherals keyboard mouse you’re going to get a built-in SD card slot we’ve got gigabit Ethernet so we can stay wired we’ve also got a security slot so we can keep everything locked down power delivery over the Thunderbolt cable so we can deliver 96 watts of power and we’ve got optical audio if we want to send digital audio out to any of our uh external gear it all mounts to the desk and then it’s height adjustable via this pole but it will be a kind of trial and error situ ation to figure out your Heights this looks roughly where I need to be so that’ll work but then we may run out of space above I think we got to go lower maybe there I mean I don’t think we can go any lower I think that’s it just like this that’s it so because these plates are so easy to take on and off I guess if you did want to adjust the height at a later moment it wouldn’t be that big of a [Music] [Music] deal how the how do you tighten that piece if we have a Mac Mini M1 or M2 basically any of these laptops can go to a single display that’s that’s not much of a surprise dual display now we’re talking about MacBook Pro M1 M2 M3 Pro or a Mac Mini with an M2 Pro and then when we talk about quad displays we’re looking at MacBook Pros that are either M1 M2 or M3 Max for the purpose of this setup that we’re going to build we’re going to go with an M3 Max yeah so this has a tension piece on it to adjust your angle and the amount of force required to move that angle after you have it mounted so you have to offset for whatever type of weight you’re dealing with this is going to be interesting this is going to be quite interesting oh man well these are precarious mounts hey can you imagine putting $20,000 worth of monitors on this Mount look at it it’s already bending that way oh [Music] jeez oh my God that’s a lot of pixels right there 6K * 3 I’m always going to put the math right here total number of pixels currently and we’re going to still add 4K to it this is the LG my view smart Monitor and what’s cool about this is having this as your fourth monitor it’s a 4k monitor this is the maximum output from the M3 Max MacBook Pro 36k 1 14k but what’s cool about this it has a remote control it’s a smart monitor so it behaves kind of like a TV dive into the smart interface and just like watch Netflix or stream sports or whatever you want to do just write on the monitor natively the other cool thing about this monitor is it’s going to have speakers as well wow that’s pretty cool jeez and I like the double 32 like it’s just so symmetrical and I suppose you could take the the upper one and put a little more tilt on it yeah like that it’s kind of tilting down oh yeah that’s sick oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah I forgot it also comes with a webcam a magnetically attaching webcam they showed me this at CES and it’s got the Privacy shield on it there’s a magnetic connection point on the back here lines up with this and your camera just fits on there and if you want it off for whatever reason boom gone so it’s like double privacy comes with an HDMI cable that’s a bonus this is what I’m talking about dedicated remote volume all your smart TV controls dedicated buttons for Netflix Disney plus Prime video they do give you some cables to get up and running and the most interesting one is this one right here so this is a dual Thunderbolt cable which will interface with your MacBook Pro and the dock so when you look at the dock here and you see the laptop portion this dual cable slots in like that so you’re only having one cable to attach I love the one cable system to give you that bandwidth that throughput that you’re going to need to pump all those pixels okay so everything is plugged in it’s kind of messy like it’s just proof of concept make sure everything works I have a keyboard and mouse that have been connected and then we have our special cable with the Dual Thunderbolt connections to drive all of these monitors so the top monitor is HDMI into the ivank dock the others are using those 6K Thunderbolt ports so just let’s just see how everything reacts to being plugged in [Music] here allow accessory yes allow [Music] oh okay so we definitely have the cinema displays and then maybe this needs to be powered on and then I’m going to just jump into system settings and displays LG Smart UHD arrange and I’ll move that guy up there Behold a lot of pixels a a very a very very lot very lot of pixels most pixels I’ve ever sat in front of possibly 3 * 6K 1 * 4K wow to push this many pixels from a laptop is impressive it is a high-powered laptop but but it’s still impressive that laptop uses 96 WS of power you’re getting that full power delivery from the dock so single cable power and all of these pixels and it’s really like obviously we didn’t manage the cables yet but it’s really not that many when you look at it like this would be fairly easy to manage we have a single HDMI there’s two Thunderbolts here’s the specialty cable going out to the laptop and then power to the dock the dock really enhances the convenience of doing something like this can I have the laptop monitor or do I lose the other one when I open up the laptop oh you can have you you can have them all you can have them all so jeez that’s even more pixels these tops are your actual resolutions 616 by 3384 * 3 3840 by 2160 and then 3456 by 2234 plus plus plus plus yeah that’s happening whoa whoa the viewing angles on these xdr displays is great by the way like I’m just realizing I can sit here and even having these things on this angle they look great this is quite the cockpit like curved monitors are cool and all that but they are nowhere near the resolution that Mo’s going to put on the screen right now after he does the calculation all right so we move this setup a little bit and we’re getting it dialed in like you can see there’s a little bit of cable management going on which is kind of key when you have have this much Hardware our dock is doing the heavy lifting right now spitting out all of these pixels that’s pretty wild and our peripherals aren’t wired right now so we still have tons of potential IO that we could use but we just have a wireless keyboard and mouse for the time being this Mount that I purchased we just discovered an interesting thing when you are dialing in your fit for your variety of monitors you have this crank in the center of the two middle mounted displays that lets you slightly raise or lower each in order to create a flush multim monitor setup so in this case we just spin this guy One Direction or the other and it will travel either up or down and currently this is going up but I could technically bring this down or tilt it more tilt it more like this I mean I could do both tilt it and bring it down [Music] yeah I don’t see a need to have this laptop anywhere near me because I have so much screen real estate already I just walk up plug in my laptop step over here wake it up [Music] I actually have some updates for the xdr displays look at that so clean look at all my desk space H the scaling is different so they’re now all running the same scaled resolution see that so when you when I pull or drag something between the two it’s the exact same size even though obviously we have 6K and 4K we were trying to figure out like what the optimal kind of setup was would be like where you would put your YouTube where you would put your Photoshop where you would put your final cut if you would put social media anywhere I mean it’s versatile there’s a lot of different ways you could utilize this you have your YouTube up there your media up there you could be listening to music up there you know some people like to play like lowii just have it playing up there doing your work down here it’s not one extra thing that the that the PC or in this case the MacBook is doing this could easily be Final Cut Pro it could be photo shop if you were in Final Cut the other thing you could do is you could put your output monitor over here so you just always got like a full screen of what your edit is looking like look to take advantage of this dock you don’t need to run this extreme use case you could just have a bunch of peripherals a wired keyboard or a Wired Mouse that you prefer audio equipment that can remain connected to the dock and maybe only one monitor maybe two monitors instead and they don’t have to be xdr displays this Mount is actually pretty pretty affordable I think it was like 150 bucks the main important thing here is regardless of how you choose to configure it when you’re ready to go and take your work with you all you’ve got to do is just remove the one cable that’s it now I’m ready to go and part of the reason that people dread having the laptop as the desktop setup is the plugging and unplugging of all the things that are typically connected on a desktop this is the easiest version possible and because you have that dual Thunderbolt cable you’ve got the throughput that you need for highspeed storage and tremendous resolutions of video [Music]

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