Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Give your Mac a touch screen! – espresso 17 Pro”.
Today, we’ve got something interesting, espresso sponsored this video, so we could take a look at the new espresso 17 Pro and this thing supposedly does it all it’s portable, it’s a touchcreen and, most importantly to me, it’s 4K at just 17.3 in meaning you’re going to get A whopping, 259 PPI, absolutely wild pixel density, inspired by creatives, fine-tuned for professionals designed for people like you like me. Ah, oh it’s huge wow. You know you hear 17.3 in and you don’t think it’s that big until you’re like holding it in your hand. This is definitely like a giant tablet. They’Ve also included this little handy dandy cloth, which is great cuz. It’S already got a bunch of fingerprints on it. What else do we get in the Box, though? That’S what I want to know.
Let’S get this to the side. This is a you know: it’s a nice like double layer, cardboard too corrugated, so this is going to be pretty well packed, even though it’s just a small box uh. I also love the purple. I’M just a sucker for like purple.
Blue orange uh comes with a handy, dandy, little purple cable as well, USB C to C not super long. This is probably like a 3ft cable. Anything a little like 5T. Even would be nice just so.
You’Ve got that little bit of extra length there for plugging it. In what else do we got? What’S in the box, see more create more, be more anywhere cuz, it’s portable drawn on espresso, so they did did this artwork on the espresso, which is really cool. I love it when people actually use their own products, um that looks like it’s. Basically, everything you get in the Box, just a cable and a cleaning cloth, but they’ve included a bunch of other stuff for us.
Because not only can you buy this by itself, but you can buy it in a bundle or you can buy these products separately. They’Ve got their espresso pen, Unleash Your creativity and the power of your espresso display unleash it. I say I’m going to unleash this pen right now. I tell you what there we go. Oh that made it such a satisfying. That’S great! I don’t use a lot of pens or stylus, so I not you know going to be the best in terms of uh telling you how good this pen is, but we’re going to have a special guest later come down and help me out.
Who does use this stuff all the time? It’S got a button, it’s got not another button and a little USBC charger right. At the end, there key features sketch draw and left rightclick transition through a range of creative applications like sketch and Adobe CC. Apps navigate pan and create through whiteboard collaboration tools like Meo, figma and concept board. They’Ve also got this espresso display, stand and like it’s a tiny box, but this thing is actually really heavy.
It’S got to be at least a pound or two. I love how small this packs up because, like it’s a really small display, so you don’t want whatever stand you’re going to be bringing if you’re going to move any of this stuff anywhere uh, you don’t want the stand to be huge and chunky, so this is Actually, really refreshing: if someone who’s had to move around a lot of monitors on big giant stands, this is wild. I wish everything could just pack down into this tiny little package here, it’s very strong. Oh, I love the purple accents again. That’S great! It’S got a neat little trick for kickstand mode, so that, instead of you know, oh well here, let’s try to put this on. Is it just magnetic o? That’S real nice that actually worked really well, and you know what it’s holding it.
You’Ve definitely got to make some adjustments beforehand. It’S okay, like at the certain angle, then like this is just going to tip over from a slight push. I would love to see a bit more support to make it so that it doesn’t just tip over. If I want to put it at kind of a weird angle and then if you do want to use it more for drawing at like a reasonable angle, you just kind of pop it down here, put it on the kickstand that goes into place there and then Pop it on now you’re get to go where’ the pen go. Oh, I wanted to do the that’s such a good, sound. Look at that, I’m drawing already I’m so good at drawing uh.
I’M not, but you know I, oh that’s a it’s a good satisfying click. I, like the pen they’ve, also got so that you can keep your screen nice and safe. A big screen protector guide, stickers, lift stickers, they’ve got it all so you’re not going to screw this up. It doesn’t feel like paper. Oh, I guess it’s still got a film on it all right sure, like uh we’re not going to throw the screen protector on. But one thing to note is that it supposedly feels like paper. Okay, I I can’t say it feels like paper without at least peeling a little bit off and trying to they sent us two. So I can open one okay, I don’t know if I go so far as to say it feels like paper but like it’s definitely a different kind of it’s not like a slippery plastic like the out like the outer film is.
We’Ve also got their new K1 17. It’S more of a screen cover than a case, but you know it’ll definitely keep things a little extra protected when you slide this thing into your bag actually fits in the laptop sleeve like a glove LTT store.com. That’S actually really good 17 in doesn’t seem like a lot until you remember that, like a lot of work, laptops are more like 14 in 13, in 15, in 16, in maybe even 17 in it is pretty thin, like you saw it in the backpack no problem, But how heavy is it actually, it’s only 2.4 lb, that’s not too bad, and then what about this stand? This is it’s actually probably pretty close.
3 lb. No, it’s only two wow! It’S lighter, probably just cuz, it’s so like, dense and compact. It feels heavier in your hand, cuz it’s not like spread out so much, but uh.
That’S only like 4 lbs of travel weight a little over, that’s not bad. As for the iio and what you can connect to it. We’Ve got two USBC ports right here, which is great, always love to see plenty of USBC, and that’s absolutely it. We’Ve just got what looked to be a couple of little vents up here for I’m guessing thermals.
Otherwise I actually like how Sleek it is. There’S very little branding, it just says: espresso in the bottom uh right corner right here and otherwise, just black very Sleek. Let’S see how good the screen is, though, let’s turn this thing on it just turned on Apple device detected. It no problem. Look at that wow! You know this thing seems pretty cool, but one thing: that’s driving me nuts, is I absolutely hate. Trackpads and MacBooks. Don’T have a touchscreen. This thing is a touchscreen, so let me actually use it. Oh, my god. It works D. I mean it looks pretty good. It’S not HDR, but it’s got. 98 % of DCI P3 cover they also rated at 450 nits and we measured 475 roughly. So you get a little bit more bank for your buck.
It’S got four picture modes, work create game and night and we found work to be the best. The most color accurate, it’s okay, not crazy, outstanding, but good enough for most creators, at least in my opinion. If you want some more in-depth results, then we’ll have them on screen here: there’s color accuracy and color gamut testing that we did. It’S not bad.
The only kind of drawback for going portable, like this, this and not being OLED, is that you’re not going to get any dimming zones, and so this is just about a th000 to1 contrast ratio, which is very typical of ips. It still looks pretty good, though, as much as I love HDR, SDR can still look decent. One thing to note is that it doesn’t come with its own color management software. Out of the box.
We had to create our own ICC profile, but once we did, it actually drastically improved our color accuracy and we’re going to have that ICC profile linked below. So if you do buy it, you know put it on yourself see if it helps things. One thing to note is that this actually does have speakers on it, which is always a plus, at least in my opinion, they’re, not the loudest and there’s really no base. You can hear it for yourself, but it’s not awful, and I think that speakers are better than no speakers personally check this out.
You can just magnet snap the pen to the top, which is always really nice. Uh they’ve got two key pieces of software flow and jot flow was actually really cool. It’S got a bunch of Windows, snapping stuff so like we can just move that around to wherever we want that’s great and then uh jot. Is this software here? It’S their drawing stuff that you can use to Just note down those are squiggles.
You know, I’m a big artist, it’s actually pretty easy to use like I’m at a really bad angle. Right now, you know don’t take this as a good example of how easy it is to use this thing. It’S actually pretty easy, just you know, put it in front of you, like an actual display that you’re going to use the other cool thing is that uh flow, the magnetic snapping stuff, is actually just an app that you can download. So if you get any other say you don’t want this monitor for whatever reason um, but you have something else you can get their software and install it.
So you can keep that snapping. Uh feature that you so sorely desired. Another pretty cool feature about the pen and jot is that you can use the back of it to take these little screenshots here. Screenshot Bell, look put it right into jot and then we’ll just uh put a big like X.
On his forehead, I mean that’s a terrible example, but like Circle, his head, I’m not an artist at all um. So that’s what he’s getting he’s getting stickman on top of himself, but when it comes to using software like this, I’m really not an apple daily driver and I’m not a graphic designer, and I don’t use pens or anything like that. So let’s get someone who actually does know this stuff a bit better to come and take a look at it. So I brought Mar our graphic designer who does all of our great thumbnails and the pictures for our merch photos y like this one of Riley and she actually uses Apple products and pens and drawing tablets and stuff. So please make Riley even more beautiful okay than he already is. Let’S try Photoshop, what’s the size difference between This and like an iPad or whatever you’re normally drawing on? Oh, this is way bigger than an than an iPad yeah. Would you prefer that bigger screen? Yes, okay, it’s probably not going to be perfect, but it’ll be close enough. Okay, that’s close enough! Yeah just disappears: wow; okay, let’s try it again. Okay, the paper kind of feeling feels better feels better because it’s not very slippery now yeah. So that’s good as well.
If I apply more pressure, it’s like the line sticker, the line sticker. So that’s good. It’S like you’re, actually using a marker or a paintbrush mhm. But it’s not again when I try to draw something with like Precision, is not what 100 % precise so uh.
That’S the thing that I’m like, I wish it was a little better. I mean the iPad, it’s just like a big phone, let’s say yeah, so it’s not, and here we have just an extension of this computer yeah. If I have this too, it will be better if I just have like the iPad, which is just another product which I don’t even need, because I already have a computer again like right so with this. Instead, you could just get a whole new monitor. That’S portable, exactly huge cuz, it’s like almost it’s 17 in and then it does have touch which Apple doesn’t natively, have on IMAX or Mac Pro MacBook Pro and then for anyone who’s, not necessarily trying to draw final artwork for something. That’S a bit more demanding. You know I could use this thing to take notes, no problem. He looks like he’s having even more fun, though in his like weird plant, almost underwater kind of Vibes, those looks like seaweeds and then yeah the blues. I don’t I’m kind of I I want to try. Sorry, I keep pinching yeah pinching like if I had an iPad yeah.
Maybe it’s just a matter of like getting used to it yeah. It comes with a stand bundled for $ 8.99 normally, but right now it’s on sale for only $ 7.99 800 bucks plus, if you want an even bigger discount, we’re going to have a link down below, and you can use code circuit 10 to get 10 % Off your purchase, so there you have it the espresso 17 Pro portable display with jot and flow, whether you’re a creative who wants an extra high PPI touchscreen for drawing and taking notes. Someone looking to add a second monitor to their laptop for dual displays. During virtual meetings, or you just need a quality portable screen and stand that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, it’s definitely worth checking out, and I almost forgot about how easy it is to put it into portrait mode, got to love. Auto rotation think that I think that it’s taken some practice, but these lines do look better already uh compared to what it started with yeah, for example, when I did like this like lines over here, because they were a little bit more straight kind of thing. It helps me like having that straight line there, so it looks smooth right different from, for example, the leaves here right, um right so more natural things might be a little harder, but if you’re trying to do like hard Edge patterns and stuff like that, it actually Works pretty well exactly yeah cool yeah, I guess Riley looks better now he does. He should get these patterns on that shirt that look great. The dad hat should come with this yellow squiggle, I’m very uh in favor of that and um. You know if you want to watch other videos, there’s a bunch of them. I don’t know what video should I th do subscribe. Yeah, that’s good! Okay, we’re done then sure .