Review on L LIMINK S19 Portable Kickstand Compatible 14" Ultrawide LCD IPS Screen, 60Hz, No Driver Required, Foldable 235°+180° by Nathan Copenhaver

First, it works. So if money and quality aren't an issue and you just want a working three monitor setup, stop reading and hit buy. However, if you want to know a little more about it before making your decision with your $599 doo (the price it was at the time I got it), then read on. There are some design issues with this product that might make you think twice. FIRST IMPRESSION: - The box is pretty standard; nothing special. It comes with a nice thick holdall although I doubt I'll be traveling with it much. It also comes with the device itself, which consists of two monitors and an accordion device that plugs into your laptop's monitor. Each monitor is provided by the device. It also comes with multiple cables so you can use a decent-sized manual. The first impression is over, here are the advantages:>>Easy installation. Once out of the box, simply unfold the device, place it on the monitor and slide it back in to "snap" it onto the monitor. >> Decent quality screens. 72% NTSC which is 99% sRGB and they are HDR. I have confirmed that HDR works. >> Plenty of cables are included for a variety of configurations, including USB-C/Thunderbolt and HDMI. CONS: >> Very weak. Too thin to hold such expensive gear. The mount is held in place at the bottom by a small flange that's probably less than 1/4 inch wide and maybe a few millimeters thick (or thin, should I say?). The monitors have slipped off my laptop a few times while I was using it and I know it's only a matter of time before they fall off completely. Check out my attached photos so you can see how small the part at the bottom is that holds this in place. What confuses me is that the top is much thicker, but it's enough for the bottom to move a little and the monitors to fall off. I'm not sure why they didn't make a thicker flange at the bottom. >> Bad design. Besides the lack of support for the bottom of the monitors, for some reason there is a gap of about an inch on the right side - between the laptop monitor and the attached monitor. You can never really center these monitors, and if you have perfectionist tendencies (or just like balancing things) this will drive you crazy. >> Terrible functionality. This is swindle. They placed the menu button at the bottom and the brightness controls at the top for the left monitor, but did the complete opposite for the right monitor: the menu at the bottom; Brightness is high. I'll never understand why such a decision was made, but that's not the worst of it. The worst part? The buttons do nothing. My brightness gets stuck at 80%. I was able to install it the first time I used it, but it hasn't moved at all since. Lowering or raising the brightness level now doesn't do anything: it just stays at 80%. Oh, and there's no way to opt out of a menu item. You have to wait about 10 seconds for the time to run out. You may be wondering: Why bother with menu options at all? Well, it comes in at just 80% brightness, which isn't very bright. Also, adjusting the brightness in Windows 10 doesn't change the level on the side monitors, only on your default monitor. >> It's a spaghetti mess even if you have a dual Thunderbolt. The laptop I'm using it with (Gigabyte Aorus 15G-KB) has a full-size HDMI port, Thunderbolt 3, and even a mini DP (Display Port) port. You would think I was in good shape, but not that good. I was able to connect it, but it's kind of a mess. Thunderbolt 3 only powers one of the monitors, while mini-DP isn't natively supported and HDMI requires additional power from one of your laptop's USB ports, so I connected three cables to just the monitors and lost use of the USB port have. If you don't have Thunderbolt, you have to use two USB ports in addition to USB-C or HDMI. And even if you have two Thunderbolt ports, each monitor still requires a cable and not power for both like many competitors (in the same price range) do. >> The company hasn't listed the brightness (nits) of this device, which usually means it's not great. I haven't measured it myself, but I'm guessing it's less than 250 nits. >> No Speakers: If you need sound from these monitors, you're out of luck. GENERAL: While this triple setup works for LIMINK portable monitors, there are some definite design and connectivity issues that make it hard for me to justify the price they're charging for it ($599 when I got it) . It doesn't offer any additional power, so you'll need to power both monitors via USB, and the entire unit is made from low-quality plastic that looks like it's very easy to break. To put this in perspective. 15.7-inch HDR FHD monitors are around $150 each, some are cheaper, and cables are likely around $50. That's about $350 for hardware. Are you telling me that cheap piece of plastic holding everything together is $250? a million years.