Building the Ultimate MacBook Pro #Helpful Post

hey guys Zhou state and today we are

building the ultimate 13-inch MacBook

Pro and huge shout out to LastPass for

sponsoring this video so you might be

wondering why we're using the 30 inch

macbook as opposed to a 15 inch and

we're trying to build the ultimate

laptop but a lot of it actually comes

down to this so this is a line dock and

inside what we're finding here is not

only an additional battery but

additional storage additional ports

that's all meant for the 13-inch so this

guy started out as an IndieGoGo and it's

just starting to ship but inside what

we're going to find is something that

actually looks a lot like a MacBook so

the idea here is to give you a bunch of

the functionality that you would

normally expect on for example older Mac

books with you know more than 4 ports so

there's going to be a ton of ports that

are going to be added including USB see

we've got 2 SP 3.0 on this side SD card

reader as well as on the other side

we've got HDMI mini DisplayPort 1/3 USB

3 as well as one more USB type-c so it's

basically the same size the MacBook so

if I sort of stack it on top

I've got here's a little bit of a

sandwich actually how does this connect

oh wait Oh first thing I thought they

forgot to put anything else in the box I

think they're taking a subtle hint at

the lack of dongles needed with this

particular product there's also an

available USB see magnetic module so if

we open this guy up we're going to find

is well what looks like a little USB

adapter but the whole thing is going to

be magnetic now supposedly this is going

to support full USB see capability so

stuff like data transfer video and

everything like that but I've had some

questionable luck with these in the past

so maybe I'll try one of the ports on

the side oh ok maybe the back port just

doesn't work so immediately get charging

and we also have a 256 gig SSD ok so

there are different versions of the line

dock available say for example if you

don't want so much storage but the idea

here is that if you've got this sort of

giant jock thing that goes with the

MacBook you're going to be getting

battery extra ports SSD the whole sort

of package well this looks a little bit

goofy right now inside what we're

getting is not only that SSD which is

optional you can go all the way up to a

one terabyte SSD or not even opt for one

in the first place but on top of that

all of these line docks have 25,000

milliamp hour batteries inside so it's

going to be able to charge at a full 100

Watts more than

for any MacBook and in theory could

given you basically double the battery

life now the line doc is going to

essentially double the thickness of our

MacBook and as we all know thicker is

better when it comes to building the

ultimate stupid I mean ultimate MacBook

not stupid

I meant ultimate so that's where some

protection for a MacBook comes in one of

the only real issues I've noticed with

the line dog is that since it's not

actually connected to the MacBook

besides with a cable it actually doesn't

really matter what you actually do to it

just as long as you have it connected

via USB C so that's where this comes in

a very important keyboard protector that

also very helpfully reminds you of all

the wonderful keyboard shortcuts that I

totally don't know at all but of course

protection is incredibly important you

never know when a sudden gust of wind

could blow your mac book out of window

and you need to make sure it survives

well that's where this comes in this

giant case that supposedly helps so

really how it's supposed to go on it

just looks so weird oh I need to click

it until it did that noise now it looks

much better okay that looks a little

more like it if I pull it up hey there

we go we've got some real protection for

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course when it comes to building the

ultimate MacBook a single display is not

going to be enough so that's where the

LG 5k ultra-fine comes in

so they single Thunderbolt 3 cable we're

going to be able to not only get that

full 5k video signal but we're also

going to be getting three USB C ports on

the monitor and we're going to be

getting an 87 watt charge from the

monitor into the macbook which is

helpful especially when we have the

light dock which you can also charge the

macbook so we should be good on power

now this is starting to look a little

bit ridiculous however is by no means

ultimate just yet which is where this

comes in a laptop vertical dock for two

laptops so with this we can drop the

macbook in as well as the line dock at

the same time the next step we have a

keyboard so this is going to be the Das

Keyboard ultimate which not only is

going to be able to take advantage of

some of the USB ports on the line dock

but it's also going to give us a fully

mechanical keyboard that is meant to be

used on Mac we also have the Logitech MX

master 2's so this guy's going to be

using bluetooth and now we're getting a

little bit closer however even this is

still not going to be anywhere near

enough ports for the ultimate MacBook

which is where the Cal digit ts3 plus

comes in this is going to be a fundable

3 dock which is going to be giving us

extra functionality and well to be

totally honest even more ports that

we're probably not going to actually use

all right that's actually not going to

be too crazy so what we're getting with

this is none like a bunch more USB ports

we're also going to be getting a second

Thunderbolt 3 port so we can daisy chain

with the monitor but we're also going to

be getting some other stuff that even

the line dock doesn't include such as

Ethernet another SD card reader if we

want to do two at the same look I just

wanted to stock my figure to be cool

don't judge me I just thought it'd be

really ridiculous so we need to plug in

the Thunderbolt 3 cable from the

computer it's going to go into the dock

and then we're going to plug the

Thunderbolt 3 cable from the monitor

also into the dock and then actually we

can do is we can plug the line dock

into the USB type-c cable on the dock oh

hey wait okay hang on okay that looks

good so if I close the MacBook up we

should have everything on one display

there we go and then and set it right

here I have my mouse of my keyboard so

you guys might have caught a little

video I did recently trying to game on a

Mac and in doing so I bought this

external GPU from gigabyte which is

actually going to be really tiny and yet

does connect over Thunderbolt 3 so I get

a couple more cables going here so with

our final Thunderbolt 3 cable which will

be plugged directly into the MacBook

we're going to have a full Radeon rx 580

now when you've clicked on this video I

promised you the altar MacBook what I've

actually delivered is a really really

bad idea

and so it is time to fully test the

ultimate 13-inch MacBook Pro now they

get the ultimate performance because of

course this is the ultimate setup we

also have a secondary display this time

eight 1080p 144 Hertz panel which is

going to be plugged directly into the

GPU because you know of course the last

thing we want is some kind of

performance bottleneck and it all

technically works

nothing is crashed nothing has stopped

working yet so for tonight decided not

to work on us and instead of

reinstalling the entire game trying

again

next we have rocket League which I will

have you know it works completely

perfectly on the ultimate MacBook with

no issues at all basically I know we're

playing 1080p high and which shouldn't

be a really big surprise with that Rx

580 we have plenty of horsepower even

considering that we are running a

dual-core CPU and at the same time even

though it doesn't really matter we also

have a 5k monitor and like actually how

many ports do we have nine ten eleven

twelve USB ports three four five six

seven USB C ports one additional

Thunderbolt port plus two more that are

free on the MacBook to HDMI ports we

have a display port we have a mini

display port and then we also have three

more display ports on our GPU ethernet

optical audio headphone jack and we have

a twenty five thousand milliamp hour

battery and a 2 or 56 gig SSD and a full

rx 580 external GPU oh and I forgot to

mention there are also three extra USB C

ports on the back of the Thunderbolt

displaying for a great total of 10 so

hopefully you guys found build in the

Olson MacBook Pro to be very informative

very useful when you're with your own

macbook building projects what is it

just me who does this