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Building the Portable PS4

2017-04-29
hey guys this is Austin you may have caught our building the ultimate ps4 and Xbox one videos and they use the word ultimate very lightly there however this time we're taking a slightly different approach today we're going to be building a portable ps4 so this is the games Vanguard case the idea here is that this is going to give you some portability with a console we're going to be taking it up a notch so inside you have a another box okay so this is the case then they claim their work so it's pretty much any console ps3 ps4 Xbox 360 Xbox one and the idea here is that not only is it a case that your console fits inside but also integrates the screen so now what are we getting a nineteen inch display even though it is only 720p but you also get the speakers as well as the power adapter to run the entire unit so this actually is reasonably portable so not only does have a built-in handle but you also have your integrated first of all we have the display itself it has lots and lots of wonderful warnings for example you need special packaging for the Xbox one and that you should not store your peripherals inside the Vanguard and cables need to be unplugged and if you don't listen to all these rules it might kill you well as you know you can do some damage to the screen let's go to the power adapter as well as a small HDMI cable includes the box which is helpful since that really only has to run a few inches there's also a couple of carrying cases here as well as a strap if you want to be super super cool next we have the ps4 slim there the main reason for going with this over the pro is to do with power efficiency since this needs a lot less power to run it's going to make things a lot simpler when we actually get this thing fully portable and since it's going to be smaller and lighter it fits in here easily and it's a 720p screen you don't really need a ps4 Pro anyway the only slight issue is that the ps4 slim isn't technically supported but I think it should fit what you need to do is get any two straps and then just tighten things down and I think that should work between the phone pattern of straps I don't think that's going anywhere and the cool thing is we actually still have access to all of our ports if you have our USB the puranas goes blu-ray and we can still get access to everything around back including power as well as HDMI so we have the games case on power of our ps4 and theory we should be up and gaming so turning on the sharpening just a little bit it looks like we're pretty much good to go that is actually not bad so there may be that the greatest built-in speakers in the world but for gaming I think this should be totally fine so you do notice that the screen is only 720p it's not great I think though for a portable set of it's something I could live with so not only is it matte you actually have pretty solid viewing angles and when something I actually do really appreciate is the idea that it's a pretty decent sized screen sure 19 inches doesn't sound huge but we're going to do this close-up especially with something that's going to be used in a portable situation it actually doesn't want that but of course this is just a simple game case by itself what we want to do is make this a fully portable set up that's what this comes in this is the anchor powerhouse essentially what it is is a giant giant power bank so what you can do is of course charge standard things like USB devices off this guy but it actually has a full outlet that can power something like a ps4 this guy is rocking a 120,000 milliamp hour battery now they put that in perspective anchor claims that's actually be able to run something like a mini fridge for like seven hours oh man it's like the size of a car battery this is giant Wow there's a really nice feeling handle - it feels dirty so not only do you have the input but you also have a 12-volt cigarette lighter four USB ports which can charge everything from a smart phone to a tablet with pretty decent speed as well as what we want which is the full outlets now the idea for something like this is sort of more than sit like a giant emergency battery so not only can you do stuff like charge your phone a ton of times off this guy is you can even charge something like a laptop but what we want to do is power our full ps4 portable set up purely off of this guy so visit everything we need to make our portable ps4 happen you have the games cage with the ps4 cables accessories controllers as well as our powerhouse so hopefully everything works one of the things that we're a little bit worried about what we're trying to get everything to set up here and the reason why we went with the ps4 slam is because of the power draw so even though this is one of the biggest batteries that you can get it still does have a 120 watt limit which should be fine for the ps4 slams the way we've got this set up is that the ps4 in the games case are running to a multi tops and this is just going to plug straight into our battery bank all right monitors up ps4 looks like it's ps4 ring controller up and and we're good all right this is it this is the whole setup you can look around there's no like hidden wires or anything literally it's just a games case with the monitor we've got all our cables nicely tucked around and we're pretty much up running with the ps4 the last up though is to get on the internet now of course some games are going to run just fine without it however to the magic of tethering okay so maybe not blazing speeds but the important part is we are actually fully up and running on our ps4 no no no no no you see what that was because it's so portable I uh I was in the park and I was lost by nature's beauty and stopped paying attention for a second you think look how beautiful it is looks very different game here there are certain moments when I'm making a video and I realize how ridiculous I must look right now with this in a park it's a beautiful day people are having fun playing baseball I'm uh I'm sitting in a park bench with ps4 on a giant battery bank there's a lot of language there Park this is so good I'm surprised at how could you look at this back it's a 720p screen and yeah you can see it's not the sharpest like there's definitely a little bit of downscaling going on but this is totally usable and the most important thing is the screen is bright enough and it's matte enough that even outside is totally usable so in about 10 minutes we lost 4 percent battery that's not bad at all you actually could legitimately use this for a pretty decently long gaming session so this is the portable ps4 set up do you guys want to build your own I will have links in the description I'm curious what do you think about this masterpiece let me know in the comments below and I will catch you guys in the next one
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