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ASUS Crosslink File & Drive Sharing USB Cable Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2009-12-30
so today I'm gonna be having a quick look at a new product from masseuse it's kind of like a random product I don't know where this came out of total left-field here but it's called the assist cross link and I haven't tried it yet so I don't know exactly how it works but supposedly this is a way to easily share Internet and optical drive functionalities between two computers you can instantly sync and transfer data between two PC's it is USB 2.0 so I'm assuming the transfer rate is going to be 480 megabit per second which is USB 2.0 speed now here is a quick overview of what you're able to do so it is a data link remote share folder link outlook link and flash share so this is a two gig flash drive as far as I can tell and then the other piece is a USB a two mini connector so okay they've got system requirements are pretty much anything running XP okay so that's that's pretty straightforward and then they show you okay data link optical drive share so they show you you you've used the cross leg functions over the week view blah blah blah you connect two computers with okay let's just open it up and have a look at this thing because it's wow that just came right off it's a very cryptic product because to me it's always seemed obvious that there should be some way to just take a couple computers and just kind of plug them together and just transfer data over and it comes with absolutely no user guide whatsoever so I guess all we're gonna be able to do here is have a quick look at the cross link product and then I'll have to post my thoughts on the annotations in the video so if you watch this before I have a chance to do it then I apologize for not having as much detail as I like but okay so that's that's kind of neat so you can cut it you can do this with it and I'm not sure what the point of that is but there you can hide via the USB connector if you want and then you can see that this is just a USB mini connector here plugs in there and then that's just a standard cable so as long as you have this piece you should be able to transfer data from one computer to another effortlessly including sharing optical drives which is really cool because personally I don't have really have a reason to have an optical drive in my computer anymore I rarely use it so it'd be kind of handy to be able to just kind of like plug one in whenever and use my laptop as an optical drive whenever I need to thank you for checking out my unboxing of the azuz cross-linked
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