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welcome to my unboxing and a Seuss's first projector in the north american market now they've been doing projectors for a while but this is you guessed it they're first in the North American market which means this is my first look at an asus projector so this is the p1 it is a portable LED DLP pocket projector which basically means it's got low power consumption it's got a good small form factor for traveling business presentations in particular are one of these sort of intended uses for this particular product I'm going to just sort of start opening it up and then we'll get a little bit further into the details that asus has on the outside of the box once I've got the accessories unpacked this particular one is a if not a retail not a retail sample so that means that it is was already opened before I got a chance to open it so let's have a closer look at the packaging itself to see what Asus figures is special about this guy so LED means up to 30,000 hours of lifetime it also means instant on and off so there's no waiting for cooldown times and warmup times HD resolution so that's not full HD but it's 1280 by 800 it's plenty for a PowerPoint or a spreadsheet Auto Keystone correction is gonna be handy because I'll show you guys all okay I'll show you guys after but it's got instant height adjustment which means that you instead of using a little screw on the bottom that you often use to adjust the angle of the projector just has a little flip out stand it is a short throw projector so at a distance of one meter so that is about the distance from here to the wall I can actually project a 40 inch image so I'm going to show you guys that afterwards as well ultra lightweight sure got it and I think that pretty much covers everything that we've got on the box itself 200 lumens brightness okay so that's pretty that's pretty possible from other products in this the product class now this is a cool thing as well check this out so the included adapter I don't know if you you've no notice or not but that is the same adapter that gets used on the majority of isus notebooks so you have to make sure that the particular Asus notebook is capable of providing enough power so in this case you want to make sure that it's at least a three point four two amp adapter but as long as it's capable of providing enough power the actual plug will be compatible so that's pretty cool right we've also got a VGA to appears to be no nothing iPhone adapter only one way to find out for sure huh No hold on a minute guys all I hardcore failed there guys this is an input on the projector and then these are inputs you've got composite as well as VGA input to the projector with this particular cable so the other things we see included here are your Quick Start Guide as well as your disk whatever you could possibly need that for as well as a carrying case also included in the package there you go it's got your zipper on one side throw the projector in there it's got your zipper on the other side to throw your cables and whatnot in there so that's pretty cool now let's have a look at the projector unit itself so it's very very small about the same dimensions as like as a CD disc case so that means here let's go ahead and I'll throw it in the case you guys can see that it's gonna look like once it goes in there so it's this big and then if you're not carrying around any accessories like maybe you have your laptop and you're traveling you got your laptop power adapter you make sure your laptops charged before the meeting you can just carry the one power adapter plug that into the projector once you get all set up and then run the laptop off battery so you won't even have to carry around anything extra you can just fold up the excess and it'll be about yay big very very nice it actually uses a magnesium alloy case which means that without any fans at all it would appear that's cool oh no wait we got one we got one but it should operate fairly cool and fairly quiet especially because it is using an LED light which means that there's less heat output from that source as well as the fact that it has a heat conductive casing so let's look at the physical aspects of it for a little bit here so we've got our focus okay we've got our navigation buttons on here you know what I actually have a cheat sheet for all of this so yeah there's your function keys let's see what they all do menu source and power button okay that's all there and then we've got on the bottom view you can see this is a sample not for sale we have a tripod socket as well as the supporting stand which I'll show you in a minute from the front we've got the projection lens no lens cover that's kind of an interesting thing I wonder if the retail unit comes with a lens cover probably wouldn't be a bad idea throw that back to a soos although if you're keeping it in the case which you probably should it's got a nice soft velvety sort of internal so as long as nobody walks up to your projector while you're using it and like goes like that with a quarter or whatever then you should be in pretty good shape and then from the back you got your Kensington lock as well as your power adapter on this side we've also got our input so that was for VGA and pomp is it so I can show you guys how that works you can see it's labeled with this side up there we go and aside from the fairly limited inputs I'd say this is more of a convenience product than anything else so no you're not going to be gaming on it you're not going to be you know watching HD movies in a home feeder this is a very more travel friendly practical type of product so you go ahead you flip out the stand like that because a lot of the time when you aim the projector right on the table you end up with an image that's cut off by the table itself or too low to really be useful to anybody so you go ahead you flip out the stand you put it up like that and then one meter away from the wall you should be able to project a 40 40 inch image so we're going to try that in a minute and oh yeah has Auto Keystone which means that it'll just adjust using a sensor in the projector unit itself for how much of an angle it's at and make sure that it is projecting a flat image at the wall so that's pretty cool give me a sec here guys we're gonna show you the short throw lens that's going on here so here we are testing out a Seuss's claim that a mere one meter away from the wall that's three feet for you Yanks one meter away from the wall which is what we are we can achieve a 40 inch that is however many centimeters that is because even here in Canada we do TVs in inches a 40 inch diagonal image we have 41 inches so we have met or beaten the specification however as are you kidding me no I'm not paying attention to you right now so sorry a little flustered now so as you can see the image is quite washed out although if you take a look at the lights that we have pointing at it that is fairly obvious why that would be so let's try killing one of the lights here you can see now we end up with a fairly usable image so even in a fairly lit presentation room we should be able to bring out some kind of document and okay apparently Firefox's not real happy sorry my netbooks pretty slow so it takes a while to load this is like a first generation netbook I only really use it when I go somewhere where I can't bring a real computer so google.ca so you can see what sort of text is going on the filing will keyboard table whatever the price was right at the time this was as cheap as a computer God so there we go so in a fairly lit environment this is what we can expect so even at our 40 inch size it looks pretty darn good however if you're able to dim the lights it looks significantly better and supposing you were using the p1 in a scenario where you actually can eliminate the lights all of a sudden you end up with a pretty darn bright image considering the form factor of this projector and the fact that even though we're not in Eco mode so you're not going to get the 30,000 hours of battery life you'll still get like well over 10,000 hours of your life so that's very very impressive for the kind of brightness for getting out of it in fact I mean moving further away from the wall I'd say with reasonable usability you can get a pretty darn huge image out of this thing it starts to get it starts to lose a little bit of the color here you can also see the Auto Keystone working as I tilt it up and down you see that see making the adjustments so that's just me angling the projector more or less and I see how it retains somewhat straight edges no matter what I do to it so I'm just gonna go ahead and turn the lights back on for a minute here and I think that pretty much wraps it up I mean there's the actually there's a couple of menu options that there's someone interesting so if you go in here the menu is actually very easy to navigate you've just got your navigation buttons and then your enter button so we'll go ahead and check out some of the splendid video options so you got standard black board white board dynamic mode dynamic mode doesn't seem to be that great the game mode looks pretty sharp scenery mode theater mode I wouldn't mind if they had a yellow wall mode because a lot of presentations are done on walls that are not 100% white so that would have been pretty nice to see included you can also adjust things like the image setting there you go so you can help nope that's not the right one where is it it's in setup maybe yeah setup so you can set the AHA the lamp are so high or low there you go so that's the difference between high and low actually I should let you see that with the with the lights more off here so low and high looks just like that and I think that pretty much wraps it up here guys press the power button again to shut off look at that instant off oh and hey if I wanted to turn it on again I never showed you guys the instant on functionality it turns on pretty much instantly it takes about I think a Seuss's spec is five seconds to warm up so there you go thank you for checking out my unboxing your first look at the p1 portable LED projector from Asus don't forget to subscribe - tech tips from boxing's reviews another