 Tom here from Orange Systems. We're going to talk about the Leapow USB-C or mini HDMI portable display Now this is not the same as the Azua display I reviewed and I've seen that in the comments come up a few times I thought it was kind of Probably not too much of a coincidence after reviewing one monitor that the other company that makes the competing product Will reach out to me and send me theirs So I thought hey why not since I have both of them take an opportunity to do some comparisons and see what the Differences between them and share that with you so you can make an informed decision But first if you'd like to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems calm If you'd like to hire short project There's a hires button right at the top if you want to support this channel in other ways There's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services We talk about on this channel including a link to our patreon if you like become a patreon supporter We also have a swag store where you can get shirts and other items that are for sale and that changes from time To time what's available and what's not so go ahead and check that out frequently And finally our forums if you'd like to have a more in-depth discussion about this video suggestions for new videos or just reach out Say hi and talk tech our forums are a great place for that. All right now back to the content now This is June of 2020 and this does have roughly the same specs in terms of what they say in their Description here over in Amazon mini HDMI type-c speaker built-in HDR support which we'll get to that later, but just I'm not gonna really demo it. It's just bad for both models They both have it to check the marketing box, but it's not really that great It just really bumps and oversaturates the colors But spec-wise seem to be the same both IPS panels and price-wise They're both in that same sub $200 as of right now in June 2020 same price range for both of them What are they actually like in terms of differences? Well one thing I found interesting was they have different locations of ports and That port over here is only for power on one side and these two ports mini HDMI and USB-C are can be used for display or power and display in the case of USB-C But if you plug in the USB-C to my laptop here, it only powers the monitor Second notice is they certainly are not based on the same firmware the firmware defaults to This rocker button doing volume and the firmware on this one over here Which obviously the on-screen display looks a lot different defaults to it doing the brightness now that matters because they both suffer from the same Annoying issue that once you unplug them the settings reset for brightness and you have to turn them up each time They both start at the lower brightness and if you then have to go in and adjust them up some settings do save I don't know why that's one of them that does not it's just an annoying feature that suffered on both of these screens The other difference is going to be this is obviously a lot thicker But still feel solid just like the Azua one does here, but the Azua one is a little bit thinner with having this Kind of indentation on the back for where the panel is and then I'm guessing the electronics and such are housed right there and this That slide haha, this does not have That same indentation that being said they're both held on by magnets But when you put this one on it's actually a little bit trickier to find out where it goes because it doesn't have like an Indentation to line it up it you can hear the magnets Pulling to it a little bit harder to define actually. I know I have it backwards there. So I got to spin it around But it makes it a little bit harder to define where it is and it won't line up this perfectly But that's not really a big deal on it picking here and just talking about that They're slightly different also the flip cover for either one of these is not compatible with the other because the locations of the magnets that hold It on and how tight they are to this back of the screen varied with both of them So not much of a change there, but a little bit different just FYI So it does mean they are clearly different products now the panel itself We're gonna get in that test in a second to show as best I can Please note you will notice that I'm trying to take a camera photo of screens So they're not gonna look as good as they do in person But at least you're gonna look the same and you'll see the same flaws and both when we get to that part of the test other than that the boxes Slightly different packaging but both came well packaged and have all the extra cables in there Do anything extra you do get with the leap power is a standard like USB 5 volt and a USB 5 to C Converter here so cable to power it so you got a power adapter in here They both think come with screen protectors I chose not to put the screen protector on for the same reason on both They have a nice matte display and with the matte display. I just don't want to you know add any extra gloss I think they're actually pretty reasonable in terms of The Non-reflective nature of it. I mean if I hold it right against I can find the studio light on this And I'll do it again with the a few less lights Lights dimmed a little bit, but in terms of the matte finish on there That's the same on both weight seems to be roughly the same on both nothing substantial Now the illusion though because the way the bottom of this on the bezel they both have fairly thin bezels this one's thinner So size-wise They are 15.6 but this is ever so slightly you can see the little amount that hangs over mostly That's just a difference in bezel between them and the illusion though is This bezel is the same on the bottom of both It's hard to tell and the reason why it's hard to tell Is because they add that little line on the leapow So when you're looking across here and when you get over to leapow one, they've got that little line Kind of gives you an impression. Maybe it's not but for height-wise They actually end up being the same because they have all the electronics house on the bottom So let's get to the monitor test because that's what you really came here for i'm assuming Well, once you know the general specs are about the same on them and they both have the same annoying It doesn't save the brightness problem. Uh, let's show what they look like I'm going to cut the lights off here and jump to that part of the video I have the monitor set up here side by side I'm going to say that the leapow versus the azua The azua one maybe has a very slightly richer color gamut That's a very subjective based on what I can see maybe you can see in the camera here But not anything overly significant and I don't have the proper testing tools for Giving you the exact color gamut and details of that that being said These are probably not tools you would buy in terms of if you were a professional color editor in photography or Video editing where you need perfect matching of color and color grading. I'm going to say they're good IPS displays But they're not going to be at that same professional level quality And for the price point, that's kind of what should be expected overall, but they do look pretty good They're both about the same amount of glare With the matte finish I chose not to put the screen protector which both did include in the box on there to keep the glare minimized The magnet on the back of this one holds up Well the magnet on this one holds up Well, and as I mentioned I almost think in same thing with either one of these That a little bit of glue to really hold that on there because you can easily when you're flipping these over the little covers They can fall off because they're just held on by magnets. So that's pretty much the same I do not understand why they are able to save some settings, but not others and it troubles both of these Every time turned on like I said you have to reset the brightness, but The azua one making the brightness the default option when you roll up Makes it a lot easier so that will adjust the brightness on this one and rolling up adjust the volume on The other one. So I don't really get why leap how does that? It would be nice if leap how had the first option being the brightness seen as I have to reset it These both have hdr and I'm not going to waste your time showing you with the pseudo ugly hdr They both have exactly the same menu options oddly hdr is saved between power cycles And just leave it off if you put it on it just oversaturates the colors and makes it look weird I don't see any good particular use case for it. They look the same when you turn hdr And I don't say one's better than the other diverse both bad I think it's one of those marketing terms and they suck it in as a menu where we just crank the saturation up And it doesn't look good. So my overall is both are good devices I have not done much long term other than having each of these I've been I've had this one a couple weeks since I did the last review And I was using it up until I've used this one when I got this one for about a week a week and a half ago I've been using this one at home just to see if I can see a difference from a deal You just standpoint both of them look perfectly fine. They're both good IPS displays that are easy on the eyes And for their price point, I think you're both a good deal I'll leave links where you can get these below so you can make your decision Uh, but yeah, they're really really close to being the same. 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