Oh
mark what the hell is this thing this is the Kensington SD 7000 it is a surface
pro docking station now you are probably familiar with the surface - do you
remember the glorious days when we actually had one in the office it was
fancy it was four and a half K display it was 26 and a half inches 28 inches
actually the problem is is that it costs 4000 and the surface studio - which we
haven't officially seen yet come on Microsoft is about $3,500 so not
something that we have lying around but we do have several surface pro tablets
and this supposedly turns this into a surface studio like machine and that's
what we're gonna try to find out today so we're gonna actually unbox this nice
taking up some of the labels to save us a little time but I actually have never
opened this sucker before so let's flip this around here and also it has it has
ports and everything it does in fact you know this little screen one of the
things that we're gonna talk about is the price of this was a sort of an
eye-popping at $300 sorry $399 yeah I know it's incredibly high Wow but a if
you're talking about service studio prices you know we're talking that
neighborhood and - we're also talking and this looks like a surface dock and a
surface dock actually runs you about $200 just flat huh so you know we're
talking surface Hardware things are expensive so the combination of a dock
plus a stands sort of has that zero gravity hinge thing hopefully makes a
little bit more worthwhile they really check it in there how heavy is it uh it
is pretty substantially heavy I don't have a weight on this but I'd say it's
some like neighborhood of like four pounds so it is pretty decent nice
oh you know it looks like it's the other side there we go and then styrofoam
action you know protect it keep it nice and save their instruction manual
hopefully yep alright so take it off okay that I believe is just plain old
plastic
unfortunately the tablets don't really go war well they have the one sort of
Platinum to black cobalt or burgundy so that there's only one option of color
yeah there's only one option of this yeah with this five so if you have sort
of a color tablet you're gonna have alright so so we can see you know this
has the surface Studios type ports this is unfortunately at the back it would be
nice if this was actually the front but I don't believe it is
oh and of course at Kensington lock yeah exactly the Kenzi life so we've got USB
C which is something we don't actually have the Microsoft dock 4 USB ports
which I believe are 3.1 the doc has 3.0 you've got Gigabit Ethernet a full-size
DisplayPort which is interesting because most of the docks in most of the surface
devices use a mini DP port to HDMI but you actually have a straight HDMI cable
here as well as power well is this a provided or is this the
actual surface
yeah should be this cable box right here we have several things here so I don't
think I don't think this is actually necessary to drive a docket so I believe
is this probably power that goes straight into your surface pro table huh
so let's see that is the probably so for the pin it well there is a pen holder
there is actually something that clips in and my guess is that you slide a
tablet here in it that's right uh kind of dot that looks like the PowerPoint so
let's go ahead and first off take off the and what model do you have here this
is the surface pro six and honestly this is actually rated for the surface pro
fifth gen and the surface pro for the fifth gen is a 20-17 model so this is
we're testing the limits with the surface pro six exactly it's physically
the same as these previous two generations so let's go ahead be funny
if it was just off just a little bit exactly that would be let's go ahead and
snap it out and snap it in Wow and there so basically dang yeah it looks nice
that's pretty cool yes sort of slides all the way up and
down does it feel as smooth as the actual surface not quite no but it's a
pretty good approximation you can see honestly that it doesn't go straight up
with a vertical either so that's this verticals and gigas is very close that
gets ya so you're getting a little bit of angle here I didn't feel was there
like rubber behind like that really feel like it's gonna scratch it no this is
all pretty much glass the key here so I think we're all set there is actually
supposedly a magnetic it does look it looks nice you know we can flip it over
to let's see if we can ahead over here see it should take but yeah you can
imagine basically using this as an easel to ink upon it doesn't fold back as flat
as it does with the kickstand but it pulls back
pretty flat enough and it's got a nice pretty solid you can really lean into
this and bend it back I would say probably the only drawback that I can
see that's really obvious is the fact that of course you can't use the
keyboard with it you'd have to use a Bluetooth keyboard or just use this as a
secondary display which is perfectly fine but again it's a limitation that
you know you don't see with an ordinary tablet so Wow
so you know certainly all the ports are still available
you've got the USB port over here as well as the mini display for it
accessible over here everything slides right in okay probably just then you got
the headphones over here - yeah that's right exactly yeah so that is pretty
much basically how the Kensington st 7000 works again pretty pricey at 399
will try to give us a little bit more of a full-fledged review in the next coming
days but for right now looks like if you're interested in sort of a super
studio like accessory for the surface pro tablet you've got it cool that's
awesome the next Martin absolutely