Mac Pro Portable Setup Project! v1.0 #Helpful Post

if I told you inside this backpack of a

MacPro keyboard mouse and a monitor a

year ago you might have called me crazy

but with the redesign of the 2013 Mac

Pro it is entirely possible and I

present to you the portable Mac Pro

project version 1.0 today's video is

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comm / TLD hey guys johnathan your TLD

hope you guys are doing well never since

the redesigned 2013 Mac Pro has

announced the small form factor and the

potential for portability was something

that really fascinated me I love the

idea especially because I'm on the go

quite a bit of taking the Mac Pro thrown

it in a bag or backpack hopefully in the

future they come out with specific Mac

Pro carrying cases and then taking that

with a Thunderbolt Drive hooking it up

to a monitor it could be whatever I

wanted to use and I would have my

personal setup with me all the time now

that got me thinking and got me looking

for a portable powered monitor and

there's a few options out there but most

of them are extremely low resolution but

I actually stumbled across the ACS MB

168 B+ which is a 15.6 inch 1920 by

1080p monitor so you got Full HD and the

video and power comes through a single

USB 3.0 cable now the core of the setup

for now is the case logic SLR C - 206

SLR camera and laptop backpack and I'm

actually own this exact one since I

started YouTube which is coming up on

four years later this year so it is

definitely with stood the test of time

like the name suggests it is designed to

hold an SLR or DSLR obviously and I

laptop up to 15 point 4 inches so over

the years of course I've used this to

carry my camera and my macbook pro boot

because the inside is quite adjustable I

wanted to see if it would fit the Mac

Pro as you can see it does now as you

can see it's not as snug as I would like

it to be but as the title suggests this

is setup version 1.0 so I'm going to be

looking to improve this and of course if

you guys have any ideas or suggestions

feel free to leave me a comment down

below now as far as the other gear in

this project I am NOT a fan at all of

the Magic Mouse from Apple so I am using

the Logitech performance MX if you like

the Magic Mouse and that'll work it'll

save you a USB port but I'm forever a

fan of this it's ergonomically

comfortable it works on glass as you can

see you don't need a mousepad for to

operate and the scroll wheel also move

side to side so not only do you get

vertical scrolling but you can get

horizontal scrolling as well so for

final cut and Logic Pro and things like

that it helps make editing easier now

normally for my keyboard I'm using the

logitech k 750 which is an absolute

killer keyboard solar-powered it's got a

keypad to the right but in this case

it's not so portable so for this setup I

opted to go for the Apple wireless

Bluetooth keyboard which as you can see

fit perfectly inside this backpack if

this is a little too expensive I will

post a couple cheaper and portable

Bluetooth keyboard options down below I

also have a list C rugged hooked up

which is a combo Thunderbolt and USB 3.0

Drive opted to go for the 256 gig

solid-state model which is extremely

fast it makes a perfect scratch disk and

companion for the new Mac Pro now the

mac pro of course does not have an SD

card reader which can be a little

annoying but I can see why they left it

off a lot of others are going to use

compact flash cards and things like that

so I added a Kingston USB 3.0 memory

card reader which covers SD micro sd and

of course compact flash and allows you

to transfer everything extremely quick

with the USB 3.0 connection so that's

pretty much the gist of the setup now as

far as how everything actually performs

and operates the monitor as far as the

quality goes it looks fantastic but the

performance leaves a little bit to be

desired it shows up in System

Preferences with a 60 Hertz refresh rate

but I'm guessing because the latency of

the USB connection it leaves a little

bit of lag on the mouse cursor now it's

not unusable by any means like it

totally uses for a portable setup but I

didn't want to let anybody know who was

interested in the setup that there was a

little bit of noticeable lag now before

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down

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I use to make these videos again this is

Jonathan with TLD and I'll see you guys

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