Greetings from Maryland, where I’m currently visiting family and using one of the best impulse buys I’ve made in recent memory. I’m taking about those cheap portable monitors that go on sale for about $50 on Amazon, available under a variety of unrecognizable brand names .

The one I got is made by BIGASUO (a name I can’t stop saying), but you can find seemingly identical models from the likes of FANGOR and MNN . They all serve the same basic purpose as a travel-friendly way to add an extra screen to your laptop, and they all have the same basic features:

15.6-inch 1080p display

USB-C or Mini HDMI input

Built-in speakers

Audio jack for headphones or external speakers

A detachable folio stand

Some variants, such as this one by the unfortunately named Dopesplay , have actual

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