ZSCMALLS Portable Monitor, 15.6" 1080P Laptop Extended Monitor, 1000:1 100% sRGB USB-C HDMI Portable Monitor for Laptop HDR Travel Monitor with Speakers & Smart for Laptop PS5/4 Xbox Switch

I use a very small laptop is a 10 inch screen. This thing is a game changer. I have been needing a 2nd screen. This thing does not disappoint. The color and sharpness are excellent. It is light weight and not much bigger than my portfolio. My laptop has no trouble powering it without another power source. It does not over heat and provides a clear viewing experience. It was super easy to use with just a plug and play. The speakers I would rate a 6/10. I do not need them but by laptop speakers are more superior. I wanted this model for the case that it comes with and the adjustable angles. I did not want a screen that had a kick stand build in. I am beyond glad I purchased this for my needs and at an amazing price.

I had one of these for awhile and I dropped a hard drive on it and broke the LCD screen. I then ordered a new one and after a few months it developed a black spot at the bottom of the screen. I reached out to the support email address on the sticker because it is still under a warranty but no one responds. Since support does not respond I would get on from reliable company.5/11/2025 Update:After I posted the bad 2 Star review above, support reach out to me and gave me two options (Full Refund or Replacement). I chose replacement and they shipped me a new one. It took five days from the time they said it shipped to the day it was delivered. Support apologized and said they were behind due to the May Day holiday in China. Other than the issue stated above the monitor works great and I use it frequently. I increased the star rating from 2 to 5.

For the price, this thing is unbeatable. Good physical design, fantastic picture quality for the price, a lot of options (including HDR), and legit portability. It's particularly good if you plan on using it with a Nintendo Switch. Overall, it checks almost all the right boxes, but with a few notable caveats.The picture quality is surprisingly good. Once properly adjusted, the monitor is bright with good contrast, and doesn't look washed out. It also has a surprisingly broad viewing angle It's not going to win any awards, but it easily beats many full-sized monitors in the same price range.The HDR is surprisingly decent: it's pretty hard to get good HDR on ANY monitors in this price range, but this one somehow pulls it off. Again, it's not going to win any awards, but the fact that it has it at all is pretty cool. If the picture quality doesn't immediately meet your expectations, there are plenty of options tweak to your hearts content. However, those options are where its biggest problems lie, which I'll get into shortly.In terms of design, the portfolio-style cover/stand is a handsome dark granite grey with contrasting stitching, which looks great. However, unlike most portable monitors, it lacks any sort of magnet, clip, or elastic band to keep the portfolio closed when not in use. Not a deal-breaker, but noticeable if this isn't your first portable monitor. That said, the monitor and portfolio are very thin, which makes it easy to slip this into a small backpack, or anywhere else a thin 15.6" laptop would fit.The monitor can powered with its included power cable or via USB, which means it can be powered by your laptop, game console, or Nintendo Switch dock. It can display video through both HDMI or USB-C sources. For Switch users, you can plug the monitor directly into the USB-C port on the bottom of the console to simultaneously display video and charge the Switch, which is a nice perk (you'll still need a power source for the monitor itself, obviously). In terms of being a portable monitor, it does everything it's supposed to, and thensome.The back panel of the monitor itself is a cool brushed metal, while the rest of the monitor is cased in the usual plastic. The built-in speakers are decent for what they are; not very loud and obviously lacks anything but treble, but relatively clear and not as tinny as most portable monitor speakers.Unfortunately, this is where its first problem shows up: there's no 3.5mm RCA output. Most monitor makers are aware that their built-in speakers are budget-bin quality and used as a last resort, so they give you a 3.5mm jack to output to speakers with more oomph, but this monitor lacks that. For Switch and PC users, this might not be a problem, but for PS4 users, this is something to note, as the PS4 console only outputs audio through either HDMI or Optical SPDIF (its even refuses to connect to Bluetooth speakers). If you were planning to use an analog 2.1 speaker set with this, you'll need to plug it into your controller, which is awkward. Not a deal-breaker for most people, but definitely a problem for me. Considering that cheaper portable monitors have 3.5mm audio jacks, this omission is odd.Finally, we reach the big problem that'll affect nearly everyone: the menu interface. This is possibly the worst I've used. The menu controls boil down to just three buttons: a Menu button that doubles as an "enter" button, a Left button, and a Right button that doubles as an "exit" button. The first problem: the Left and Right buttons are REVERSED. This means if you want to go left, you press the Right button; to go right, you press the Left button. Considering that all menus and adjustments are arranged horizontally, this makes menu navigation and adjustment more confusing than it needs to be.Second, to back out from menus, you long-press the Right button, which becomes problematic when adjusting settings. You can hold down the Left button to quickly adjust settings in that direction, but holding down the Right button will kick you out of the menu and CANCEL your adjustments, forcing you to start over. Imagine trying to adjust the volume on your TV. Here, you're capable of increasing the volume very quickly by holding the up button, but to lower the volume, you can only tap the down button repeatedly, and if you accidentally hold it too long, it'll kick you out of the Volume menu and then RESET the volume. Now imagine having to do that for dozens of menus and submenus. Once again, it's needlessly wonky.One last problem is the coloring of the menu options. In cases where you only have two options, the options are identified with contrasting colors, but which color is "on" and which is "off?" It's not immediately apparent. You'd have to find another menu that has multiple options to figure out what you should be looking for, which isn't fun when your lefts and rights are reversed and accidentally holding a button kicks you out of the menus entirely.All that said, you'd (ideally) only really need to adjust the settings once, and the lack of a 3.5mm RCA jack isn't going to keep most people up at night, so those problems are somewhat superfluous in comparison to its positives. For a compact, well-built portable monitor with excellent picture quality and solid synergy with laptops and Nintendo Switches, this is hard to top.

I use this monitor for school because it’s portability, weight, and convenience. I am able to plug in the usb c into my laptop and dual screen, the quality is matched to other higher end laptops. The picture quality is even better than my monitor screen, although u didn’t purchase the touch screen version would have been another convenience being that my laptop has touch screen. Overall, worth the price for the quality and ease of use!