The Testing of Office Essentials: A Review of Amazon Basics Products

As I sat at my desk, surrounded by the familiar hum of office equipment, I couldn't help but think about the essential tools that make our workdays possible. In this article, I'll be sharing my thoughts on a range of Amazon Basics products that are designed to streamline our workflow and improve our productivity.

First up, we have the office footrest. Now, at first glance, it may seem like a simple item, but trust me when I say that it's made all the difference for me. The comfort level is spot on, with just the right amount of grip to keep my feet from sliding around. But what really sets it apart is its swiveling mechanism - or lack thereof. While I appreciate the design, I found myself wishing it was more responsive and less prone to wobbling around.

Next, we have the stapler. Ah, the humble stapler - a staple (pun intended) of any office desk. And while this Amazon Basics model delivers in terms of value for money, I couldn't help but feel a pang of disappointment. The shoulder buttons are loud and obtrusive, making it a bit of a nuisance to use. But, I suppose that's a small price to pay when you consider the price point - 21 bucks is a steal.

Moving on, we have the display port cable. Now, this one is a real winner in my book. The fact that it doesn't require locking makes it a breeze to use, and it's clear that Amazon Basics has put thought into its design. But what really sets it apart is the way it enhances the overall look of your workspace. Those cable management sleeves are like a breath of fresh air - they add a touch of professionalism to an otherwise chaotic desk.

Of course, no office essentials list would be complete without mentioning the monitor stand. And while I didn't exactly jump for joy at the prospect of this particular product, I can see how it could be useful for those who need to convert their vase into a makeshift monitor or replace a broken stand. It's not my cup of tea, but hey, if you're in the market for something like that, it's worth considering.

Now, we have the gaming mouse. Ah, the gaming mouse - a staple (sorry) of any serious gamer's arsenal. But let me tell you, this one is more geared towards those who just want to enjoy some light gaming on the side. The grip on the side is comfortable and easy to lift off, but I found it a bit too heavy for my liking.

Moving right along, we have the keyboard. Oh boy, where do I even start? This was a major letdown for me - I mean, 20 bucks for a keyboard that's just going to scuff up my arm over time? It's like Amazon Basics took every cliche about cheap keyboards and mashed them all together into one... well, mediocre product. But hey, your mileage may vary.

Of course, we can't forget about the ethernet cable. Now, this one is a real shame - it's clear that Amazon Basics cut corners when designing this particular product. It's flimsy, unreliable, and just overall a bad choice for anyone who needs a reliable connection.

Last but certainly not least, we have the hard drive dock and keyboard combo set. Now, I'll be honest with you - I was excited to try out these products, but they failed to impress. The hard drive dock is basically useless, and the keyboard... well, let's just say it didn't exactly live up to my expectations.

As for any takeaways from this experience, I'd have to say that none of these products really blew me away. But, as with anything in life, some things are good enough - they don't necessarily need to be perfect. And hey, at least Amazon Basics is trying to innovate and make office essentials more affordable.

That's all for now, folks! If you liked this article, be sure to like, subscribe, and check out our community forum (link in the description below). And if you're looking to upgrade your workspace with some of these products, I've included a link to get started in the description. Thanks for watching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso here's your problem on the one hand you're a gamer and you've got your gaming rig and your gaming monitor and you've got some important gaming to do and on the other hand you're a total basic and you own that so today is the basic gaming setup where we will be creating the best gaming desktop we can order with only products from amazon basics origin pc origin pc builds custom desktops and laptops with free 24 7 lifetime tech support and they use high-end brand name components like samsung's 970 evo pro m.2 ssd visit origin pc at the link below for a special offer okay well you don't have anything to put that on yeah i know i'm just i'm completing as much of the setup as i can right now there why not utilize the amazon basics monitor stand okay so basically if your monitor doesn't come with a height adjustable stand or like i mean it doesn't have pivot does it have no it doesn't do that either so basically it's just height adjustment i think it takes a little nutshell yeah that's right it has pivot it has pivot well i don't know 30 hands can't it's advertised as only at supporting 24 inch monitors but i've read you can put a 27-inch on there but your mileage may vary in terms of the pivot you might not be able to get into portrait mode but who has a 24 have we investigated whether it is actually cost effective to buy a cheapo monitor and then put a basics stand on it i see this is the thing i'm not sure how many people actually need this on the one hand it seems super obscure but on the other hand amazon is making this product so it must be in demand isn't the whole thing with amazon basics that they do the most in-demand stuff okay he did it oh it's not like i wouldn't describe this thing as amazing like how do you hear that sound well it's a little too heavy oh god well you're gonna have to you're gonna have to tilt it for sure okay i'll hold the base the base is not very heavy wait a second i think we're gonna make it boom not bad i wonder if people are trying to rotate it like this and they're not realizing that on even a lot of like factory stands you have to tilt in order to rotate and i'll give you an amazon basics displayport cable how much is one of these gonna cost me six bucks depends on the length though that's a six footer that's not bad it's only outfitted for displayport 1.2 though so even though that has the same bandwidth as 1.4 there are some some features i mean the thing with that though is that there's no actual pin difference so it's just a matter of like what they're comfortable rating it at it's quite possible it would work just fine for dp 1.4 it just might not wow we bought a pc power cord i hope it didn't cost much we literally have a gigantic rubbermaid bin of these yeah but do they have the amazon basics does that actually say amazon basics on it no i think it's a pretty generic ass power cord well it was seven dollars a lot of people were giving it one star because they said that these holes were too small what i think they're trying to just plug normal stuff into it oh so for those of you out there who are even more basic than me that's how it is intended to be used and it works just fine nice nice snug fit it's perfectly adequate basic but adequate uh the other end is gonna go into oh yeah yeah okay just free outlet surge protector wall tap with two usb ports so you plug that bad boy into your wall outlet and you get a quick charging a regular charging and three outlets now to be clear i'm not recommending plugging a wall tap into a power squid but we're not really drawing a lot of power here so it's fine that's one amp that's 2.4 amps the second thing to keep in mind is that the top negative comment is entitled lit my house on fire there safe the amazon basics cable sleeve with zipper 20 inch black four pack so this is actually kind of cool basically you just put your wires in there and you zip it up now that you got that set up it's time for you to sit down in your 70 amazon basics chair they have a chair they have lots of different chairs this one was just kind of cheap and easy actually it's not that bad i will say that the uh the cushioning down here this is a this is a pretty like it's a pretty hard like a pretty firm cushion which is actually a better thing than you might expect because um if you have like a really plush cushion what happens to it over time is it just becomes not really a cushion and then you're just sitting on the piece of what is usually plywood on the bottom amazon basics microfiber cloths for electronics how many things did you buy the next thing is pretty much the reason we actually made this video is because they made this this is the amazon basics mechanical feel gaming keyboard okay so it's got five programmable macro keys uh this should be worth about 27.95 it's 36. okay well at least it's not far off i'm not happy with that though if you remember our mechanical keyboard no i wouldn't buy this there was a bunch of actual mechanical keyboards i mean granted they used chinese switches but still and they were in the 40 range 45 maybe they were trying to go for mechanical sound because you've got a couple keys that sounds kind of you can't like loud loud i think i think what they should call this is the loud membrane keyboard have a seven dollar mouse followed by the three button usb wired mouse oh you made poor tyler inventory all this stuff oh a desk pad all right what do you think would be a good price for that i'd pay 14.99 well you actually did pay 24.99 so that's their anti-fraying strategy it seems to be to burn it and they end up with actually quite a noticeable see there's a shine to the edge and it's kind of sharp you know what i just wouldn't buy this actually i would just buy something better we have no internet oh that's too bad maybe what you need is the rj45 cat5e ethernet patch cable from amazonbasics you or if you prefer the usb wi-fi adapter you know what i don't prefer the usb wi-fi adapter but i'll open it anyway just to humor you adorable it's happy to see me see this seems fine are you sure see things a little stiff actually this is apparently not an amazing cable uh the jacket is prone to cracking and when it does crack it'll crack along the length of the cable on a cable this short like 15 feet it's less of an issue where you really run into trouble with this these cheap outer jackets is when you have a longer cable and you go even if you over under it when you wind it up for storage you'll still run into a situation where you try to kind of you know throw it down and it's just a kinky mess i probably wouldn't buy this either i've had my disputes with mono price over the years but credit where credits do their cheap cables are less cheap how much battery do you have on your phone there 63 oh you could probably use a little charge here if you're using amazon basics usb c to usb c cable it's a little better than the network cable i wouldn't describe it as amazing though to their credit though they're using the more expensive connector housings that don't have the split down the one side they cost a little more okay well there was supposed to be a gaming headset but i think it's a pretty new amazon basics product so it takes between one and three months to ship so even though we got it in october it's not here until like mid-december so i got i did get you a little bluetooth speaker a portable bluetooth speaker great well that's not enough for your desktop setup micro b uh did they not have like a sound bar or something it really does not sound very good don't specify chromecast ultra the 4k hdr model so this is interesting it seems like the way that the audio profile is tuned even in its standard profile it's really emphasizing vocals and i can barely even hear the background music of this video you notice that like it's just it's just like a dialogue enhancer for your tv i mean pc gaming is so complicated why not just stick to console gaming oh wow they do an xbox one clone controller oh that is a weird texture oh yeah can you not hear that it's got like a really kind of grippy kind of feel to the back here those are loud oh those are really nice break the dead with those is this rgb backlit okay so it has different modes it can go off okay there's a different color this is breathing different colors yeah it's rgb okay uh is that it well i think if you want more functionality you need to install the amazonbasics keyboard software no i'm good the keyboard is not good the sound bar is not good unless i was just trying to hear you know the weather channel better you know uh the other thing with the soundbar is that it's supposed to come with a remote but ours just didn't oh what the oh wow i just got killed by easy bots anyway i can't stand to watch you struggle with that three click basic mouse here they do make a gaming mouse i do prefer the mouse to the keyboard so there's that we get presumably ah dpi adjustments we get a back and a forward button which are b i would consider basic features in the year 2018 not present on this one and we also get a braided cable which i was recently made aware that not everyone prefers because apparently they can get snagged on stuff from my experience i don't really get my braided cable snagged on things also has on-board memory so you can save your configs on the go cool and 3200 dpi okay and 24 dollars actually feels a little bit jittery at super high sensitivity it's definitely more comfortable than the other one quite heavy though like surprisingly heavy given how well basic it is this is too boring you should be yelling at your teammates with this professional usb condenser microphone all right more basics the most gratuitous packaging in the whole lot uh it's got a one of those standard mounts so that you can put it on an arm if you're into that sort of thing it actually has height adjust as well oh okay it's kind of rough oh boy tighten it up give it a chance you know what it actually does straighten out a fair bit so this is what i would sound like if i was uh yelling at my teammates or actually talking more normally to my teammates you can see i peeked a little bit there so we're going to go ahead and experience that there's no tactile feedback oh wow uh and that is uh let's see that is quite a bit that is quite a bit quieter now and uh we are getting up into the yellow range less often so in my like broadcast thank you for that all right these next two things are kind of better if you are trying to get a one chord solution for your laptop like you're docking your laptop and making it into a desktop you might want one of these you know this is a weird complaint but this chord is kind of long you wouldn't be saying that if you were trying to plug that into the back of your corsair one right now that's true so what it should really be is detachable it should be a type c to type c and then it should just come with a cable and you should be able to swap it out that's that would be better there there's our basic placement for it so this is a usb 3 external hard drive enclosure you get to provide your own hard drive comes with a couple little foam inserts which are presumably to keep your hard drive safe if you have a thin hard drive i don't know the top is metal but the majority that part's pretty plastic this is this is it this is what holds your drive i guess you just stick it to the top of the drive that is very basic at 20 bucks it's probably fine this is a very low quality usb cable that's included like that is very thin for a usb 3 cable so the side with the branding and not the like fcc sticker on it goes down if you don't want to put like strain on the connector or have your drive supported by just this one point here so i yeah i don't like this one very much and this oh the external hard drive case yeah this is very mediocre for six bucks it's fine for any more than that i probably i would probably opt for something else the amazonbasics multi-tip stylus for touchscreen devices for eight dollars that's an interesting idea so multi-tip stylus instead of just shipping it with multiple tips they just used every possible end of a pen type device to put a different tip so you got a big fat one you got a medium one and you got a skinny one yeah which is that's seven six and five millimeters respect okay so you could go fat skinny fat medium or skinny medium like there's kind of a lot of mush to them i don't think any of these are really fine or sharp enough to really write with you'd probably have more success if you had a nice comfortable amazon basics footrest actually that feels not bad it's got grip unlike the ikea ones that we use here at the office it's not as high though i don't think i'll give it a shot also one thing i already don't really like about it is that it's it swivels too easily a lot better overall feel and the skidness on the floor than the ikea one but it just if you just kind of man i don't even know if you just took like some some silicone crap and just kind of like gummed it up a little bit or something i think you could i think you could you know for less than a dollar you could diy it better ow wow this is 5 000 sheets of amazon basics paper why it's fine take your new amazon basics stapler for a spin line of staple tips ladies and gentlemen really is it like a it's a safety mechanism well that sucks because often like if you want to if you want to staple something to the wall or whatever you open up the stapler and you just oh that's a bummer yeah the shoulder buttons are so loud yeah like this is not this is not great i mean i still managed to score one goal diego linus but so how do you feel about yours 21 21 but you know what for 21 bucks i'm pretty okay with it quite frankly so how do you feel overall about your new basic battle station you know i like the display port cable one advantage we didn't mention before is that it doesn't require the lock so it's just a self-locking one you don't have to deal with like pressing the thing in order to unlatch it these cable management sleeves honestly if you're trying to get something done quick they can improve the look of behind your desk a fair bit come on not betty yeah like that helps a lot and they're neoprene i like the monitor stand believe it or not i think at 40 bucks i'd probably rather have one of the ones that just clip onto the desk personally but if you don't want that if you just want to convert a vase amount monitor to this or replace a broken stand honestly i'm i'm okay with that one the gaming mouse is alright actually it's i think it's too heavy to really like game on it like i i would consider it more like just a mouse but it's fine the grip on the side is makes it easy to lift off even though it is a little bit on the heavy side not not a big fan of the keyboard a big disappointment in the keyboard at 20 bucks this is fine i actually stopped noticing that scuffing on my arm pretty quickly maybe i was just busy filming a video and wasn't paying attention but it seems like less of a big deal now that i'm your mileage may vary on that one your mileage may vary oh that's a good cable that's working this cable seems fine i don't know there isn't really any conclusion like none of it really like blew me away but none of it was complete and utter garbage actually a couple of them were pretty bad the ethernet cable is bad i wouldn't use this hard drive dock and i wouldn't buy this keyboard there are much better keyboard options it didn't blow me away but you know what does blow me away squarespace my amazing segways right yeah to squarespace with squarespace you can create a beautiful and functional website without the hassle they have award-winning templates that you can use as starting points and all of their templates feature responsive design so they'll look great on any device if you need additional help squarespace offers 24 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rig and your gaming monitor and you've got some important gaming to do and on the other hand you're a total basic and you own that so today is the basic gaming setup where we will be creating the best gaming desktop we can order with only products from amazon basics origin pc origin pc builds custom desktops and laptops with free 24 7 lifetime tech support and they use high-end brand name components like samsung's 970 evo pro m.2 ssd visit origin pc at the link below for a special offer okay well you don't have anything to put that on yeah i know i'm just i'm completing as much of the setup as i can right now there why not utilize the amazon basics monitor stand okay so basically if your monitor doesn't come with a height adjustable stand or like i mean it doesn't have pivot does it have no it doesn't do that either so basically it's just height adjustment i think it takes a little nutshell yeah that's right it has pivot it has pivot well i don't know 30 hands can't it's advertised as only at supporting 24 inch monitors but i've read you can put a 27-inch on there but your mileage may vary in terms of the pivot you might not be able to get into portrait mode but who has a 24 have we investigated whether it is actually cost effective to buy a cheapo monitor and then put a basics stand on it i see this is the thing i'm not sure how many people actually need this on the one hand it seems super obscure but on the other hand amazon is making this product so it must be in demand isn't the whole thing with amazon basics that they do the most in-demand stuff okay he did it oh it's not like i wouldn't describe this thing as amazing like how do you hear that sound well it's a little too heavy oh god well you're gonna have to you're gonna have to tilt it for sure okay i'll hold the base the base is not very heavy wait a second i think we're gonna make it boom not bad i wonder if people are trying to rotate it like this and they're not realizing that on even a lot of like factory stands you have to tilt in order to rotate and i'll give you an amazon basics displayport cable how much is one of these gonna cost me six bucks depends on the length though that's a six footer that's not bad it's only outfitted for displayport 1.2 though so even though that has the same bandwidth as 1.4 there are some some features i mean the thing with that though is that there's no actual pin difference so it's just a matter of like what they're comfortable rating it at it's quite possible it would work just fine for dp 1.4 it just might not wow we bought a pc power cord i hope it didn't cost much we literally have a gigantic rubbermaid bin of these yeah but do they have the amazon basics does that actually say amazon basics on it no i think it's a pretty generic ass power cord well it was seven dollars a lot of people were giving it one star because they said that these holes were too small what i think they're trying to just plug normal stuff into it oh so for those of you out there who are even more basic than me that's how it is intended to be used and it works just fine nice nice snug fit it's perfectly adequate basic but adequate uh the other end is gonna go into oh yeah yeah okay just free outlet surge protector wall tap with two usb ports so you plug that bad boy into your wall outlet and you get a quick charging a regular charging and three outlets now to be clear i'm not recommending plugging a wall tap into a power squid but we're not really drawing a lot of power here so it's fine that's one amp that's 2.4 amps the second thing to keep in mind is that the top negative comment is entitled lit my house on fire there safe the amazon basics cable sleeve with zipper 20 inch black four pack so this is actually kind of cool basically you just put your wires in there and you zip it up now that you got that set up it's time for you to sit down in your 70 amazon basics chair they have a chair they have lots of different chairs this one was just kind of cheap and easy actually it's not that bad i will say that the uh the cushioning down here this is a this is a pretty like it's a pretty hard like a pretty firm cushion which is actually a better thing than you might expect because um if you have like a really plush cushion what happens to it over time is it just becomes not really a cushion and then you're just sitting on the piece of what is usually plywood on the bottom amazon basics microfiber cloths for electronics how many things did you buy the next thing is pretty much the reason we actually made this video is because they made this this is the amazon basics mechanical feel gaming keyboard okay so it's got five programmable macro keys uh this should be worth about 27.95 it's 36. okay well at least it's not far off i'm not happy with that though if you remember our mechanical keyboard no i wouldn't buy this there was a bunch of actual mechanical keyboards i mean granted they used chinese switches but still and they were in the 40 range 45 maybe they were trying to go for mechanical sound because you've got a couple keys that sounds kind of you can't like loud loud i think i think what they should call this is the loud membrane keyboard have a seven dollar mouse followed by the three button usb wired mouse oh you made poor tyler inventory all this stuff oh a desk pad all right what do you think would be a good price for that i'd pay 14.99 well you actually did pay 24.99 so that's their anti-fraying strategy it seems to be to burn it and they end up with actually quite a noticeable see there's a shine to the edge and it's kind of sharp you know what i just wouldn't buy this actually i would just buy something better we have no internet oh that's too bad maybe what you need is the rj45 cat5e ethernet patch cable from amazonbasics you or if you prefer the usb wi-fi adapter you know what i don't prefer the usb wi-fi adapter but i'll open it anyway just to humor you adorable it's happy to see me see this seems fine are you sure see things a little stiff actually this is apparently not an amazing cable uh the jacket is prone to cracking and when it does crack it'll crack along the length of the cable on a cable this short like 15 feet it's less of an issue where you really run into trouble with this these cheap outer jackets is when you have a longer cable and you go even if you over under it when you wind it up for storage you'll still run into a situation where you try to kind of you know throw it down and it's just a kinky mess i probably wouldn't buy this either i've had my disputes with mono price over the years but credit where credits do their cheap cables are less cheap how much battery do you have on your phone there 63 oh you could probably use a little charge here if you're using amazon basics usb c to usb c cable it's a little better than the network cable i wouldn't describe it as amazing though to their credit though they're using the more expensive connector housings that don't have the split down the one side they cost a little more okay well there was supposed to be a gaming headset but i think it's a pretty new amazon basics product so it takes between one and three months to ship so even though we got it in october it's not here until like mid-december so i got i did get you a little bluetooth speaker a portable bluetooth speaker great well that's not enough for your desktop setup micro b uh did they not have like a sound bar or something it really does not sound very good don't specify chromecast ultra the 4k hdr model so this is interesting it seems like the way that the audio profile is tuned even in its standard profile it's really emphasizing vocals and i can barely even hear the background music of this video you notice that like it's just it's just like a dialogue enhancer for your tv i mean pc gaming is so complicated why not just stick to console gaming oh wow they do an xbox one clone controller oh that is a weird texture oh yeah can you not hear that it's got like a really kind of grippy kind of feel to the back here those are loud oh those are really nice break the dead with those is this rgb backlit okay so it has different modes it can go off okay there's a different color this is breathing different colors yeah it's rgb okay uh is that it well i think if you want more functionality you need to install the amazonbasics keyboard software no i'm good the keyboard is not good the sound bar is not good unless i was just trying to hear you know the weather channel better you know uh the other thing with the soundbar is that it's supposed to come with a remote but ours just didn't oh what the oh wow i just got killed by easy bots anyway i can't stand to watch you struggle with that three click basic mouse here they do make a gaming mouse i do prefer the mouse to the keyboard so there's that we get presumably ah dpi adjustments we get a back and a forward button which are b i would consider basic features in the year 2018 not present on this one and we also get a braided cable which i was recently made aware that not everyone prefers because apparently they can get snagged on stuff from my experience i don't really get my braided cable snagged on things also has on-board memory so you can save your configs on the go cool and 3200 dpi okay and 24 dollars actually feels a little bit jittery at super high sensitivity it's definitely more comfortable than the other one quite heavy though like surprisingly heavy given how well basic it is this is too boring you should be yelling at your teammates with this professional usb condenser microphone all right more basics the most gratuitous packaging in the whole lot uh it's got a one of those standard mounts so that you can put it on an arm if you're into that sort of thing it actually has height adjust as well oh okay it's kind of rough oh boy tighten it up give it a chance you know what it actually does straighten out a fair bit so this is what i would sound like if i was uh yelling at my teammates or actually talking more normally to my teammates you can see i peeked a little bit there so we're going to go ahead and experience that there's no tactile feedback oh wow uh and that is uh let's see that is quite a bit that is quite a bit quieter now and uh we are getting up into the yellow range less often so in my like broadcast thank you for that all right these next two things are kind of better if you are trying to get a one chord solution for your laptop like you're docking your laptop and making it into a desktop you might want one of these you know this is a weird complaint but this chord is kind of long you wouldn't be saying that if you were trying to plug that into the back of your corsair one right now that's true so what it should really be is detachable it should be a type c to type c and then it should just come with a cable and you should be able to swap it out that's that would be better there there's our basic placement for it so this is a usb 3 external hard drive enclosure you get to provide your own hard drive comes with a couple little foam inserts which are presumably to keep your hard drive safe if you have a thin hard drive i don't know the top is metal but the majority that part's pretty plastic this is this is it this is what holds your drive i guess you just stick it to the top of the drive that is very basic at 20 bucks it's probably fine this is a very low quality usb cable that's included like that is very thin for a usb 3 cable so the side with the branding and not the like fcc sticker on it goes down if you don't want to put like strain on the connector or have your drive supported by just this one point here so i yeah i don't like this one very much and this oh the external hard drive case yeah this is very mediocre for six bucks it's fine for any more than that i probably i would probably opt for something else the amazonbasics multi-tip stylus for touchscreen devices for eight dollars that's an interesting idea so multi-tip stylus instead of just shipping it with multiple tips they just used every possible end of a pen type device to put a different tip so you got a big fat one you got a medium one and you got a skinny one yeah which is that's seven six and five millimeters respect okay so you could go fat skinny fat medium or skinny medium like there's kind of a lot of mush to them i don't think any of these are really fine or sharp enough to really write with you'd probably have more success if you had a nice comfortable amazon basics footrest actually that feels not bad it's got grip unlike the ikea ones that we use here at the office it's not as high though i don't think i'll give it a shot also one thing i already don't really like about it is that it's it swivels too easily a lot better overall feel and the skidness on the floor than the ikea one but it just if you just kind of man i don't even know if you just took like some some silicone crap and just kind of like gummed it up a little bit or something i think you could i think you could you know for less than a dollar you could diy it better ow wow this is 5 000 sheets of amazon basics paper why it's fine take your new amazon basics stapler for a spin line of staple tips ladies and gentlemen really is it like a it's a safety mechanism well that sucks because often like if you want to if you want to staple something to the wall or whatever you open up the stapler and you just oh that's a bummer yeah the shoulder buttons are so loud yeah like this is not this is not great i mean i still managed to score one goal diego linus but so how do you feel about yours 21 21 but you know what for 21 bucks i'm pretty okay with it quite frankly so how do you feel overall about your new basic battle station you know i like the display port cable one advantage we didn't mention before is that it doesn't require the lock so it's just a self-locking one you don't have to deal with like pressing the thing in order to unlatch it these cable management sleeves honestly if you're trying to get something done quick they can improve the look of behind your desk a fair bit come on not betty yeah like that helps a lot and they're neoprene i like the monitor stand believe it or not i think at 40 bucks i'd probably rather have one of the ones that just clip onto the desk personally but if you don't want that if you just want to convert a vase amount monitor to this or replace a broken stand honestly i'm i'm okay with that one the gaming mouse is alright actually it's i think it's too heavy to really like game on it like i i would consider it more like just a mouse but it's fine the grip on the side is makes it easy to lift off even though it is a little bit on the heavy side not not a big fan of the keyboard a big disappointment in the keyboard at 20 bucks this is fine i actually stopped noticing that scuffing on my arm pretty quickly maybe i was just busy filming a video and wasn't paying attention but it seems like less of a big deal now that i'm your mileage may vary on that one your mileage may vary oh that's a good cable that's working this cable seems fine i don't know there isn't really any conclusion like none of it really like blew me away but none of it was complete and utter garbage actually a couple of them were pretty bad the ethernet cable is bad i wouldn't use this hard drive dock and i wouldn't buy this keyboard there are much better keyboard options it didn't blow me away but you know what does blow me away squarespace my amazing segways right yeah to squarespace with squarespace you can create a beautiful and functional website without the hassle they have award-winning templates that you can use as starting points and all of their templates feature responsive design so they'll look great on any device if you need additional help squarespace offers 24 7 tech support via live chat and email and this is cool if you already have a third party domain you don't have to 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