is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes, and life as a digital nomad. He’s been a tech journalist for 20 years.
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Most gadgets are iterative in the value they bring to our lives. The 15.6-inch Espresso Pro portable monitor is different, having utterly transformed the way I work remotely over the last month of testing.
See, I spend a lot of time working from my van, which makes me miss my dual-monitor setup at home — it’s hard to adapt to a single 14-inch laptop display after regularly working on a pair of 27-inch monitors. Espresso lets me approximate that setup in tight spaces with a display that’s thinner and much lighter than the Mac or Windows laptop it enhances. And it connects over a single USB-C cable.
I’m writing this from my van’s “office,” where Espresso’s 4K (3840 x 2160) LCD touchscreen with 1.07 billion colors (100 percent Adobe RGB) hovers above my MacBook Pro perched on a small table — photos processing on one display as I type these words on another. At night, I can swap the MacBook for my iPhone 15 Pro (or Android phone) to create a relatively big, shareable screen for watching films in bed.
At $699 / €799 it ain’t cheap, but after my laptop and Starlink Mini internet connection, the Espresso Pro is the gadget I find myself relying upon most to work remotely.
But then again, I don’t own an iPad.
8 Verge Score Espresso Pro 15 Display $ 699 $ 699 The Good Bright 4K display with decent color
Thin and lightweight
Works with Mac, PC, Android, and iPhone
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