Take Your Console With You – GAEMS M-155 Performance Gaming Monitor Review

<p>Now you might not be so familiar with <strong>GAEMS&comma;<&sol;strong> who were founded in 2010 by <em>Dean Mercier<&sol;em> and <em>John Smith<&sol;em>&comma; but you will probably recognize a revolutionary product that has had huge success in the US&semi; <em>The GAEMS Vanguard&sol;Sentry<&sol;em>&period; Now&comma; they have decided to expand their product line by introducing a range of gaming monitors&comma; designed specifically for portability and performance&period; Today I’ll be taking a look at the <strong>M-155 Performance Gaming Monitor&period; <&sol;strong>It’s a monitor I’ve not really seen before&comma; but it’s very impressive and&comma; to the right audience&comma; is something I believe will be extremely useful&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04203012&sol;DSCF0643&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87314" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04203012&sol;DSCF0643-1024x768&period;jpg" alt&equals;"DSCF0643" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"465" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The M-155 is&comma; and namely so&comma; a 15&period;5” LED portable monitor&comma; with a gloss screen&comma; textured casing&comma; and a tablet-like appearance&period; The screen is a native 720p display&comma; but it can display 1080p scaled down&comma; which will give you a loss of detail for 1080p games&comma; but still looks pretty impressive&period; Included with the screen is a case &&num;8212&semi; awesomely called it&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;shield&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8212&semi; which is screwed into the top of the M-155&comma; and has three levels to stand at different angles&period; Amazingly&comma; it weighs less 2 pounds&comma; being the first thing that shocks you as you hold it in your hands&period; What else may shock you&quest; How about the fact that it’s powered through a single micro USB&quest; You can either plug into the mains via an adapter that comes with the monitor&comma; into your PC or laptop&comma; or into your console&semi; The USB also splits in two in case you need more power from your USB&comma; something I found is needed from the front ports on my PC&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s a single HDMI&comma; which can be used for any console with a HDMI&comma; PC and Laptops&comma; but I&&num;8217&semi;ll get onto that a little bit later&period; The monitor does not have speakers built-in&comma; but it does have a 3&period;5mm headphone port in which you can plug in either your headphones or your speakers for optimal sound&comma; which is a great alternative&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s also volume control&comma; brightness&comma; and a few display settings in the menu&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04202956&sol;11747544&lowbar;10204810613971614&lowbar;1037689807&lowbar;o&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87335" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04202956&sol;11747544&lowbar;10204810613971614&lowbar;1037689807&lowbar;o-1024x768&period;jpg" alt&equals;"11747544&lowbar;10204810613971614&lowbar;1037689807&lowbar;o" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"465" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; the screen is beautiful&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s very bright&comma; the colours are vivid&comma; and it looks as good if not better than most standard TVs &&num;8212&semi; at least at the same size&period; As the screen is gloss&comma; it does attract dust and fingerprints very easily&comma; so just be sure to use your shield and maybe have a screen cleaner on standby&period; A flaw I have noticed is when plugged into a PC or Laptop&comma; the display isn&&num;8217&semi;t very sharp and the limited settings make it so you can&&num;8217&semi;t improve it&period; More settings would be the best option&comma; but if GAEMS added a PC profile so you can switch between Gaming and PC&comma; that would improve it&&num;8217&semi;s diversity&period; The display for consoles&comma; however&comma; is absolutely stunning&comma; with only some slight ghosting you get quickly accustomed to&period; Although it is a large screen for being portable&comma; you may be able to squeeze it in with your laptop or just in your backpack&comma; taking it anywhere you please that has a single plug socket&period; Games are moving away from couch gaming &lpar;for some reason&excl;&rpar;&comma; and playing with your friends is becoming an online only experience&period; But&comma; if you take your console with your M155 monitor to your friends house with your favourite game&comma; you can play together and have a blast anytime and almost anywhere&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04202814&sol;1237795&lowbar;10204815283248343&lowbar;907859995&lowbar;o&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87385" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;07&sol;04202814&sol;1237795&lowbar;10204815283248343&lowbar;907859995&lowbar;o-1024x768&period;jpg" alt&equals;"1237795&lowbar;10204815283248343&lowbar;907859995&lowbar;o" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"465" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Priced at &dollar;169&period;99&comma; the GAEMS M155 is maybe a tad expensive if you don&&num;8217&semi;t think you&&num;8217&semi;re going to use it too often&period; If you travel often&comma; visit friends&comma; generally think you will make good use of a portable monitor for consoles&comma; then I&&num;8217&semi;d highly recommend it&period; It might be a better product with a couple of additional features&comma; but being the first of it&&num;8217&semi;s kind by GAEMS&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a fantastic monitor&period; Also&comma; I think that having it to use on a plane or take to LAN events if you&&num;8217&semi;re a big gamer is a huge reason to purchase this beauty for yourself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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