BreezyLife Thin 14" Dual Laptop Screen Extender with 1.3lbs - Review

The BreezyLife Thin 14" Dual Laptop Screen Extender is a weird one. It's not a laptop, but it's sold like one. For $190, you get a 14-inch portable monitor that weighs just 0.59kg (about 1.3lbs). It's basically a second screen that connects via HDMI. That's it. There's no computer inside, so forget about CPU, RAM, or storage specs. It's just a display in a slim case.

Its best and only real feature is its portability, scoring in the 96th percentile for compactness. That means it's lighter and thinner than almost any actual laptop. But that's where the good news ends. Our scoring system, which compares it to real laptops, shows it's terrible for almost everything else. It's predictably awful for gaming (2.8/100) and gets rock-bottom scores for reliability, storage, and RAM because, well, it has none of those things.

Performance isn't really a thing here. This is a monitor, not a computer. Its 'CPU' and 'GPU' percentiles (23rd and 18th) are meaningless because it doesn't have them. The integrated graphics just power the 14-inch screen itself. The 'screen' percentile is a low 16th, which tells us the panel quality is basic at best. Don't expect great color or brightness. It's a functional second display, and that's the entire performance story. It shows an image.

At $190, the value proposition is confusing. As a portable monitor, you can find better 14-inch options with higher refresh rates or touchscreens for similar money. As a 'laptop,' which is how it's being presented in this comparison, it's a terrible value. You're paying for half a product. The price per performance ratio is infinite because there's no performance to speak of. You're just buying a screen.

Comparing this to the listed 'competitors' is almost funny. The Apple MacBook Pro M4 is a $3,000 powerhouse. The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is a gaming beast. This BreezyLife thing isn't in their league; it's not even the same sport. A more apt comparison is to other portable monitors. Against those, it's light but likely has a worse panel and fewer features than something like an Asus ZenScreen. The Zenbook Duo, which has two built-in screens, makes this external add-on look redundant. If you need a second screen, buy a proper portable monitor. If you need a computer, buy a laptop.

Here's the data-backed recommendation: do not buy this thinking it's a laptop. It is not. It's a very basic portable monitor with a misleading product name. Its 96th percentile score for compactness is the only positive, and that's because it's missing all the parts that make a computer heavy. If you desperately need the absolute lightest possible 14-inch HDMI screen and don't care about quality, maybe consider it. For literally everyone else, from students to business users, its scores in the teens and single digits tell the whole story. Spend your $190 elsewhere.