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(More customer reviews)I'm really happy with this little guy. It makes a nice second (or third) monitor without taking up space and being very easy to install. It was especially cool to have this as a second display on my laptop
The beauty here is that you don't need to fiddle with extra video cards. You just plug it in via USB and you're set.
I'm running Windows Vista on my desktop and laptop, and it installed without a hitch... although it was not immediate. Windows Vista found the driver online (automatically) so it took about 10 minutes before I was able to use it (yeesh). Still, not having to install anything from the disc was great, and the install process is painless.
The device looks great on a desk. The stand is very stylish.
The display is super sharp. 800x480 on something this small is quite a treat. I had to increase the font size of my IM client to be able to read it, but that was fine by me.
It's a 7" diagonal, which is about 6" x 3½". With the base, it stands about 8½" tall and is about 4" deep. You can also remove the base, and mount it to just about any compatible frame or hold it in your palm I suppose.
Video and graphics are very sharp, although I can't recommend this for high-quality video as the refresh rate (over USB) is just too slow. If you're watching YouTube it will be fine.
Whoever designed the packaging definitely deserves a raise, while the person who wrote the included manual needs to be fired. The manual is ugly and full of translation errors, but really you won't need it.
The built-in webcam works as well as any other webcam. I haven't tried the mic or headphone jack yet. Note that this model does not have built-in speakers.
The device driver lets you easily rotate the display (and physically, you just turn it, the stand supports it just fine). The driver also lets you set the display to "Mirror" mode which mirrors your existing monitor (and changes its resolution to 800x480).
There are three drawbacks:
The device requires TWO USB ports to function. It's awesome that this doesn't need AC power, but be ready to give up two USB ports.
If you want to use the microphone or headphone jack, you'll need to plug in two more cables -- one for the mic and another for headphones. The data is NOT carried over USB as I would have imagined. I think this is pretty lousy but perhaps there's a good reason.
The driver installed two extra processes that must run for the display to work, called DisplayLinkManager.exe and DisplayLinkUI.exe. Together, these take 24 MB of RAM. In my book, that's acceptable. Whatever that software is doing should be off-loaded onto the hardware.
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