Hey, Engadget guys, are you sure you didn't miss a zero on the end of that price tag, there? Because that is..... unusually cheap. I would expect such a thing to start with at least a $500 baseline.
As for USB not having enough bandwidth to provide decent visuals, you're probably all right. In the future, however.... Considering that USB 3.0 is on the horizon, I would hazard a guess that Intel has their eye on something of the sort: Use your integrated Intel GMA on your Centrino laptop, then when you want to do some graphics-intensive work, plug in your USB 3.0 monitor, basically integrating something like ASUS's XG-Station (Is that thing still vaporware?) and a flat-panel together. If something like that *does* work, you'll probably be able to say goodbye to VGA/DVI ports, at the least.
Scratch that. If DVI's maximum clock frequencies == maximum theoretical speed for the cable, then USB 3.0 will only be able to get to half of what DVI can handle. (Single-link: Capped at 165 MHz, 3.7Gbit/sec, Dual-link: in excess of 7.4 Gbit/sec, limited only by cable quality.) USB 3.0's tenative specs only rate it at 4.8Gbit/sec.
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Webwolf @ Oct 4th 2007 8:20AM
Hey, Engadget guys, are you sure you didn't miss a zero on the end of that price tag, there? Because that is..... unusually cheap. I would expect such a thing to start with at least a $500 baseline.
As for USB not having enough bandwidth to provide decent visuals, you're probably all right. In the future, however.... Considering that USB 3.0 is on the horizon, I would hazard a guess that Intel has their eye on something of the sort: Use your integrated Intel GMA on your Centrino laptop, then when you want to do some graphics-intensive work, plug in your USB 3.0 monitor, basically integrating something like ASUS's XG-Station (Is that thing still vaporware?) and a flat-panel together. If something like that *does* work, you'll probably be able to say goodbye to VGA/DVI ports, at the least.
Webwolf @ Oct 4th 2007 8:33AM
Scratch that. If DVI's maximum clock frequencies == maximum theoretical speed for the cable, then USB 3.0 will only be able to get to half of what DVI can handle. (Single-link: Capped at 165 MHz, 3.7Gbit/sec, Dual-link: in excess of 7.4 Gbit/sec, limited only by cable quality.) USB 3.0's tenative specs only rate it at 4.8Gbit/sec.