http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/ Engadget Comments for OWC rolls out USB 2.0 display adapter for Macs and PCs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/]]>Apr 29th 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/
Still, as I say, if your graphics card is good, you might get much better performance than my PoS built-in Intel junk. ]]>Apr 29th 2009 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/
Are these worth buying? Can you use them for gaming and streaming videos? I ask only because my VGA Port has gone bad on my laptop. Whatever it is connected to sends has a green-tint over the display (Yes, I've checked the cable, my friend's laptop connected to the displays all work fine). I have no idea how this happened, the green-tint just came one fine day and it never went away. =(

Therefore, I'm considering getting one of these things if they're really on par with internal video cards.

Cheers!]]>Apr 29th 2009 6:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 6:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/
Thank you for pointing me in that direction! How much will it cost roughly to have it fixed?

Cheers.]]>Apr 29th 2009 6:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/
That said, I would expect it to be less than the price of this adapter in most cases, but as I do all my own repairs I'm not really sure what the competitive rates are the days. Even if it's more than this adapter, the cost of getting the native port repaired will probably offset the performance hit you're likely to see from using this adapter. While your mileage may vary, I've yet to see a USB display adapter match the responsiveness of a native vga port.]]>Apr 29th 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 6:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/
Bit of a rant also, what jerks decided DVI-D was a good thing to stick on a port replicator. ]]>Apr 29th 2009 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/
If you have a laptop, keep in mind when your screen is open you can usually use the external monitor interface for a secondary screen.

And why would you buy this product when the UVPlus from EVGA does the same and is cheaper?]]>Apr 29th 2009 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Too bad USB 2.0 is too slow to support three, or even two, 1920x1200 monitors. I run three 1920x1200s: One from my ThinkPad's NVidia 140M graphics, two from a Matrox M9120 card in the ThinkPad dock. ATI's FirePro 2450 (another card) can drive four DVIs at 1920x1200. For those of us who can never have too many pixels, USB 3.0 will change the game.]]>Apr 29th 2009 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/
Pretty cool for us laptop users who wish to triple their screen real estate!]]>Apr 29th 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.evga.com/uvplus/) which Gr1zz mentioned claims to have Windows Vista Aero Support.]]>Apr 29th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/
Sucks that Mac users again have to pay a premium for essentially the same hardware.........]]>Apr 29th 2009 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=4431380&sku=H231-3888]]>Apr 29th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 29th 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/29/owc-rolls-out-usb-2-0-display-adapter-for-macs-and-pcs/Apr 30th 2009 5:07PM