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£270 then?
I paid two and a half times that price for my i5 Surface Pro 4, which as well as packing in an entire computer, also had a touchscreen with a resolution of 2736 x 1824. 1080P at this price seems like an awful premium :/
Pretty pricey offering from ASUS. AOC pioneered such a USB monitor concept years ago and I'm quite sure their pricing is far better (although slightly lower res - https://www.amazon.com/AOC-e1659Fwu-1366x768-Brightness-3-0-Powered/dp/B00CMKOVMO )
Nice idea, loadsamoney, too thin and breakable for me to even consider hiking up a mountain and "overcoming challenges" with it...
AOC looks far cheaper, even with UK pricing!!
I expect tablets to include a similar feature before too long...
Quite a different sized screen, this is intended as a portable addition to an existing laptop form factor... how many 15.6" tablets are there, and how much to they weigh?Quote:
Originally Posted by daddacool
Quite a large proportion of the cost of a laptop or tablet is the screen.
Most tablets have very much smaller screens that aren't much use at laptop typing distance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
And yet so many can be fitted to cases with integral keyboards and used just like a laptop...Quote:
Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle
I could be wrong, but I *assume* one can actually just make the text bigger, no? :lol:
Some kind of double case that can fit this and an equal sized laptop would be nice, keeps them together and if your bag is a bit tight they'll share any bending loads
Very true, I initially started with just the resolution and then added the rest of it as I got more carried away :) 1080P on a budget 15.6" laptop, looking at ebuyer an i3 HP is a good fit, costs just £80 more than this. The specs are too low for the price, even if a big chunk of a laptops price is its screen.
Sure, you can, but then you're left with a hopelessly small screen area. A ~10" screen is simply too small to be useful as a laptop. In my experience, roughly 12" is the lower limit for laptop use. As such, the Surface Pro is a good compromise. Not that you can fit a usable keyboard in a 10" form factor anyhow.Quote:
Originally Posted by TtaskmasterAnd yet so many can be fitted to cases with integral keyboards and used just like a laptop...Quote:
Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle
I could be wrong, but I *assume* one can actually just make the text bigger, no? :lol:
As for the Asus monitor, I love the concept, resolution, and low weight (that it is IPS and has an sRGB mode makes me hope for some okay colour accuracy too), but I would really want an HDMI input. That's a deal breaker for me, unfortunately.
While I accept it's a bit expensive in the UK, as a second screen for the streaming crowd it would be a pretty neat solution.
Speak for yourself - I did very well for several years with just a 10.1" Netbook as my main PC, including gaming use. Only reason I'm not still using it is the lack of 1080p for movies and the hardware will not run Windows 10.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valantar
Before that, I was using a Psion Revo.
Both keyboards were among the most usable I've ever had and I could type as well on those as the bog standard HP keyboard I'm typing this on!
Certainly looking at the Galaxy tablet thing the wife has, I could use that just fine as a second screen...
The 12" of the Surface Pro 4 is usable like a small laptop but if you're going to use a regular 10" tablet for screen mirroring with a larger device it's not going to be good by the time scaling is adjusted to match a laptop screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
When you fit something the size of a 10" tablet with a matching tiny keyboard and plonk it on the desk you are closer to the screen than with a 15" laptop, you can't really compare a 15" auxiliary screen for a laptop with a <12" tablet...
If you demand über hi-def from both screens, then no... but for just a general auxiliary screen, I don't see a problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle
So position it closer to your face...?Quote:
Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle
I often use a 5.1" mobile phone in 1080x1920 and only need it about 7" further forward from my main screen...
By slightly you mean basically half the res, doesn't support DisplayPort, and a vastly inferior TN panel which has terrible colours (6-bit) and viewing angles.Quote:
Originally Posted by preter_s
By your logic a £100 FHD IPS monitor is pretty pricey because you can get £50 720p TN off Fleabay. If you're the kind of person who routinely goes for the cheapest monitor you can get, premium IPS displays are not aimed at you.