USB 2 DVI - Experiences

[chadders]

Anyone any experience of using these? Googling throws up only older reviews.

Alternatives?

Old eyes can't hack the 18.4" widescreen 1920x1080 laptop display anymore, have a HDMI->DVI cable into a 22" 1680x1050 LCD would like to be able to use a 2nd 19" 1280x1024 LCD alongside it.

Not gaming, but if it could handle Windows 7 aero - I've found the Startech USB2DVIPRO but I'd rather not spend £70-£80 on something that may not work.

(Spec: Vaio VGN-AW11Z with a GeForce 9600M GT GPU, has a VGA port as well as HDMI but don't want the fuzziness of VGA.

[abaxas]

http://www.displaylink.com/

All the info on usb>dvi/vga stuff as they all use chips from above.

I have one on my mac. It's find for normal work, just dont expect to play games/video on it. By normal work I mean surfing/office etc.

[chadders]

Just having Outlook open on a seperate screen would be good, ta.

[MaddAussie]

We use them extensively @ work and they are great although some have a limited res.

[chadders]

Any chance you have one at work that would do aero + 1280x1024 + 32bit, that the user says works ok-ish? As they say, a personal recommendation is worth it's weight in gold.

[abaxas]

Any chance you have one at work that would do aero + 1280x1024 + 32bit, that the user says works ok-ish? As they say, a personal recommendation is worth it's weight in gold.

Exactly how I have it setup on the mac. No use to use, but so far I've had 0 issues.

Infacrt I'm tempted to buy another one.

[chadders]

Received a Startech USB2DVIE2 t'other day, back to dual screen setup for development now.

Pros: erm... dual screen, outlook & eg Notepad++ on seperate screen for less alt+tabbing, simple enough install on Windows 7 (load drivers, reboot, plug in), small and lightweight unit.

Cons: it's not fast eg shimmer & stutter moving windows around (but perfectly fine for typing on), must have aero disabled (they do a version USB2DVIPRO that supports it*), move a window round and you can see processor activity go up.

Overall: impressed, given it enables external dual screen from a laptop via DVI (I'd forgotten how blurry VGA was).

*I'd expect the support of aero to go hand in hand with increased CPU activity.