Why on earth would anyone want this? Is plugging in a DVI or HDMI cable really that difficult? USB2 bandwidth is 480mpbs. I don't see how this monitor can even remotly perform for anything other than running a browser and reading email. Gaming? I really doubt it. Video? Ditto. The driver for this thing would be 100% software on the PC-side so no 3D accelration. Even if the montor had a GPU built in, the low bandwidth of the USB2 conenction would render it useless.
As to ATI and NVIDIA shipping cards with USB ports: Why? Single link DVI, required for a monitor of this class runs at 3.7Gbps. Why should they shoe-horn in some sort of wacky compress-o-matic part to make their cards work with a display that has been designed to solve a problem that does not exist?
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Ian @ Feb 21st 2007 1:50PM
Why on earth would anyone want this? Is plugging in a DVI or HDMI cable really that difficult? USB2 bandwidth is 480mpbs. I don't see how this monitor can even remotly perform for anything other than running a browser and reading email. Gaming? I really doubt it. Video? Ditto. The driver for this thing would be 100% software on the PC-side so no 3D accelration. Even if the montor had a GPU built in, the low bandwidth of the USB2 conenction would render it useless.
As to ATI and NVIDIA shipping cards with USB ports: Why? Single link DVI, required for a monitor of this class runs at 3.7Gbps. Why should they shoe-horn in some sort of wacky compress-o-matic part to make their cards work with a display that has been designed to solve a problem that does not exist?