Breaking news – Newegg’s running a pretty good Black Friday sale, but one particular item really stands out.
The Asus VW223B 22″ LCD monitor is $150. That’s a decent price for a 22″ monitor, but the DisplayLink USB connectivity makes it a truly killer deal. You can connect this monitor to a PC using not DVI, not HDMI, but plain old USB. It uses a software driver called DisplayLink to make the magic happen. You can connect up to 6 monitors to your laptop or Mac Mini, even when those devices don’t support multiple monitors.
Here’s a review of the Asus VW223B talking about the USB connectivity and DisplayLink.
Note that this is NOT an ordinary flat panel monitor with a USB hub – this is a monitor where the actual video signals go over the USB connection. No VGA cables, no DVI cables, etc.
Obviously, this isn’t a high-end gaming video adapter by any means, but it makes a great rig just to show your TweetDeck, email, browser, etc. I bought one for my Macbook Pro just to show TweetDeck – it’s a great piece of software, but it’s a screen hog.
Even better, it’s $129.99 after $20 Mail In Rebate
http://images10.newegg.com/uploadfilesfornewegg/rebate/SH/ASUS13MIRsNov1Nov3008ll97.pdf
Being Canadian, I will simply envy
Newegg.ca sucks even if it just launched in Canada recently
Okay here’s my question, (since we all know I’m clueless
):
What makes a monitor good for gaming?
That’s a great question, actually! The answer is different for this particular type of monitor (DisplayView.)
Say you sink your life savings into the latest graphics adapter, the AMDNVidia Super Pixel Blaster 9000 Baconator, because you want to play FarCrysis3 at the highest frame rate possible. When you hook up this monitor, it connects via USB, not DVI or HDMI, so your fancy-pants graphics card doesn’t help.
(Technicality: this monitor does also have a VGA port, but you wouldn’t want to use that because won’t perform as well as a similarly priced monitor with a DVI or HDMI input. You only want to buy this monitor if you’re going to connect via USB.)
And yes, dear readers, that sale is over. Cue the sad music.