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ViBook USB video card – easy solution to hook up additional monitors to USB ports

Although USB monitors are pretty common these days, but you may wanna save your pocket, looking for cheaper solution for hooking up one or more monitors to your computer via the USB ports. So you could have multiple displays to carry out multiple tasks simultaneously. The ViBook Tronic USB video card will be the solution, if you want a quick, easy and cheaper way to hook up one or more monitor displays to the USB ports.

The ViBook device is actually an DVI to USB adapter. The company seems pretty smart, having given it a cool name, called the ViBook USB video card. Basically, there are quite a number of such devices out there in the market and most of them come with a cheaper price tag.

But they’re much lower-end than this ViBook adapter. Such as the cheapest will normally come with NO Mac support (Windows only), max out of 1280 x 1024, and provide analog VGA output only. Those higher-priced have support for Mac, with resolutions up to 1600 x 1200 or 1680 x 1050 and provide DVI support. But with this ViBook adapter you get the features of all.

The ViBook USB video card comes with various adapters to suit different types of monitor. Its outer look is a small rectangular black box, with one end is the DVI male connector and the other end is a USB cable. If you don’t have a DYI-equipped display, no worry, it does include a DVI to VGA adapter cable. If you have a VESA-capable flat panel display, you can opt to use the plastic VESA mount and use the provided mounting screws to stick it to the back of the monitor.

In short, the ViBook USB video adapter is a straightforward solution for hooking up your existing monitors to the USB ports. Unfortunately, it’s a rather pricey piece that costs $129.00, but it shall be much cheaper than having to buy a new USB monitor. (But not the D-Link SideStage, rumor says that it’s cheaper than the ViBook adapter.)

Besides the price tag, other shorts of this device are no support of video acceleration, motion display not smooth, HDTV support limited to 480p, HDMI support needs the HDMI to DVI adapter, which is not included and it does NOT support Linux.

Buy online, $129, ViBook

via everythingusb

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