Ab Work Outs: EVGA 100-U2-UV12-A1 UV Plus USB VGA Adapter for Multiple Displays Supporting Up to 1400x1050 Resolution (White) Review

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(More customer reviews)I use this product with a Vista x64 service pack 1 operating system on a Toshiba laptop. The product does have x64 bit drivers on the download site. Good news for those of us that have 64-bit systems; it also ships with 32-bit drivers. I use it as a third screen for my laptop. The first is the LCD on the laptop, the second comes from the laptop output, and the third is this USB device. It works great for word processing, spreadsheets, browsing the web, etc. However, you DO NOT want to use it with videos. The screen may not refresh at all with videos. I was watching a recorded slide presentation and although the speaker kept talking the slide never changed. As soon as a move the presentation video to another monitor, everything worked fine. Also, some rapidly changing content, like animations in web pages, operating system installation, etc. probably won't work well. So, this is really for productivity applications - scrolling through a Word document or Excel spreadsheet works just fine. Just don't expect to use it for video games, videos, animations, and sometimes if you have a lot on the screen, you can get some static display. Obviously wouldn't be good for watching the stock exchange or real-time data like that.

Update 2009.4.07 - Doesn't work on Windows 7 Beta very well. EVGA says they don't officially support Windows 7 yet, so you shouldn't expect that it will work at all. I was able to get it to actually display an image by using the Vista driver, but the mouse point often froze on the screen. I downloaded a new driver from EVGA and that one wouldn't let you install on Windows 7. I think they know there are problems. So, I have stopped using it until the Windows 7 driver comes out. Still, it worked well on Vista, with those cautions I wrote about previously.

I am back to using my Matrox Dual Head 2 Go adapter Matrox D2GA2AIF DualHead2Go Analog Edition Display Duplexer for PC and Mac. That is working well, but since it takes multiple monitors and makes them a single monitor, it isn't the same as being able to have three totally independent displays - like I could with the EVGA. Also, there is a new model EVGA 100-U2-UV16-A1 UV Plus USB VGA Adapter for Multiple Displays Supporting Up to 1600x1200 Resolution (Black). Right now the reviews look pretty good. You might want to check that out.

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EVGA UV Plus+ USB VGA Adapter - USB 2.0 to VGA output - 1400x900@60Hz, DVI Support, VGA Support, DDR Memory, Portable, Windows XP/Vista/Vista Aero Compatible