I had written this post before I noticed in your posting below that the thought had already occurred to you. Oh well, I'll post it anyway - you know what they say, "great minds think alike"!
How about going the whole hog with the concept. I.e. A battery-powered touch-screen thin client (wireless) connected to a box running Win8? If the tech was well implemented you would have an ass-kicker of a tablet that you could use around the office/home without have to sync/administer two separate os installs. It would of course be restricted in range (not fully mobile in that sense) but I could well imagine a user case for being able to work wherever I want in the house (or at work) and not being nailed to our home-office chair or my workplace desk. You could literally take your desk-top with you to work-place meetings. Just a thought -:)
I have thought of that as well, a device that is literally nothing more than a mobile display (using WiDi) and touch input device (using wireless USB). You would have more casual and mobile access around the house. There is no reason a weak mobile CPU should be hammering away at running a cut down mobile OS and software when you have a powerful desktop in the next room.
It would even work with decently powerful laptops. You could have the laptop tucked away in your backpack or briefcase while using it with the removable display. All the computing would be done on the laptop base but the display would be totally wireless and you could carry it around. Perfect for places with little or no desk space or standing room only. It would be handy for presentations where people could connect their displays to your computer and get your display output in their hands instead of on an often awful projector in a dark cave.
I have the sneaking feeling this is what Intel has been planning all along in order to combat the tablet market. It's like getting a free tablet with every laptop purchase and it's perfect now that Win8 is on the way.
"I have the sneaking feeling this is what Intel has been planning all along in order to combat the tablet market. It's like getting a free tablet with every laptop purchase and it's perfect now that Win8 is on the way."
This is by way of reply to both your new postings. I have to say that I would be astonished if the idea had not already occurred to them and some of the more ingenious OEMs. They want to distinguish themselves by adding value? What about your home office pc + thin-client remote touch-screen bundle? "The complete flexible solution for your home office" - damn, I could write their ad-copy for them! If they were to include a dock which in turn could accept keyboard/mouse input via wireless USB with HDMI out to your front-room telly then your full song with choruses stack in your home office could be your working pc, your tablet and your front room "from-your-armchair" pc. Indeed if you ran a sort of Windows or Linux server setup (with some reasonably heavy-lifting hardware) you could in principle have a completely flexible home computing network (with separate accounts for all family members + guest account) all run around one install. Now that would simplify things at home for me as our domestic sys-admin!
Yet another thought. How about it having enough grunt to accept both touch and stylus input plus being equipped with a microphone. You install some proper voice recognition software (the latest version of Dragon Naturally Speaking perhaps) on your home-office rig and voila you have a tablet that is "the state of the bad-ass art" (if I may be permitted to recycle a favorite quote) with touch, stylus and voice input without it having to be anything other than a remote monitor. Hell, that would be a package I would be willing to pay some serious money for when we next upgrade our home-office.
Not to mention the fact that such a device would be cheap because it doesn't need so much hardware jam packed into it. You could have one waiting to be used in every room of your home and office with no need to carry something around with you.
thats the dumbest thing i've ever heard. last thing we need is another battery in our mobile devices.
i use a doublesight 9" usb screen that runs off a single USB port and works great. It's only 1024x800, but being 9", serves its job quite well holding widgets, vento, other misc tools, and occasionally a calculator/calendar when i'm typing up invoices.
by the way, I use it on a desktop, not a laptop. i prefer the low power consumption, small size, and not driving off my videocard which would impact in-game performance using an ordinary monitor. the usb monitor uses no resources when running just widgets during gameplay.
Suggest you bother to read related postings before you post yourself. If you had taken a look at what Cobalt and I were discussing you would have realised that this product had prompted an exchange concerning a related but somewhat different concept - the wireless thin client touch screen. The user case scenarios for such a device are tolerably obvious are and the thought is, IMHO, very far from "dumb".
well, you might use this as a 2nd monitor or you could use it as a small form server or desktop monitor if they offer VGA/HDMI outputs. we will order a few to set in security video server cabinets for our warehouses. power thru USB seems do-able now and the small form of these displays is very welcomed in a cabinet which is space constrained in most locations.
a USB 2.0-powered monitor that still runs off of the GPU. interesting product. perhaps they intend to do 1080p.
Poor Dustin, he writes a fair and concise review of a fledglingly niche product and then we just apply the wrong standards for our brash snap judgments.
It's a tough position for a reviewer to be in. Perhaps future articles could quickly review the fundamental limitations of this kind of product?
First paragraph of the final page: "There are other products on the market that add portable screens to your notebook (we actually have Toshiba's Mobile Monitor due in soon), but none that do it the way GeChic's solution does. Everything else uses DisplayLink; what GeChic has is something no one else does: a USB 2.0-powered monitor that still runs off of the GPU."
When will you guys have the reviews in for the HTC ONE X?? love your smartphone reviews but you do seem to take a while to get them out? perhaps the time goes to a quality review ;)
Perhaps a comparison with the HTC ONE S would be great, thanks
GeChic 1302 is one of their older models, GeChic has long upgraded their portable monitors to 1080p IPS displays with HDMi, VGA, MiniDisplay Inputs.
I would highly recommend: GeChic 1303H 13.3" IPS 1080p display. On Amazon is it much more expensive than AOC, more than $300, but remember it comes with an IPS panel (none of that cheap TN panel AOC uses) and the resolution is 1080p. I had to dish out more money for GeChic, but it was totally worth it. When displayed next to my MacBook Pro with Retina screen, the colors were almost the same- AND i could adjust color settings.
Oh and the best part- you can connect this portable monitor via HDMI to your xbox, smartphone, and everything else you can think of using HDMI
Remember this monitor could be connected to any device via HDMI, VGA. Therefore besides laptops, you can connect GeChic monitors to your smartphone, Xbox, Playstation game consoles, and even use it as a DSLR field monitor. The muti-functionality of this product is why its a bit expensive.
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dicobalt - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
1366x768Dustin Sklavos - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
Are you kidding me? Did you not see what this was? Do you understand that driving a high resolution screen increases power consumption?dicobalt - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
It's just that I can't imagine someone using this in a place where you can't plug in the laptop anyway *shrug*This Guy - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
And how much power does a spec USB socket provide? 2.5W?dicobalt - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
Perhaps a battery inside the screen (like a tablet) so it's not drawing off the laptop battery at all?FrederickL - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
I had written this post before I noticed in your posting below that the thought had already occurred to you. Oh well, I'll post it anyway - you know what they say, "great minds think alike"!How about going the whole hog with the concept. I.e. A battery-powered touch-screen thin client (wireless) connected to a box running Win8? If the tech was well implemented you would have an ass-kicker of a tablet that you could use around the office/home without have to sync/administer two separate os installs. It would of course be restricted in range (not fully mobile in that sense) but I could well imagine a user case for being able to work wherever I want in the house (or at work) and not being nailed to our home-office chair or my workplace desk. You could literally take your desk-top with you to work-place meetings. Just a thought -:)
dicobalt - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
I have thought of that as well, a device that is literally nothing more than a mobile display (using WiDi) and touch input device (using wireless USB). You would have more casual and mobile access around the house. There is no reason a weak mobile CPU should be hammering away at running a cut down mobile OS and software when you have a powerful desktop in the next room.It would even work with decently powerful laptops. You could have the laptop tucked away in your backpack or briefcase while using it with the removable display. All the computing would be done on the laptop base but the display would be totally wireless and you could carry it around. Perfect for places with little or no desk space or standing room only. It would be handy for presentations where people could connect their displays to your computer and get your display output in their hands instead of on an often awful projector in a dark cave.
I have the sneaking feeling this is what Intel has been planning all along in order to combat the tablet market. It's like getting a free tablet with every laptop purchase and it's perfect now that Win8 is on the way.
FrederickL - Monday, April 16, 2012 - link
"I have the sneaking feeling this is what Intel has been planning all along in order to combat the tablet market. It's like getting a free tablet with every laptop purchase and it's perfect now that Win8 is on the way."
This is by way of reply to both your new postings.
I have to say that I would be astonished if the idea had not already occurred to them and some of the more ingenious OEMs. They want to distinguish themselves by adding value? What about your home office pc + thin-client remote touch-screen bundle? "The complete flexible solution for your home office" - damn, I could write their ad-copy for them! If they were to include a dock which in turn could accept keyboard/mouse input via wireless USB with HDMI out to your front-room telly then your full song with choruses stack in your home office could be your working pc, your tablet and your front room "from-your-armchair" pc. Indeed if you ran a sort of Windows or Linux server setup (with some reasonably heavy-lifting hardware) you could in principle have a completely flexible home computing network (with separate accounts for all family members + guest account) all run around one install. Now that would simplify things at home for me as our domestic sys-admin!
FrederickL - Monday, April 16, 2012 - link
Yet another thought. How about it having enough grunt to accept both touch and stylus input plus being equipped with a microphone. You install some proper voice recognition software (the latest version of Dragon Naturally Speaking perhaps) on your home-office rig and voila you have a tablet that is "the state of the bad-ass art" (if I may be permitted to recycle a favorite quote) with touch, stylus and voice input without it having to be anything other than a remote monitor. Hell, that would be a package I would be willing to pay some serious money for when we next upgrade our home-office.dicobalt - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
Not to mention the fact that such a device would be cheap because it doesn't need so much hardware jam packed into it. You could have one waiting to be used in every room of your home and office with no need to carry something around with you.pensive69 - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - link
i like the idea of having something system connected in each room that is minimal and 'on'.Samus - Monday, April 16, 2012 - link
thats the dumbest thing i've ever heard. last thing we need is another battery in our mobile devices.i use a doublesight 9" usb screen that runs off a single USB port and works great. It's only 1024x800, but being 9", serves its job quite well holding widgets, vento, other misc tools, and occasionally a calculator/calendar when i'm typing up invoices.
by the way, I use it on a desktop, not a laptop. i prefer the low power consumption, small size, and not driving off my videocard which would impact in-game performance using an ordinary monitor. the usb monitor uses no resources when running just widgets during gameplay.
FrederickL - Monday, April 16, 2012 - link
Suggest you bother to read related postings before you post yourself. If you had taken a look at what Cobalt and I were discussing you would have realised that this product had prompted an exchange concerning a related but somewhat different concept - the wireless thin client touch screen. The user case scenarios for such a device are tolerably obvious are and the thought is, IMHO, very far from "dumb".FrederickL - Monday, April 16, 2012 - link
Apologies Dicobalt - spelling fail on my part. -:)
dicobalt - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
Maybe even use WiDi and put a touch screen on it?pensive69 - Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - link
well, you might use this as a 2nd monitoror
you could use it as a small form server or desktop
monitor if they offer VGA/HDMI outputs.
we will order a few to set in security video server
cabinets for our warehouses. power thru USB seems
do-able now and the small form of these displays
is very welcomed in a cabinet which is space
constrained in most locations.
a USB 2.0-powered monitor that still runs off of the GPU.
interesting product.
perhaps they intend to do 1080p.
ImSpartacus - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
Poor Dustin, he writes a fair and concise review of a fledglingly niche product and then we just apply the wrong standards for our brash snap judgments.It's a tough position for a reviewer to be in. Perhaps future articles could quickly review the fundamental limitations of this kind of product?
captcanuck - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
http://www.toshiba.ca/web/product.grp?lg=en&se...ImSpartacus - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
A larger display with a constant pixel count would increase power consumption, right?I feel like 13" is the sweet spot for a 768p display. Hell, a 12.5" display would be passable if the power consumption is better.
vegemeister - Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - link
The sweet spot for 1366x768, if one exists, is 6".JarredWalton - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
First paragraph of the final page: "There are other products on the market that add portable screens to your notebook (we actually have Toshiba's Mobile Monitor due in soon), but none that do it the way GeChic's solution does. Everything else uses DisplayLink; what GeChic has is something no one else does: a USB 2.0-powered monitor that still runs off of the GPU."french toast - Sunday, April 15, 2012 - link
When will you guys have the reviews in for the HTC ONE X?? love your smartphone reviews but you do seem to take a while to get them out? perhaps the time goes to a quality review ;)Perhaps a comparison with the HTC ONE S would be great, thanks
stephenbrooks - Monday, April 16, 2012 - link
That's a Mirror's Edge wallpaper I haven't got yet.adventurebutter - Thursday, May 14, 2015 - link
GeChic 1302 is one of their older models, GeChic has long upgraded their portable monitors to 1080p IPS displays with HDMi, VGA, MiniDisplay Inputs.I would highly recommend: GeChic 1303H 13.3" IPS 1080p display. On Amazon is it much more expensive than AOC, more than $300, but remember it comes with an IPS panel (none of that cheap TN panel AOC uses) and the resolution is 1080p. I had to dish out more money for GeChic, but it was totally worth it. When displayed next to my MacBook Pro with Retina screen, the colors were almost the same- AND i could adjust color settings.
Oh and the best part- you can connect this portable monitor via HDMI to your xbox, smartphone, and everything else you can think of using HDMI
Remember this monitor could be connected to any device via HDMI, VGA. Therefore besides laptops, you can connect GeChic monitors to your smartphone, Xbox, Playstation game consoles, and even use it as a DSLR field monitor. The muti-functionality of this product is why its a bit expensive.
You can find GeChic 1303H on Amazon here: http://amzn.to/1PFJR9U