AOC 16" USB Monitor (Refurbished)
- Model: E1649Fwu
- Model: E1659Fwu
- 16" 16:9 1366x768 display connects via USB
- USB-powered, too
- Only 1.4" thick for the cheaper one, 0.9" thick for the other one
- The more expensive model is USB 3.0; the other one is USB 2.0
- We don’t think it makes much difference performance-wise but there you go
Holy crap, they make portable USB monitors?
Why weren’t we told? We like to think we’re reasonably aware of what’s going on in consumer electronics. You know, since that knowledge is basically the only thing that keeps us out of the free soup line. But somehow, the very existence of portable USB monitors slipped right by us.
It’s especially weird because we would have been all over these. We’ve all suffered the jarring discomfort of going from our nice, spacious multi-monitor desk setup to the impossibly cramped confines of a single laptop display on the road. We’ve all had those moments when we’re this close to dumping our laptops in the nearest trash can, walking away from our careers, and descending headlong into a twilight world of pure sensual debauchery, a short, violent life of overindulgence in every degradation save one: never, ever having to work on a little laptop screen again.
OK, that last one might just be us.
The point is, USB monitors! Throw one of these slim 1366x768 babies in your backpack or suitcase. Go somewhere. Plug it into your laptop - nope, no additional power cable, it’s even USB-powered. Double your screen real estate just like that. Or, dare we suggest, triple it by buying two?
With one of these by our side on our next work trip, our laptop straitjacket is a thing of the past. We’ll be happy upright citizens once again. We’ll find the strength to resist the siren song of squalid self-indulgence. For another month or two, anyway.
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