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Notebooks.com “how would you use it” contest

Posted on 12. Mar, 2010 by Bernie Thompson in Windows

Notebooks.com is running a contest – “Tell us how you would use a DisplayLink USB video adapter.” Add your thoughts to the comments on their post, and they’ll enter you into a drawing that will be held after March 19th.

While those free adapters aren’t quite as nice as ours here at Plugable, but they’d still be a fun win.

And at the post there, you can get an idea what interesting things other people are doing with their USB-attached displays.

Plugable’s USB 2.0 Graphics Adapter (DisplayLink DL-195)

Posted on 07. Mar, 2010 by Bernie Thompson in UGA-2K-A

Plugable’s new USB 2.0 Graphics Adapter is now available on Amazon.com.

The DisplayLink DL-195 chip inside this adapter is the best high-end chip out there for adding a display over USB. And because it pushes USB 2.0 and analog VGA to their limits, it isn’t likely to be beaten by any other chip in the USB 2.0 generation.

For this new adapter from Plugable, we wanted to offer that high-end choice, and also make sure that everything else about the adapter package itself meets or beats any alternative out there.

• The Plugable UGA-2K-A includes a DVI->HDMI adapter (in addition to the usual DVI->VGA adapter)
• The latest drivers are available on Windows Update and from displaylink.com
• Open source available, so there’ll be new software written for this device, even years from now
• Public problem reporting and support, so you can always get the full story about the product
• Amazon’s fast shipping and A-to-z guarantee on your purchase

In future posts, we’ll cover some of the cool things this device can do by enabling many displays on any PC (things like create the ultimate day-traders’ war-room, with many displays built around a single laptop).

Until then, you can read more about the product launch in the stuffily worded press release here. And more on the product page at http://plugable.com/products/uga-2k-a/.

Win7 Plug and Play with the UGA-2K-A

Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Bernie Thompson in Windows

Attach your new Plugable USB graphics adapter to a Win 7 PC. What happens?

.. driver is found and downloaded from Microsoft’s Windows Update system…

… and a DisplayLink EULA and a bunch of screen flashes later …

Windows 7 and a network connection takes care of it. No driver disk needed.