DisplayLink Releases Updated Windows Driver (version 5.5)

Posted on 01. Oct, 2010 by in Windows

DisplayLink has released an updated Windows Driver (version 5.5, dated September 29th, 2010), which is available for download here.

This update is compatible with all of Plugable’s products with DisplayLink-based USB graphics.

This is a must-have update for all with machines with ATI/AMD as their primary graphics controller, as it works around serious issues introduced with ATI’s Catalyst™ 10.8 driver release. ATI’s driver was released just recently (August). ATI has not pushed this update widely, but over time we expect more ATI/AMD users will need to make sure they’re running DisplayLink driver version 5.5 or later.

In terms of new features, DisplayLink’s version 5.5 driver also includes:

  • Windows Presentation Foundation compatibility on Windows XP — a big deal for XP users who use Visual Studio 2010 or any of the other (limited but growing) list of applications built on WPF
  • ‘Fit to TV’ functionality for HDMI TVs
  • GUI menu enhancements
  • Some improvements in motion video playback performance on Windows 7 and Vista

See the 5.5 release notes for details.

DisplayLink Releases New Mac Driver Beta (1.6 Beta 3)

Posted on 29. Sep, 2010 by in UGA-2K-A

DisplayLink has released an updated beta of their version 1.6 Mac drivers, available for download from their Mac forums. This is the first update in quite a few months, so it’s a good sign for Mac users.

The main feature of the new beta are fixes for some problems experienced on resume from sleep.

In terms of our general recommendations for Macs and Plugable’s DisplayLink-based products, we still want to emphasize that all Mac drivers are of a beta/pre-release level of quality compared to the Windows products. They still 1) are incompatible with recent MacBook Pros with switching graphics 2) disable the USB ethernet interface on docking stations like our Plugable dock. 3) are too frequently broken or fixed by Apple’s OS X updates — Apple often seems to be changing driver interfaces in subtle ways that affect USB graphics.

We expect and hope that support from both DisplayLink and Apple will improve in time, and we’ll be able to recommend the combination without qualification. Until then, it’s good to see releases like this for incremental progress.

Happy Birthday Plugable!

Posted on 17. Sep, 2010 by in Windows

Plugable Technologies brought its first product to market a year ago this month.

We’re humbled by and extremely appreciative of the more than 2000 customers we’ve served since then. Thank you!!

As a way of celebrating, we’re dropping prices on two of our lead products, just for a limited time from now until September 30th.

The Plugable UGA-2K-A (DisplayLink 195 chipset), which was previously $69.95 is now $57.20.
The Plugable UGA-125 (DisplayLink 125 chipset), which was previously $49.95 is now $46.20.

Thank you so much for your support of Plugable. We’re in this for you, and we very much appreciate your going out of your way to choose our products!

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