🚀 Elevate Your Workspace with Multi-Display Magic!
The ClimaxDigital CUH350D USB 3.0 to DVI, VGA, HDMI Adapter is a powerful external video card that allows you to connect multiple monitors effortlessly. Featuring the award-winning DisplayLink DL-3500 chipset, it supports high resolutions up to 2048x1152 and is compatible with a wide range of operating systems, making it the perfect solution for professionals looking to enhance their productivity.
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Excellent value to add an extra monitor, works with Mac OSX
Like many Mac users, I was looking for an economical solution to connect up a spare 3rd monitor to my iMac. I'm running a 27" iMac i7 with Sierra OSX and use a 24" Dell monitor via DisplayPort for my secondary display. This serves me perfectly but as a musician, I wanted to place a smaller 4:3 Dell monitor away from these and behind my electronic piano for displaying tabs, scores etc. I wanted this screen to be an extension of my existing setup, but not necessarily mirrored from either existing screen. I looked at whether I could use another DisplayPort device, but only having 2 thunderbolt sockets with one tied up to an external hard drive and the DisplayPort 24" Dell and the other going to a firewire adaptor for my audio interface, any solution would have been expensive requiring some form of thunderbolt hub. Even then I had no idea if that would work. I hadn't considered using a USB video adaptor as, although I use these in work as a laptop docking station, I didn't think they existed for OSX. Anyway after some research this ClimaxDigital device seemed to tick all the boxes for compatibility, had DVI output that would work with my screen (although it comes supplied with VGA and HDMI adaptors) but most of all the price was considerably lower than competitor products.Upon receipt I was pleasantly supplied that the adaptor is a lot smaller than I expected from the photo. After downloading the latest drives from the DisplayLink website for OSX, I installed these without any problems and rebooted my iMac. I plugged my spare Dell monitor into the ClimaxDigital unit using a DVI to DVI cable and using the supplied USB cable, plugged the unit into a spare USB port on my iMac. Immediately I was greeted with an extended display, nothing to configure or change! After tweaking the gamma/colour correction on OSX for my new screen, I adjusted a few settings to overcome a few minor issues currently with OSX sierra. Whilst these aren't any problem for me, turning off the transparency of menu items helped improve the visibility of the menu bar on the new screen. I was really impressed at the speed and performance of this new device, I wasn't expected to be able to view video or anything quick changing on the extended screen via USB but Quicktime plays movies perfectly on it! Logic pro X also seems fine and I can now drag my mixer, main working screen or any of the plugins to the new screen. The only issues I've come across so far are when you change the wallpaper image for the desktop, the thumbnail images don't display correctly on the new screen - not a problem though as you can drag the settings to another screen to change them. The wallpaper itself is fine. Also VLC media player had issues displaying video on the USB screen, however as said Quicktime works fine. Overall I am really impressed at this inexpensive solution to extend my setup to now 3 desktops! I am looking forward to DisplayLink improving their drives with time and maybe addressing any minor issues with Sierra, but so far everything works great for me! I would definitely recommend this product. Shame it doesn't appear to work with my Yamaha Montage keyboard via USB (I've read that some adaptors do work and mirror the LCD) but not a deal breaker. I haven't tried it with Windows but as it uses genuine DisplayLink drivers I see no reason there would be any problems. DisplayLink have a good reputation when it comes to this technology and this ClimaxDigital unit is a great value unit! As mentioned you get adaptors includes for HDMI or VGA output, it's a great way to add another screen to a computer without using the existing VGA/HDMI output and brilliant if you want more than 2 screens! Might get another one and see if I can add a fourth monitor!
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It's pretty good - not perfect. Works on Mac OS
I'm using this device to run an extra monitor from my Macbook pro, with Mountain lion OS.I need the thunderbolt/mini port drive on my mac for my thunderbolt hard drive, so can't use that drive and an extra monitor. (They use the same socket) . So I was looking for a device that could utilise a USB port.This does the job. When it comes to video and editing work however, it's not that ideal. See belowFor Mountain Lion I had to download a driver from this site [...]The driver may well have come on the CD in the box but the CD is a small one in diameter and so can't be used on a mac CD/DVD drive.The other problem I had was that the box is a little chunky, with attendant plugs it was about 10 inches long. It was too long to plug into my DVI slot in my monitor. (The slots are angled vertically and I didn't have enough clearance space). An extra lead helped with this problem.It then sprang into life once I had the new driver. However, I tend to use my large monitor for video editing. There is a fractional time lag. It's only small but can make the video appear to be out of synch slightly. Occasionally it can cause other issues with Final Cut Pro X.(For FCPX users, I simply select the macbook screen as the main viewer and the large extra monitor via this device, as the control panel, all is then OK). I appreciate I may be asking too much of this device. But as a USB option for a monitor, I think it's excellent and good value
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Works with Yosemite on Non-Retina Macbook (but don't try to run Crysis)
Bought this to work with my 2012 Macbook Pro (non retina), running Yosemite 10.10.2, so that I could drive an additional external screen.Before plugging it in for the first time I installed latest version of the Mac DisplayLink drivers (from here: http://www.displaylink.com/support/mac_downloads.php). When I plugged the device in it took a few seconds to get going - apparently the DisplayLive drivers do a firmware upgrade on the device the first time it connects.After that the screen popped into life and 'just works'. It looks great and under general browser use works fine.To test it under load I found this site: http://haxiomic.github.io/GPU-Fluid-Experiments/html5/The page worked but had a noticeable flicker. Also, my 'window server' process jumped to 100% and the macbook fans whirred like mad. Moved the browser to my other external display (connected via display port) and the flicker went away and the CPU dropped to nothing. This is what I'd expect; the CPU is having to do the work because you can't run the OpenGL with the device.I also tried it with HD video (Avengers 2 trailer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmeOjFno6Do). It coped well I thought; I ran it full screen at 1920 and there was no flicker. CPU went up to 70% and the fans did kick in but not too madly.So: Don't buy it for games, but other than that it's great. Copes with HD video and works well for development, word, browser, email etc.
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