Unclutter Your Laptop Display with Dual/Third Screen Viewing Ability
New USB Port Replicator adds seamless second or third screen viewing capability without video cards, one-step peripheral hookup including VGA support
(PRWEB) June 21, 2005 -- For too long, mobile laptop users with data, graphic, or multitask intensive
applications have struggled to make sense of their cluttered, undersized
computer monitor. They’ve wasted time adjusting and moving numerous windows and
tool bars. In the office, they’ve faced the headache of reconnecting their
laptops to numerous computer peripherals such as printers, mice, monitors,
digital cameras, and network connections.
Until now, products designed to
address these problems have never been fully satisfactory. Although high-end
video cards allow users to add external monitors, it’s challenging to replace
the notebook computer’s video card. Proprietary docking stations, designed for
easy peripheral hook up, work only with a specific laptap model. And most USB
port replicators, while non-proprietary, don’t function with a Video Graphics
Array (VGA) connector - the connector between the PC and desktop
monitor.
Fortunately for mobile computing users in need of seamless
multi-screen viewing and easy one-step peripheral hook-up, the new UniXpress USB
Port Replicator from Addlogix of Irvine, Calif. offers these
abilities.
“UniXpress bridges the worlds of VGA, USB, and non-USB
computer peripherals to the notebook with a single cable,” says Matthew Chang,
Addlogix Marketing Manager. “For the first time, users can achieve 1280 x 1024
resolution via a USB connection from their laptop to a monitor or even use a
third screen without adding a video card.”
Mobile computing users simply
connect peripherals such as VGA display, Ethernet, speakers, and printers to
UniXpress, which works on any Windows-based notebook or PC, and the peripherals interface with the
computer via a single USB cable.
Through UniXpress, users can add a
second monitor without installing video graphics cards; for computers that
already support dual displays, a third screen can be added. This means that
mobile computing users will no longer have to manipulate tiny windows and tool
bars away from the files they’re working on.
Users of applications like
Adobe Photoshop know the pain of squeezing nine toolbar windows onto the
notebook screen. Instead, with UniXpress users with dual display can comfortably
view the document with a digital image on one screen and the toolbar windows on
another, effectively doubling image size.
Alternately, they can run Word
on the notebook screen, Excel on an external monitor, and websurf on yet
another. Animators, video editors, business users, and other multi-taskers can
make use of this additional “desktop space” to increase
productivity.
UniXpress’s VGA port provides a benefit normally reserved
for high-end video graphics cards – three modes of video support:
1)
Extended mode (allows different images on each screen, with seamless ability to
drag data, items, or windows from one screen to the next as if a single
“desktop” - a real help to multi-taskers)
2) Primary mode (allows use of
a larger desktop monitor in place of the smaller laptop screen)
3)
Duplication mode (the same image appears on the notebook and second or third
computer monitor)
UniXpress is the only port replicator that supports
video resolution of 1280 x 1024, which provides better visibility on data
intensive applications than smaller resolution displays; and the only port
replicator that supports primary mode, convenient when use of a larger external
monitor is preferable to a smaller screen. Its patent pending graphics engine
also offers DVD playback on a laptop or desktop PC.
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