Comments on: Use a laptop LCD to extend your desktop display

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:17:19 +0000

You can also use MaxiVista to extend your main PC’s desktop to a laptop.

Michael

By: laptop repair

laptop repair — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:07:35 +0000

The screen works great on xp.I installed vista then uninstalled it.Vista is such a dissapointment. MS should give a credit to everyone who still has a receipt of Vista from wherever they purchased it. I hope i get a refund.

By: Kabuki

Kabuki — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:22:39 +0000

#7, Agreed. Why are all of the LCD driver boards so expensive?

By: biz

biz — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:48:49 +0000

its not that it’s unbelievable, its informative and cool as shit

By: SteveN0xxxxist

SteveN0xxxxist — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:07:07 +0000

Of course you can reuse just the display; but the WiFi is a nice feature. You could use minimal circuitry to feed a second (third…) DMI or SVGA or HDMI cable off your PC in and thus get a second display, but cables require so much high-grade plastic it is a serious waste. Adding a CPU at least capable of full-resolution h.264 playback and otherwise managing a limited wireless data rate gets you some pretty nice independent functionality.
1.2GHz is not a lot of power in itself (not bad for 4 64bit cores, but 1.2GHz P-IIIs seem stingy), but if you can use a DSP or a video-specific chip of course you can save power and battery bulk.
Better yet, doll up the case nicely, add some touchscreen and 3-axis accelerometer (or gravity sensor chip) components plus compact mics and speakers, and claim to have the Ghetto iPhone with XBASS. “Dates to Steve Jobs’ Breakdancing Days,” you’ll say sagely….

By: Vladsinger

Vladsinger — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:15:57 +0000

Wow. There’s absolutely no way just to cheaply reuse the screen itself? That’s unfortunate, because using a 1.2GHz processor to power a 14.1 inch auxiliary display seems rather like overkill…

By: rockrapdude

rockrapdude — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:00:00 +0000

kewl mod of a cheap lcd screen

http://metku.net/index.html?path=mods/transtft/index_eng

By: ed3

ed3 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:40:44 +0000

Or there's Win2VNC/X2VNC...

http://fredrik.hubbe.net/win2vnc.html

By: agent420

agent420 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:28:47 +0000

I think the title is misleading and should instead simply read ‘extend your desktop display’… while it is a clever repackaging, this is nothing more than a networked display that could be accomplished with any type of pc.

By: handl3r

handl3r — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 07:12:58 +0000

anyone know if there is a way to do this with a palm?

By: WeblionX

WeblionX — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:33:28 +0000

Dang, and here I was hoping for some way to use the working LCD of an otherwise broken laptop. Guess I’ll still have to purchase a monitor for my workshop.

By: ivan256

ivan256 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:12:07 +0000

#1, that looks like a reproduction of an old DEC program called x2x from ages ago. Personally I’m not sure how I could have lived without it for the last, oh… decade.

I’m surprised that people would find something like that so unbelievable that they’d need a video…

By: ThoughtFix

ThoughtFix — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:12:57 +0000

Want to see a video of Synergy?
http://www.ultramobilegeek.com/2006/08/umpc-synergy.html