

Of course, the thing has NEVER worked right in OS X.

Aside from the extra displays, the USB docking station also gives me headphone, mic, gigabit ethernet along with multiple USB 3.0 ports. Displaylink uses compression and unless I'm watching full screen HD video on one of the external monitors (I don't) there are no artifacts. I use a Toshiba Dynadock (USB 3.0) with my laptop, two external 1080p monitors connected. How the hell do those things work anyway? USB 2.0 does not have nearly enough continuous bandwidth to support running a display at 60 or more frames per second, and even USB 3.0 would probably struggle as well unless the display is small.ĭo they use some lossy compression? Are there visible compression artifacts? EDIT: I just did the math and apparently a 1366x768 display like the one linked in the article could theorically work over USB 2.0 without compression.ĮDIT 2: No wait my math sucks, that sums up to about 240 megaBYTES per second.
