1) It comes as a kit. I suspect that this is an end run around Intel thunderbolt licensing and certification.
2) No instructions in the box. product: https://www.adafruit.com/products/1652 Led to a tutorial: https://learn.adafruit.com/qualia-high-res-displayport-desktop-monitor Which didn’t say anything particularly useful, but had a very subtle link at the bottom titled Assembly that looks like it’s part of a clip from an apple page. Which links to the actual instructions for assembly. 3) They use flat blade screws. WTF? Why not phillips like every civilized product? They are 4-40 so I could replace them with real screws. The ruler is to tell the different lengths of screws apart. But, the 2-56 screws are phillips, not slotted. —————————————— Overall the assembly went fairly well. The directions were pretty good. I should have read through all of the way before starting. They don’t mention needing both flat and phillips screwdrivers. I think that they’ve substituted steel for nylon screws, which is a good thing. It would be nice if there were an easy to print out version of the instructions. I ran into a couple of issues with the monitor. The first was entirely my fault in that I had USB 2 devices, like keyboard and mouse, plugged into the display, and when I unplugged my thunderbolt display, I lost mouse and keyboard, and couldn’t figure out why. The other problem, which is something that I had forgotten about is that you cannot daisy chain the monitors, so my hopes of having three monitors at home have been dashed. I’ve heard rumors of daisy chaining monitor, drive, monitor working to get multiple monitors, but I don’t have a thunderbolt drive to test with. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Overall the quality of the display is very nice. It’s definitely smaller than I’d like for doing real work, but it should be enough to do the important work of copying files off my SD card onto a hard drive. One nit of personal preference, is that I’d rather the display bezel were a matte finish rather than glossy. If they ever make this with a 15” display it’d be damn near a must have. We just did a quick test on a macbook pro as a second monitor, and it works just fine, though it’s damn small. I suspect that if I were doing photo editing on a laptop, I’d want it for holding menus and such. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
