They didn't want to pay the royalty to phillips.
On 6/18/2014 6:55 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
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.
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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.
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