3 Mirrored Displays from current mac mini

[Hellhammer]

These USB adapters have their own GPU, not a very fast one though.

The reason why these solutions won't support flawless video playback or a non choppy desktop behaviour is due to the limitations of the USB interface.

USB 2.0 has a maximum throughput of 480Mbit/s. Single link DVI already makes 3.96Gbit/s.

USB 3.0 would be more than sufficient for this (4.8Gbit/s) so we might see very capable USB solutions for additional displays in the future (at least for displays <= 1920x1200).

What is an average bitrate of 1080p movie? I guess it's around 10Mbit/s? HDMI has maximum of 10.2Gbit/s so USB is nowhere near real display connectors.

I really hope LightPeak is the future. It could be used everywhere! In displays, HDs, speakers etc...

 

[DoFoT9]

These USB adapters have their own GPU, not a very fast one though.

The reason why these solutions won't support flawless video playback or a non choppy desktop behaviour is due to the limitations of the USB interface.

USB 2.0 has a maximum throughput of 480Mbit/s. Single link DVI already makes 3.96Gbit/s.

USB 3.0 would be more than sufficient for this (4.8Gbit/s) so we might see very capable USB solutions for additional displays in the future (at least for displays <= 1920x1200).

yes having a faster data link would fix it - but is the link even the problem? how do we know that it isnt with the actual GPU device itself?

hellhammer: average bitrate is 40mb/s of 1080P. or 5MB/s. pretty sure thats nothiing compared to the ~40MB/s USB 2.0 can currently do.

i also cannot wait for LP!