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A second look at the 940UX
PCW was contacted from multiple representatives at Samsung when we published our 940UX review claiming the driver we had used, which it had supplied, was out of date.
The new driver, we were promised, offered much higher video performance and support for 3D in Vista.
The software has definitely improved with the inclusion of an excellent taskbar utility that can rotate or mirror the display over USB.
Using the display in portrait mode is a disappoint though, since its viewing angle from the left (or bottom when rotated normally) is very poor – barely 60 degrees or so before contrast peters out rapidly.
Otherwise we've seen no video quality improvement and the displaylinkmanager.exe service still hogs 30-40 per cent of CPU time during 640x480 video playback on a 3GHz Pentium 4 system with 1GB Ram.
Samsung says the latest drivers (4.3 available from www.displaylink.com and not www.samsung.com) now let you use the Aero interface, but at the time of writing we couldn't get the latest drivers to work on our Vista machine at all. DirectX applications should be supported in the second half of 2008 according to Samsung.
So overall, with the £70 price premium over regular 19in monitors, the 940UX remains a three star product.
Posted by Emil Larsen on January 28, 2008 | Permalink
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