Samsung SyncMaster 940UX monitor comes with USB

Samsung will be launching a brand new 19″ LCD display, called the SyncMaster 940UX. What’s so special about it? Well, it’s a wide screen monitor with simplified connectivity, cause it won’t use VGA or DVA connectors, no, it will only work with the popular USB. The display is due te be presented at CeBIT next month and released on the market in May.

I’ve seen screens that used USB connections before, but they were not LCD’s. Here, we’re talking about a real 19″ TFT. And think how cool is that. You won’t need additional graphic boards to connect multiple monitors, as long as you have free USB ports. More, everyone knows how to plug in an USB cable, while the VGA or DVI are a little more trickier: you have to be careful, cause you don’t want to wreck any of those tiny pins there. So, for those of you who have nothing in common with technology, the Samsung SyncMaster 940UX would be a great asset.

Samsung SyncMaster 940UX dubs VGA and DVI in favour of the USB connector

Besides the practical advantages of this display, are there any technical ones? We can’t really answer this question right now, cause Samsung told us nothing about that yet. We don’t know how will the video data be able to “squeeze” through that narrow USB cable, but we do know something: video processing will be done on the CPU. That’s pretty odd, cause multiple monitors could involve significant use of the CPU, that would mean lower performance, cause the CPU is simply not designed to do the job of an ordinary GPU (huge numbers of floating point operations). Samsung claims though that up to 5 monitors could be connected to a single CPU, without a significant performance loss.

Of course, a lot of question remained unanswered, but be patient, CeBIT is coming in just a month’s time, and hopefully everything will be answered then. We’ll keep you in touch with the Samsung SyncMaster 940UX subject.

Source: Everything USB