Has anyone tried a similar product to this screen expander?

Or does anyone have an option on if these are quality?

This honestly looks like a life saver while On the road.

https://www.thexebec.com/

 

I’ve never tried it, but it sure does look nifty. Use that bad boy on the train and you’ll be the envy of many a commuter.

 

And the enemy of the two people sitting around you.

 

Man, this would kinda make labwork easier. Two extra screens would mean I wouldn't need paper copies of testing directives and methods, and just use electronic which I don't find feasible with one screen and our electronic notebook. Though I would never spend that much on a work thing.

 

According to the specs, that's 20 Wh extra drain for your batteries. Those USB-C connectors will be running hot and battery life will drop to about 1/3 of the laptop's original. Probably more for a desktop-replacement laptop than for a travelling one.

 

I work a lot spread sheets etc, so the ability to have one open on one screen and type in another would literally be dozens of hours of better productivity a month.

Even in a hotel room or a cafe corner, flip out the screens, light weight travel mouse and its a godsend.

But good points about battery! I imagine you would need to be plugged in almost nonstop.

 

I'd consider adding an independently powered USB hub as well. With some exceptions, like rugged laptops, USB ports in laptops are not designed for sustained heavy load, since there isn't a high demand for it. Even if the installed ports comply nominally with the USB-C specification, manufacturers cut corners to reduce footprint and cost, and in time their current drivers may bust, leaving them unusable even for lighter devices. It happened to me with an audio interface that used a lot of current to provide phantom power to condenser mics.

Portability puts very tight requirements on equipment that are not so easy to circumvent.

 

Any chance you ended up buying it? I'm gonna be working away from home for a while, and having at least a second screen would be quite nice.

 

I put a ticket into our IT Department. The nerds there said it looks fine and will order a batch for the remote work team next cycle. They just warned about battery and screen position being more important than before.