8 ms·
I’m unlikely to buy a foldable laptop, but a foldable monitor while traveling sounds kinda nice. I’m working from a hotel right now, so I can easily imagine it.
by byteflip 4y ago
I’m unlikely to buy a foldable laptop, but a foldable monitor while traveling sounds kinda nice. I’m working from a hotel right now, so I can easily imagine it. Folding flat would offer protection from scratches in a bag/backpack and take less space. Would be hard pressed to fit a 17” portable monitor in my bag, but if it folds in half that’s more tenable!
- darkteflon 4y agoSlightly incidental, but after years of working out of hotel rooms, I’ve found that a 15.6” 4K portable display placed on a small tripod (Arca-Swiss mount) sitting directly above the main display of my 14” Macbook has been the perfect travel setup. It’s a dual-display setup, portable (similar area to the computer itself), similar desktop area and font resolution to the native panel, and prevents you from craning your neck.
- tokamak-teapot 4y agoMind sharing which one you have please? I’d like to drop one in my laptop bag sometimes.
- Bayart 4y agoUperfect makes 4K ones. AFAIK Asus only goes to 1080p.
- Lio 4y agoI'm not the person you're asking but as Asus already make a range of portable monitors you could try one them: https://www.asus.com/Displays-Desktops/Monitors/ZenScreen/ https://www.asus.com/Displays-Desktops/Monitors/ZenScreen/
- WaitWaitWha 4y agoI have two Asus ZenScreen Go MB16AHP. Comes with built in battery and a bunch of other great features. For me, both of them stopped charging and refused to work right after warranty ran out. Now they are sitting on my shelf waiting to be cannibalized. I very much enjoyed these screens. They were response, relatively light, fit into the bag, and with their own battery, I could chug along for hours without issue. Oh the joys of getting ready for meetings in airport lounges! So, Asus portable monitors for me were great design, not so good implementation.
- darkteflon 4y agoSure, I have an Innocn PU15-PRE. Just to reiterate that a 15.6” 4K is definitely the way to go. I also tried 14” 4K and 1440p panels but - on account of the way scaling and font rendering works in MacOS - they’re a big step down. Even moreso if you’re doing anything graphically intensive - you’ll want to use non-native scaling on a 14” 4K which is expensive for the GPU. The 15.6” panel doesn’t have this problem because the “effective 1080p resolution” divides cleanly into the native 4K panel resolution. I spent ages working through this.
- localhost 4y agoHow do you mount it to a tripod? Also do you know if you can horizontally flip the image so it could be used with a teleprompter?
- darkteflon 4y agoI use [this](https://amzn.asia/d/a74Tepm https://amzn.asia/d/a74Tepm). Not sure about flipping the image but I’ve put the model number here in the thread.
- localhost 4y agoThanks! From the manual, it looks like it only has support for rotation and not the flipping.
- falcolas 4y agoYou could also move the camera to film the reflection from the 45 degree glass, if you’re looking for a home office teleprompter solution and not a live presentation version.
- localhost 4y agoYeah, it's not actually for a teleprompter - I'm using it as my zero-parallax video conferencing solution with a Canon R5 as my webcam. I'm currently using an 11" iPad Pro using the excellent Duet Display software which does the horizontal flip [1] and it works great for that. I'd like the display to be larger though, but that requires upgrading the teleprompter too and I've been toying with that hence my question about monitors that can do the horizontal flip. But I think I'm just going to mirror a 24" monitor underneath my videoconferencing setup so that I can better see presentations during meetings. [1] https://www.duetdisplay.com/ https://www.duetdisplay.com/
- sgerenser 4y agoI'm using a very similar setup for when I want to work away from my 27" 4K display but still need a second screen to be productive (e.g. doing almost anything coding-related). Like the previous poster, I set it up with the external screen directly above my laptop screen which for me is much more comfortable than trying to put it beside the laptop, and ends up at a perfect eye level. Bought this LG Gram 16" Portable display (2560x1440): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TS43YMT https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TS43YMT This portable tripod: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LGGXH1J https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LGGXH1J And this "tablet" mount that gets large enough to fit the 16" display: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Z7Z7QZ3 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Z7Z7QZ3 Tripod/tablet mount also double as an iPad stand for video calling, etc. Everything fits easily in my fairly compact backpack along with cables, dongles, mouse, etc.
- darkteflon 4y agoIt’s great, isn’t it? Can’t imagine working any other way now when I’m away from my desk. I recently added keyboard shortcuts (using BetterTouchTool) on my left hand for moving the mouse cursor up and down between the centre of each display, as vertical mouse movements seem to be more tiresome than horizontal on account of the lie of your arm (less of an issue with the built-in trackpad).
- o_____________o 4y agoInteresting that the screen is around the same weight as a macbook pro. Is that right?
- sgerenser 4y agoThe screen I use (lg gram 16”) is lighter than even the MacBook Air. Specs say 1.48 lbs (671g) or 2.18 lbs (989g) with the folio cover on.
- charlie0 4y agoThis is exactly what I am looking for.
- liketochill 4y ago
- rattray 4y agoHow do you attach an arca-swiss mount to a monitor?
- darkteflon 4y agoI use [this](https://amzn.asia/d/a74Tepm https://amzn.asia/d/a74Tepm)
- rattray 4y agoAh thank you! Clever. A US-friendly link to a similar product is https://amzn.com/dp/B09H6QV53R https://amzn.com/dp/B09H6QV53R (I searched "arca-swiss tablet mount 300mm" to find it; there are others that only go to 230mm width for folks interested in this with smaller portable monitors). Personally I am currently experimenting with a Lenovo ThinkVision M14[0] perched (a little precariously) atop a Roost V3 Laptop Stand[1], which is a lower-quality but lighter, more minimal setup than what you describe. When I'm on Zoom call, which is often, I can move the laptop onto the stand for a better camera angle and put the external monitor beneath. I'm not doing graphics work and I find the 60Hz, 1920x1080, usbc-on-both-sides monitor sufficient for my purposes (much, much better than an old asus one which was 30Hz or less, and laggy). [0] https://amzn.com/dp/B07YX5NKK2 https://amzn.com/dp/B07YX5NKK2 [1] https://amzn.com/dp/B01C9KG8IG https://amzn.com/dp/B01C9KG8IG
- alexitosrv 4y agoI agree. This has been my setup as of lately https://imgur.com/a/1CjpS8G https://imgur.com/a/1CjpS8G . Portable 4k screen (the glare in the photo is not really visible in front). . Custom mount for the laptop and a . Wireless thinkpad keyboard with a trackpoint (which I love). The cabling management has improved now, but this setup gives plenty of screen real estate, both displays are touch, and in comparison with a tablet where the applications context is lost the majority of time, here I can be more productive and is a joy to work with it.
- roflyear 4y agowhat do you do for work?
- alexitosrv 4y agoI work as an infra architect at an MSP, so mostly Teams calls and Visio (sometimes even MS Whiteboard). and heavy web browsing.
- mncharity 4y ago> Custom mount for the laptop [...] I've done a similar setup, but for a minimalist mount, used two 12in rulers, and gaff tape to make a hinge, a strap connecting the other ends, and a stop on one of them. So a heavy thinkpad sits on the desk ruler, leaning back against the other and the strap, with the bottom keyboard edge sitting between strap and stop. It's fragile, and I fear someday there will be a bump, crash, and sadness, but it's light, compact, and easily recreated.
- AdrianEGraphene 4y agoI see you still have working feet for the trackpoint keyboard... I've broken the foot on 3 of those.... any secrets you've got to preventing that?
- twobitshifter 4y agoapple sidecar gives you this if you buy the ipad.
- alistairSH 4y agoNot nearly 17", but I've found my iPad Pro makes a reasonable second monitor when traveling. It isn't really large enough to want to do work on it - I keep those windows on the main laptop monitor - but it works as a place to drop email/Slack/misc other things.
- Terretta 4y agoI advocate this as well. It’s superior in almost all ways to the portable screens of which I’ve tried many, and you also have an iPad, ideally with cellular chip. :-) On many short trips you can leave the actual laptop at home.
- CivBase 4y agoEven with smaller portable monitors, I'd feel a lot more comfortable having one in my backpack if the screen wasn't exposed.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoFWIW, when I used the Asus portable monitors they came with a folio case that covered the screen when it was in a big and was used to stand the display up at different angles
- bpye 4y agoAgreed, that’s what makes this kind of interesting personally. I tend to prefer smaller devices for travel, being able to get both that and more screen real estate would be pretty cool.
- nomel 4y agoI think XR will end up being a viable, portable, alternative before folding screens become widely available.