Usb 3.0 as primary monitor

[maadamos61]

Hello. I am a newbie to this forum. I want to do an internet cafe in a rural area of Africa and we plan on using solar energy for for electricity generation. I am therefore hoping to use one of the new low powered USB-powered monitors as my primary video monitor. I plan on using nettops powered with either Intel Atoms, or AMD C60, processors (low powered). What do I have to do to achieve this? Any help will be appreciated. Any suggestions on the nettop PC or the usb monitors will be welcome and appreciated. Thanks. 🙂

 

[Rifter]

LMAO

wrong forum buddy.

 

[wirednuts]

dont make fun of virgins

original poster, the amd e350 or e450 processers, in my opinion, are a huge bang for buck. and they are low power too. find a netbook you like, that is in your price range with that processor.

and any usb monitor will work. just find one you like thats in your price range.

you can post links to what you think you want here, and we can give you our opinion if we think its good or not.

 

[Ken g6]

That's interesting. I did not know you could power a monitor over USB. My first Google hit is a USB 2.0 22" monitor! Power and signal over USB 2.0! I wonder what the refresh rate is?

I also wonder if one computer (probably more powerful than a netbook) running Linux could power multiple X sessions this way? That way you could have more than one keyboard, mouse, and monitor centered around and running from one central computer. Edit: Apparently this is called a multiseat configuration.

 

[mfenn]

Can you use one of these things as a primary monitor in Windows? I'm sure you can rig something up for Linux (Linux can do anything), so if you don't want to use Windows in the first place, I guess it is a no brainer.

Wait, why don't you just get a cheap laptop and lock it to a table? That'll cost less and probably use less power as well.