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But all in all, IвЂ™ve found the AOCВ e1649Fwu LED USB 16вЂі Monitor a great add-on for my Gadgeteer desktop setup. IвЂ™d like to see some improvements to this device like a matte display, brightness controls and better control over the rotation feature when used with a Mac.

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So far the alpha driver is working fine except that wallpaper only shows in the top half of the display. I still had to use the Command + Option button press combo to get the rotation menu to show up. So how did I get the AOC display to rotate? I installed an Alpha version of the DisplayLink driver that is available on DisplayLinkвЂ™s site in the user forum area. After I did this, I was back in business with the iMacвЂ™s display and the AOCвЂ™s display working normally. I had to uninstall the DisplayLink driver, boot in Safe mode and then reinstall the driver. After quite a bit of Google searching and even some email exchanges with AOCвЂ™s tech support, I finally found the answer on DisplayLinkвЂ™s user forums. Whenever I would plug in the AOC, the iMac would go Blue. Even uninstalling the DisplayLink driver and reinstalling it didnвЂ™t help. But plugging the AOC back into the iMac caused the same behavior. Then I was able to click the mirror displays option to get the iMac to turn back on.

After several minutes of key clicking, I finally managed to get the Display prefs to come up on the Lenovo monitor. The iMacвЂ™s display remained Blue and did not show the mouse cursor or anything else. I was excited and picked the 90 degree rotation feature and presto change-o, the AOCвЂ™s display turned Black and my iMacвЂ™s display turned Blue. When you do that, the Display prefs will show the rotation menu. When I first tried to rotate the screen and found that it would not work, IВ conferredВ with my best friend Google and found a comment on someone elseвЂ™s review of this product where they said to hold down the Command and Option keys in the MacвЂ™s System Preferences and then click Display prefs. Getting it that way was a bit of a technical adventure though.

If you notice the image above, youвЂ™ll see that the monitor is in portrait orientation. Unfortunately, I quickly found out that feature is not available on a Mac. If you remember, I was anxious to take advantage of this monitorвЂ™s advertised automatic screen rotation feature. Watching video in a smaller window on the AOC improved video quality. I did notice some dropped frames and blocky color splotches here and there. Although the results arenвЂ™t bad, but they arenвЂ™t stellar either.

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In my opinion, this secondary monitor isnвЂ™t the best choice if you plan to use it mainly for viewing full screen video. I also watched full screen video via and even. I mainly tried watching various full screen videos through YouTube, like the Promethius trailer you see above. I tried watching some videos with the e1649Fwu to see if I would notice any problems with frame rates. This isnвЂ™t a big deal to me, but I thought IвЂ™d mention it for anyone that might want to use this monitor for Photoshop work. Regarding colors, I noticed that when looking at my website on my iMac and my website on the AOC, that the Blue background shade on AOC looks more Blue than on the iMac. Text is not quite as sharp and crisp as text on my iMacвЂ™s display, but itвЂ™s perfectly clear andВ readable. I havenвЂ™t verified this personally though as I donвЂ™t have a Windows machine to test.

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At first I thought this might be a Mac only issue, but apparently you canвЂ™t adjust the brightness under Windows either. Note, there is no way to adjust the brightness. The picture is bright and clear, with rich colors. This monitor makes a great side display to park my Hootsuite Twitter client.

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GrrrrrвЂ¦ Off to Google for a quick search and soon learned that I had to download and install a DisplayLink driver. HmmmmвЂ¦ So I inserted the included driver CD into my iMac and all I found was a Windows driver. Just the USB cable.Д«ecause the box said the AOC was plug and play for PCs and Macs, I went straight to my system design prefs and pressed the detect monitors button. ThereвЂ™s no power cord and no video cable needed. I suppose that if your computer has lower powered ports that youвЂ™ll need to use both connectors. All you do is connect one end of the mini USB cable to the connector on the monitor and one of the other ends (itвЂ™s a Y cable with 2 connectors) to a powered USB port. Cool.Д¬onnecting the monitor to your computer (in my case a 27вЂі iMac) is a no brainer. Supposedly the monitor will detect that itвЂ™s been rotated and will automatically turn the image without having to go into the video settings.

This is the orientation that I was most looking forward to using. Here we see the monitor in portrait mode.