This fucking thing!
An official Raspberry Pi monitor. It’s my third portable display. My oldest one has too high of a resolution for comfortably viewing with no scaling. It’s 14” and 1440p, way too much pixel density. If it were on Windows, or *especially* a Mac, there’d be no problem. But this is Linux, of course, and like Linux is prone to being, scaling is an absolute clusterfuck.
My second display is a 1080p 15.6” Lenovo USB-C display. This is an absolutely awesome little display with a very nice stand (no stupid leather case that will fall over the second a butterfly flaps its wings three states away. I also love how it is DisplayPort over USB-C, so I only need one cable for power and video. There are two USB-C ports, but you can choose which side you want, and you can attach your laptop’s power cable to the display, so it’ll charge your laptop in the single cable too. Brilliant!
The colour accuracy, which is important for me as I’m a photographer, does exclude it from use in that role, but this is also what my MacBook and its gorgeous display is for. The only other problem? No HDMI port. It’s USB-C only. A problem for a Raspberry Pi which doesn’t have the required connector or hardware.
So, enter player three, the Pi monitor. It has a full size HDMI port (unlike my 1440p display), which is lovely for a few reasons, namely fragility and cable and/or adapter selection. It, unlike my other display, will quite happily run off a USB-A port. In fact, it’ll run off the Pi’s USB ports, no extra power needed! However, doing this limits you to 60% brightness and 50% speaker volume. However 60% brightness is honestly plenty, and the speakers suck anyway.
Price? Not too cheap, but it’s also not unreasonable. The folding stand is rather nice, too. As for my 1440p display, well, it’s kinda surplus to my requirements now, but I will be keeping it as an emergency backup as I currently don’t have a desktop computer or associated monitor where I live. I’ve got the computer, just isn’t set up. I can fit one big display on my little study nook desk thing, but this is a later problem. I would always need something portable anyway.
Pardon the autistic waffling, but I’m quite happy with my purchase!