ASUS MB168B 15.6 Inch Portable USB Monitor, 1366x768, TN

As I often work away from home and often on client site, I miss the benefit of working from home where I have three monitor setup. I therefore decided to buy a lightweight portable monitor that I could carry around between sites quite easily, adding minimum weight to my already packed rucksack. This monitor was discounted as a warehouse deal and at the price it was ideal. The screen is larger than my laptop’s but the resolution is exactly the same. Although a higher resolution would have been better for my needs I couldn’t face paying 60% more in price.The monitor normally comes with a standard usb male-B cable, driver disc and protective cover. The monitor is actually quite light and weighs in at a feather-like 800g. The screen connects very easily and my Windows laptop detected and loaded the drivers without needing the CD.PROS- lightweight design- no flickering or shadowing- decent resolution- comes with 3year warranty- sturdy case supplied with monitor- great price- easy to connect and extend desktop- large size screenCONS- resolution could have been better- requires USB male-B cable to connect (missing from box)- feels a bit flimsy- can be difficult to get screen into protective caseOverall this portable monitor works brilliantly and being so light is easy to carry around. Highly recommended.*** Please could you click Yes if my review has helped you in any way ***

This is a very cool gadget with a couple of weird niggles that required some Googling/squinting to work out. But work them out I did, and write them down I shall. I'm no hero. I'm just a man with dreams of a portable monitor with adjustable brightness and colour contrast settings that doesn't keep falling over backwards.First off: the case. It's free (yay!). It's solid (yay!). It collapsed once because I didn't read the instructions properly (my fault!). It's basically one of those folding sheet cases that protects the monitor when you store it and then can be origami-ed into a stand. The angle isn't adjustable (boo!), but the thing that made it fall over was the stiff fabric tab that looks like it's flush against the inside of the case. It isn't. You have to get a nail under it and bend it up, as that's the bit that holds the monitor upright and stops it sliding about. If you don't, it does. So do.Second: the monitor comes with a driver CD. If your laptop doesn't have a CD drive, you'll have to get the drivers from the Asus website. It's not really an issue, but it's not plug-and-play so don't go carrying it off somewhere you don't have internet without installing the drivers first.Third: Windows 10. This monitor will work with Windows 10. Grudgingly. There's a brightness rocker switch on the left side of the monitor (in landscape mode) that didn't seem to do anything, and the screen by default starts off a bit dim. I had a look through some forum threads and it's something that seems to be a problem with Windows 10 and some versions of MacOS. I didn't find a way to get the switch working, but there's a bit of freeware called ScreenBright that lets you set the colour saturation and brightness (on Windows, at least). On launch there's a weird warning that using ScreenBright may invalidate your screen's warranty. I don't know if it does or why it should, but it does fix the brightness problem. Live dangerously. Change your brightness and contrast settings. Choose life.

My first impression of this product when I saw it on Amazon were maybe 3 stars. The actual product as far overcome that expectation.Packaging : Very, very good packaging, if anything overkill. Came inside 3 boxes: a paper padded Amazon box, a blank cardboard box with some foam, presumably from Asus, and then the Product box, with fitted foam around the Panel itself. All I could have asked for and more, and the product arrived in perfect shape.Aesthetics: The bezel of the panel is just plain plastic (ABS I think) with an Asus logo on the bottom centre, so from the front the monitor is nothing to write home about, but turn around the back and it is a large silver brushed panel with a larger Asus logo, dressed to impress on the table of any conference room. The product is also extremely thin, making it look even better. The buttons on the side also look good, with a small LED in the power button to show the status.Panel Quality: At £120 the panel was never going to be anything jaw-dropping, so I was pleasantly surprised when I first turned on the display. Although the panel is not 1080p like the laptop screen it is accompanying, it is not extremely noticeable, and the colour depth more than makes up for it. Contrary to my expectations, this panel was not plagued by the usual washed-out blueish colours that most cheap laptop screens have. This makes it great for doing photo editing on the move, when away from my 24inch monitor, as my laptop screen tends to cause me to over-saturate colours. The only qualm I have is poor viewing angles, as discolouration happens very quickly, so I would not recommend for sharing movies or for a slideshow, however this should not matter in a reasonably static desk environment.Functionality: The first time set up of the drivers was quite simple. I would recommend downloading the drivers from Asus' website directly, as the CD which came in the box was probably out of date, and didn't support windows 10. They can be found easily by searching the product name followed by 'drivers' on Google. On install and restart later and the product was working perfectly, acting as a third display, along with my laptop screen, and 24inch Acer monitor. The brightness button on the side works very well as well, giving a good range of brightness for any room, and a satisfying brightness in direct sunlight. The auto-rotate is also a good feature, although slightly laggy.I enjoy using this product whilst playing resource-intensive games on my primary display, as the internal displaylink card allows me to run skype, steam messenger, or VLC media player, without dropping the frame rate of the game I am playing.The case that comes with the product is very sleek, however takes up a lot of desk space. I invested in a very cheap tablet stand to use at my desk, which is compact enough to fit in my laptop bag and take with me.Overall this product is definitely worth a buy I you need that extra desktop space on the go, or if you are looking at a smaller monitor for a gaming setup, without slowing down your gameplay.