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Pros

I still like to look around at brick and mortar stores, but nobody caries inventory anymore. My only complaint is that shipping takes forever. My intention is to purchase another as soon as it permits to replace the other older adapter i have.

Gofanco monitor extender is higher resolution and less expensive than other display extender in same category and works. Gives me true display extension to have 3 separate monitors from my mac mini running big sur 11. If you're like me and have nvidia...  Read More

I have a visually impaired daughter and we had tried everything to get her a hookup that would work. I read other reviews that said to download the displaylink manager from the internet, ask google, easy to find and install.

This is the part that will plug into your laptop(s) bought this for my wife's mid 2012 macbookpro. All you reviewers, please provide pertinent information as to what you are working with. Macmini displays to a samsung 24 1080 monitor and the macbook p...  Read More



Cons

Using two of these for extended display monitors bogged down my 2011 27” i7 imac with 32gb of ram on samsung ssd by nearly 50%. Apparently the driver on my computer is not compatible with the adapter. If i drag a window it starts tracing and leaving c...  Read More

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Quality


Overall, i'm very happy with the product and support i received.


Highly recommended for both the product and support.


I was so ready to return this item when the following day i received an email from gofanco (i didn't even as them) with a very ...  Read More


My use for the monitors is not for gaming, but for what i need, the quality of the image is really good.

Shipping


My only complaint is that shipping takes forever.


They used the last day of the big shipping window, or a day later in my case.

Packaging/appearance


I almost never write reviews but adapters like this almost never work right out of the box.


I was still having issues after doing the driver install on the displaylink site.

Competitiveness


Needs the display manager software installed from synaptics and and the permission turned on to screen capture (displaylink tec...  Read More


The product did come with a drive installer disk, and can deliver a qhd picture across it.


I wanted to add two monitors to my (dell inspiron 15 3000 series-3585 / win10) laptop, but only had one hdmi port.

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, two, good, port and plugged.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 80% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 472 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 8 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    That said once you get the displaylink graphics driver installed this thing works like a standard monitor


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I had to make sure i was on mac os 10


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Though i needed to contact support to find the correct driver for os 10


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Before this i tried 3 other more expensive adapters that were not true display extenders but would only mirror my secondary display


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Plugged straight into the back of a kensington sd2500t hub from a dell p2419h


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Needs the display manager software installed from synaptics and and the permission turned on to screen capture displaylink technology but after that it works like a champ


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Just make sure your macbook is up to date and you should have no problem configuring the software


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

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