[Nergol]

Hi, all;

So I'm considering buying one of the Mimo USB monitors seen here as a second monitor for my first-gen Intel Macbook running Snow Leopard. The ones I'm looking at are the non-touchscreen ones. One of the primary things I'd want to do with it is to play video files using VLC while I do other things on my main screen.

Looking at Mimo's Mac FAQ page, I find this among the known issues:

"VLC player crashes when DisplayLink display is primary (2528)"

So... "primary" for what? For my Mac? For VLC? Does that mean that I can't watch a file in VLC on the thing while using it as a secondary monitor?

Does anyone know? Has anyone used one of these things and tried this?

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Big Mac]

From the way the issue is worded, it sounds like if you choose to make the DisplayLink display the primary display of the OS (the display with the menu bar), VLC will crash. As a secondary monitor that bug shouldn't be an issue, but I have no personal experience with those products (this being the first time I've heard of that company).