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This is why you think i can never admit being wrong. You want to make it a painful experience, rather than a learning or growth experience. Well, sorry, I won't consider myself wrong over a quibble unless I can learn or grow from it, you simply lack the power to hurt me. I learn and grow here all the time; if I didn't, I wouldn't bother returning to this site on a daily basis. When I'm wrong, when someone shows me that I've been wrong, I learn from that, grow from it, admit it, and - perhaps most importantly - thank whoever showed me that I was wrong for correcting my understanding.

Now, ask yourself why I'm not doing that here.

Actually, no, don't bother. I'll just explain it: neither of us are really wrong here. Well, about the subject at hand, at least. You're wrong about me supposedly lying and being unable to admit when I'm wrong, but you put yourself in that position by being unable to admit that the distinction between primary and secondary display is a mere quibble. For proof of that, go up to people you see using multiple-display computers and ask them to identify the pri.ard and secondary displays; you might be lucky and find one person who can, but most don't care. You're choosing to argue and raise objections about a trivial matter, the literal definition of quibble, yet you refuse to admit it when I put the proof right in your face. Yes, the distinction between primary a d secondary display is trivial, I just showed you how to prove it (or prove me wrong, but I know you won't put in the work, you literally never do), now the ball is in your court. Prove me wrong, show me that people give a shit about that distinction, let me learn that and I will thank you for it and admit that I was wrong. Simply telling me I'm wrong without shit to back it up is not enough; cite some goddamn proof.

If you really want that example, though... Any computer with one of these attached, really. I'll cede that it's not built in, but that's yet another quibble. When I connect my iPad to my PC or Mac with Air Display (I'll let you Google that yourself), it becomes a secondary display, as well - and a touch interface, to boot! Capacitive, too, and we've already estaished that those are intrinsically pressure sensitive.

So, no, I am not wrong. You, however, have repeatly been wrong here. Wrong about me being wrong, wrong about me being able to admit when I'm wrong, wrong about me lying, wrong about whether or not this argument is a quibble, wrong about whether or not you initially asked a question... Need I go on? Mind you, you also don't appear to be wrong about your side of the quibble; nobody has made a dual-screen device with a capacitive touch secondary display built in, as far as I can tell. But, if you think I ever claimed otherwise, that's just another thing you're wrong about.

We embed these in our Atom-driven products to run GUIs and they work like a champ.

Mimo 7" USB touchscreen = $180

Mimo 10" USB touchscreen = $260

We use NT embedded but these also have OSX drivers, and if you want to use these with Unix you're not alone.

We embed these in our Atom-driven products to run GUIs and they work like a champ.

Mimo 7" USB touchscreen = $180

Mimo 10" USB touchscreen = $260

We use NT embedded but these also have OSX drivers, and if you want to use these with Unix you're not alone.

you are online right now... you can buy anything online

How do I try the product? If I buy something that I haven't tried, I'm out return shipping plus 15 percent of the subtotal for restocking.

and save local sales taxes

And still have to declare use tax on a state tax return.

[two ThinkGeek links]

Resolution of both devices: 480x800 pixels, which isn't much of an improvement over 1366x768. Operating system: Linux is listed as unsupported.

My desktop has a far bigger screen than any mobile device would be comfortable with carrying. Two screens some of the time. A full sized keyboard and mouse, which is infinitely more useful than anything other than perhaps touchscreen, and even then beats it in some applications. It's far more powerful per dollar spent than any mobile device from the same year could be, a trend that is still true. It runs cooler, as it can have a near unlimited amount of fans.

It all boils down to what you prefer. A mobile desktop replacement setup doesn't have to be a heavy and cumbersome 17" or 19" laptop. Mind you I'll still cede you your point about desktops having bigger screens, but two screens not being possible on a mobile setup?? I've got three of them... I bought a 13.3" macbook which I cram into the smallest laptop backpack I could find along with a USB driven touch screen monitor, a mouse and I still have enough space in my bag to cram a bluetooth numpad in there if I wanted to. I also have a 19" monitor that folds into a compact package. It fits nicely into an old laptop bag and I use it at semi-permanent work stations where I can't beg or borrow a decent monitor since I work in several different locations these days. I'm afraid I don't share your fetish for cooling fans, one of the nice points of the MacBook and many other small laptops is that they hardly ever fire up the fan. I can't claim that I don't miss the extra screen real estate I used to have with full blown desktops but on the other had this setup is infinitely more portable which is what I want. I can expand my MacBook into a tolerable desktop replacement practically anywhere but I can also dump one or both monitors and all of the rest of the paraphernalia if I don't feel like dragging it around and make do with virtual desktops.

What I really want is a usb display-link qi screen with touch screen input nice and thin and light probably with a built in usb hub.
that I can use with my netbook in one of three ways

As a traditional secondary display used side by side
As a input device where sketching a diagram would be handy and other input that a mouse and keyboard doesn't address

finally attached to the back of my netbook screen where it can do duty as a tablet or ebook reader. Some simple suckers to attach it would be good enough.

When you look at the many picture frame designs samsung do a 7inch frame 800x600 with usb display link and 1 gb of storage for £60 retail about the same cost as current console game releases. It should be possible to have this device available for this sort of price or combine it into a picture frame similar to the samsung for not much more than their current device.

I can't see why you would want a tablet when you already have a netbook and the pixel qi technology would extend battery life with the internal display turned off.

I'm sure this could become a common i/o device

there are some similar screens that almost do what I want but currently are not quite there in form functionality or price.

http://www.mimomonitors.com/

http://www.mimomonitors.com/ 7" LCD, 800x480, USB monitor Pretty sure there's a Linux driver for it somewhere, too lazy to look. I'm also too lazy to see if someone else already mentioned this idea.