DisplayLink Offers First Beta Drivers for Mac OS X

For those unaware, DisplayLink is a company and technology with the same name, and the product is one that allows daisy-chaining displays via a USB cable. I took a look at the technology back in January and was left rather impressed. Though I am anticipating an updated version more than anything, the product I did have worked a lot better than I expected, and it’s a real feasible product that should suffice for most consumers.

What the technology did lack, though, were OS X drivers to enable the functionality. Well now, the company has released beta drivers for all to test out, however, they are called “beta” for a reason. Right now, they lack both 2D and 3D acceleration, so performance will be worse than what’s seen on Windows XP or Vista. So needless to say, DisplayLink for Mac is en route, but now is not the time to purchase an adapter.

Thing is, it doesn’t support any kind of acceleration, so any kind of hardware-based tracking, smoothing, filters, or hardware handling of codecs is inapplicable. Bad news, but chances are if you’re using USB as your primary display connection, you’re not using too much hardware acceleration. It looks like there are a lot of limitations, but it is beta after all.

Source: CrunchGear