Does someone else see a bandwidth issue here?

This monitor has been out for months. Here's a review from June:
http://www.everythingusb.com/samsung_syncmaster_940ux_11970.html

The monitor won't play games and has lag for video or other bandwidth intensive activities. It's a niche solution for a niche need.

The only problem is when you plug it in and you get a little task bar notification which says:

This device could perform faster if plugged into a USB 2.0 port.

USB 1.1 and 12MB/s FTW!!!

So they took one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2000010...&Configurator=&Subcategory=353&description=&Ntk=...[.com] and built it directly into the monitor. A little more convenient maybe but you can get a 5ms 19" monitor for well under 200 dollars, plus 70 dollars for one of these adapters, and still have 120+ leftover.

Either setup would be good for headless machines, cut down on power use by not having video of any sort installed (although I imagine server boards with ye olde Rage VGA chip aren't using much power for video).

I imagine they could have gone with a 16ms display and gotten about the same quality out of it. Nice contrast though.

Bah, for that price you could get a regular LCD plus a graphics card.

For this monitors $379 suggested retail price, one could pick up two regular monitors (cheapest 19" on Newegg are $160) and a spare PCI video card to run them off of. This thing would only be useful if you need a ton of monitors for 2d stuff, like being a day trader or similar.

why usb? firewire is available and faster on alot of systems these days.

Does the software drivers support linux?

That's cool, in a workstation-esque kind of way.

If it's the same USB monitor that I read a few weeks ago, then I have to point out that it doesn't have the necessary bandwidth for fast-paced full-screen video and/or most games. Still a neat idea, though.

I wonder if that monitor meets the minimum specs for UT3?

Sounds like a neat idea for a secondary 2d monitor as it takes some of the guess work out of setting that at. But I have a feeling this thing would be useless to most as a primary monitor.

It'd be cool if there was a USB-TV Component out dongle.