Village Tronic ViBook Plus
Jan 2nd, 2010 | By SimonInstallation of the ViBook is quite simple. For starters, if you want to mount the VESA mount, you will need to find a suitable location on your monitor. In addition, you’ll need to prep the mount with the foam pads to protect the monitor and elevate the mount away from the side. Two screws hold the mount in place.
Most people are unlikely to use the VESA mount; instead they will either connect the ViBook Plus directly to the DVI port on the monitor using the DVI gender changer or mount the ViBook Plus to the back of the monitor with the adhesive pads and use the DVI to VGA cable. Both forms are acceptable and will provide you with the exact same performance.
If the back of your monitor is curved, you may not be able to plug the ViBook Plus and gender changer directly to the bottom of your monitor. I found with my Samsung 2232GW, there wasn’t enough space. To remedy this, you will either need your own DVI monitor cable or use the provided DVI to VGA monitor cable. I would have liked to see ViBook provide a short DVI extension cable and solve this problem. Using my own 6′ DVI cable isn’t an issue but it creates additional clutter behind the desk. With the cable only being single DVI, this shouldn’t cost Village Tronic very much.
The resolution for me was to use the VGA cable as opposed to having a DVI connection.
Once you have the ViBook Plis connected to your monitor, plug the USB end into your laptop and you’re off to software installation.
Hi, Simon. Nice review, so nice in fact I want to buy one but can only find it at one online distributor, Harmonic Inversion Technologies.com. When I try to checkout after adding the product to the basket, my browsers and internet security program blocks my progress and gives big warnings about proceeding as the site is unsecured and possibly dangerous. I have e-mailed both Village Tronic and Harmonic but no one wants to respond. Do you have any direct contacts at either of these places or know where I can buy one at a reputable online dealer? It’s really frustrating as I just bought a 24″ monitor and would love to run it at full resolution.
Thanks and again great review.
Mark,
I will send an email to Harmonic Inversion for you and see what they can do. Send me an email me your email address and I will try and get someone to reply directly to you.
Regards,
Simon