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MaxiVista offers one thing that no other software I’ve found will let you do. If you’ve got a working screen trapped in an outdated laptop or tablet, MaxiVista will allow you to use it as an extra screen on your main PC. Not just a remote-controlled screen, a real drag-the-application-across extra screen. Few but the rarest of portable computers have a VGA-in, so MaxiVista uses a network connection to create a virtual VGA screen on the PC — the output of which is displayed on another computer. If you have a spare monitor, it’s still preferable to toss in a PCI video card, but if you have a spare laptop or tablet, this is the only way to get those pixels working for you again.
For those of you with a spare tablet PC around the place…
Dust off that old tablet PC. If you run more than one machine around the place (and really, who doesn’t these days?) but hate the clutter of keyboards around the place, this sort of application is for you. Of course,…
This is really cool. I tried it on my old Toshiba laptop (Pentium II 450MHz) and it works brilliant.
The video is also awesome:
http://www.maxivista.com/videos/mv_performance.wmv
George
Pretty cool. I’ll give it a try.
Scing