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For travel I always brought one of these as us zenscreen https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ZenScreen-MB16AC-Portable-Monito... they are powered off the USB.

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This is what I plan to do. I am trying to patiently wait for the Asus ROG version. It appears to have been delayed and there are 2 versions. One with a tripod and one with a typical iPad/tablet stand built into the cover. I'm mostly wanting it for console gaming because I don't want to get a TV or put another monitor on my desk. I also live in a small studio apartment that I can only fit my desk and bed in. This can be used on my desk or sitting in my bed even and will just slip right into my backpack if I wanted.

I bought one of those as well, although it was a knockoff brand, it's great when travelling since it's about the same size as my MacBook. I wish I invested slightly more, the brightness on mine is terrible.

Not sure if this will help, but with my USB-C monitor the default brightness/contrast is poor, and requires manually fiddling with the settings on every boot/resume from sleep, so I found a Linux utility that does the fiddling for me:

    cat ~/bin/brightness 
    #!/bin/bash
    #
    echo "increasing brightness/contrast of external monitor"
    /usr/local/bin/ddcutil --display 1 setvcp 10 40
    /usr/local/bin/ddcutil --display 1 setvcp 12 10

Tie the above in with your init/resume scripts and you're good to go (assumes that your issue isn't limited by the hardware itself).

I'll give that a try later, although I think mine is hardware limited. It's probably because it's a cheap knockoff one tho, but it works for terminal use, or anything that has a high contrast.

Looks very practical, touch works well with mac?

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