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When we reviewed the AOC E1759Fwu USB monitor last year, it earned our Editors’ Choice for its color accuracy, portability, and sharp 1,600-by-900 image quality. With the E1659Fwux ($199.99) AOC ups the ante with a Full HD (1,920-by-1,080) USB display that, like its predecessor, delivers accurate colors and is travel-friendly. As with other portable USB monitors we’ve reviewed, the E1659Fwux uses a Twisted Nematic (TN) panel, and as such suffers from narrow viewing angles and middling gray-scale performance in testing. However, its 1080p picture blows away the competition and makes it our top pick for portable USB monitors.
Design and Features
As with the AOC E1759Fwu and the AOC E1659Fwu, the E1659Fwux has a glossy-black housing and a silver folding-picture-frame stand that rotates so you can use the display in Portrait or Landscape mode (the image on screen automatically rotates to whichever mode you’re in). The 15.6-inch TN panel has a matte, anti-glare coating and is framed by half-inch, glossy-black bezels. Weighing 2.6 pounds and measuring 9.1 by 14.6 by 0.6 inches (HWD), the E1659Fwux is slim enough to fit in a laptop bag and won’t add much weight while traveling. It comes with a black protective case, a USB cable, and a resource CD containing drivers, DisplayLink software, and a User Guide.
Other than a proprietary USB 3.0 port at the rear of the monitor, you won’t find any I/O ports on this display. It draws power and receives a video signal from the host PC using the included Y-shaped cable. The PC side of the cable has two USB connectors, but you’ll only need one in most cases (if you’re using an older PC or laptop you may need to draw power using the second connector).
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To start using the E1659Fwux, you first have to install the DisplayLink software. Once the software is installed, connect the USB cable to the monitor and to your host PC and wait for the software to find the monitor (it took around 30 seconds in my tests). As with other USB monitors, you don’t get any picture settings with the E1659Fwux, but you can use the Display properties in Windows Control Panel to set it as a primary, mirrored, or extended display.
Performance
The E1659Fwux delivers accurate colors and a sharp, high-definition picture. As shown on the chromaticity chart below, red, green, and blue color measurements (represented by the colored dots) are very close to their ideal CIE coordinates (represented by the boxes). We saw this kind of color performance with the AOC E1759Fwu when we tested it, but not with the AOC E1659Fwu, which suffered from skewed reds and blues in testing.
Gray-scale and viewing-angle performance was typical for a TN panel; the E1659Fwux was unable to display the two lightest shades of gray on the DisplayMate 64-Step Gray-Scale test, and as a result had trouble displaying fine highlight detail. Dark grays scaled evenly in our tests and provided good shadow detail, however. When viewed from the side, I observed significant color shifting at around 45 degrees from center, and the picture became washed out when I viewed it from the top and bottom of the display at around the same angle.
See How We Test MonitorsConclusion
If you spend a lot of time on the road and need a lightweight secondary monitor for your laptop, the AOC E1659Fwux is a great choice. It’s the only portable USB monitor we’ve reviewed that offers a 1,920-by-1,080 resolution, and it delivers accurate colors and crisp high-definition imagery. Its gray-scale and viewing-angle performance could be better, but that’s true of every portable USB monitor we’ve seen. Thus, the E1659Fwux is our Editors’ Choice portable USB monitor.
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The AOC E1659Fwux is a highly portable USB monitor that delivers a crisp 1080p picture and accurate colors.
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