ViewSonic VA1653 16 Inch 1080p FHD IPS Portable Monitor with Eye Care Built-in Stand USB C Mini HDMI

Highlights: * crisp image; * accurate touch; * 16:10 aspect ratio; * touch functionality worked with minimal fuss on MacOS I use this monitor in a music production home studio, where I mounted it on VESA-compatible arm*, hovering over a MIDI controller. I connect it to a Mac Studio and use touch to control Logic Pro, plug-ins and AxeEdit III. It works really well for this application. I am able to adjust plug-in and AxeFX parameters with simply a touch and without much fuss. And the vTouch suite seems sufficiently powerful for me to add a couple of quality of life improvements (e.g. multi-finger gestures for VESA Mounting: because this is a portable monitor, it doesn't have VESA mounting facilities. The portable cover is cool, and I didn't want to lose this functionality, so I just used some adhesive metal plates and mounted neodymium magnets the VESA receiver bracket. Mags are strong and monitor is light enough to make this a sufficiently sturdy solution. Read more

I just bought on On Thanksgiving. I received it on 11/29. I have being using it since then. It works very well as it advertises on Amazon. Great quality. Sharp display and color is very nice to us. 10 points screen gesture works for computer very well, but not for cell phone 15. It has 2 speaker. OK sound quality. But, this helps lot when we connect it to our Iphone 15. Read more

I've used this with my MacBook, and with my Mac Mini. Provides touch screen access to a Mac, but you do need to load a driver for that. Nice, bright, clear screen. More than a little pricey, but I am getting my money's worth out of it. Read more

Very nice touch screen 2K resolution monitor. Works perfect with a touch screen laptop. Love the single 2-way power USB C cable. The display is excellent. With that said I find 2 faults, not big things for me at this time, with this monitor. 1. If you connect this monitor to a desktop gaming computer with a larger non touchscreen monitor, in order for you to make the touch screen work you must make this portal monitor the primary monitor. 2. The smart cover built in stand is cheap and stupid at best. Other than that, this monitor is great. Read more

I have two of these that I connect to a laptop and lighting console. I need stands for them because of the weird application, but the biggest win here is that they're powered over USB-C, so you only need one cable (provided your ports can output the juice). They're more than adequately bright for my use, and they feel durable and heavy enough that they're not going to bend or break. Truly portable gear. The resolution is also appropriate for my use case. Read more

I bought this monitor to replace my broken ViewSonic VA1655 model. I broke the screen when overstuffing my backpack and going through the airport carelessly. It served me well in its time. I tried two other monitors, knock-off brands for half the price....buy half the quality too. In the end I decided to keep one as a backup and return the other one (you can read my other reviews to see how a monitor can drive you insane quickly). This new monitor, the ViewSonic VA1653 looks and works 98% identical. What difference I noticed is the built-in kickstand does not support vertical orientation (do not care) and the USB-C cable it came with was straight instead of the cool 90-degree one that my old ViewSonic came with (a little saddened by that). But hey, I paid about $30 less for this than the old one so who is to complain, right? Plugged in; hit the power button, and the screen came to life instantly. I could not be happier. The screen is just as bright, just as crisp (for my WFH needs), just as light....its like getting a new puppy after your best dog passes...its not exactly the same, but you love it immediately because of the familiarity to the old. Read more

works great now that i figured it out, but took me a while so only 3 stars. to make it run on my laptop, it must be plugged into the USB C with the lightning bolt on my laptop. plugging into other USB crashed my computer, caused glitches, made the computer very slow. suspect it was due to inadequate power from other USB outlets Read more

Bought in 2022 I use this monitor as a 2nd monitor while full screen gaming on my main monitor. Great for managing voice chat, and web browsing while in game. Great glass monitor. After reading all the negative reviews I thought I'd shed some light on the "issues". HDMI only carries picture and sound data, windows will assign a generic monitor driver. If you want touch screen the monitor must be plugged in also with USB. To configure the touchscreen to work properly you must go to windows display and configure the monitor, it will default to being a touch screen FOR the main monitor. Not all usbC are created the same, I have intel integrated graphics with thunderbolt. With this I can run my main monitor with my gpu, and this secondary monitor off of the integrated gfx with just 1 thunderbolt from the computer to the viewsonic touch screen. No hdmi or separate USB power. In summary most negative reviews are user error. Read more