PORTABLE MONITORS like this aren’t usually Maximum PC’s vibe. It’s not 4K, doesn’t have a 500Hz refresh rate, isn’t ultrawide, and doesn’t measure 40 inches across the diagonal. The ZenScreen Go is modest of proportion, reasonable of brightness, and apparently humble of spec, but makes connections like a LinkedIn addict, and will work anywhere.
That’s why it’s here, among the fast, huge, and RGB-festooned. The ZenScreen is just so useful. In the time we’ve spent with it, we’ve used it as an emergency monitor for a desktop tower, wirelessly connected it to a laptop and a phone, wired it up to an iPad, seriously considered attaching a streaming stick to its HDMI port through an adapter, and marveled at the way you can supply it with both power and a video signal with a single USB-C cable. Convenience is an underrated commodity in an industry that still hungers for more power and cables.