Desktop-sized displays hit the road - is it time for businesses to trade portability for productivity?

Late last year, I wrote about the wave of “portable” monitors getting so large that they could easily migrate from secondary displays to being a primary one, for example, the 24in ASUS ZenScreen.

Since then, other 24in portable displays have come to market from Innoview and others. In fact, the 24” barrier has even been ever so slightly exceeded with 24.5in models from Epormot and others. Our hardware editor even recently reviewed the Asus ZenScreen MB27ACF, a 27in behemoth that's still designed for portability.

Particularly as these products cross the 24in threshold, they invite comparison to similarly sized “desktop monitors” that sell for a fraction of their price; while these “portable” displays can cost $350 or more, several models of QHD 24in monitors with stands can be found for less than $100.