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Most laptops don't have a good video card. Macbooks have the small connector because the large connector is too large in form factor for a laptop (well maybe n
by mrtron 19y ago
Most laptops don't have a good video card.
Macbooks have the small connector because the large connector is too large in form factor for a laptop (well maybe not that huge HP :P). So other laptops would have to do something similar, but perhaps apple patented the mini-dvi port?
- neilc 19y agoI guess form factor could be a major part of it, although the 15" MBP does support DVI. And there are lots of laptops with decent non-integrated video cards but no DVI support -- support for DVI isn't exactly a high-end video card feature, after al.