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Sure. But monitors don’t move around, so who cares what ports are on them? A VGA to whatever adapter can just hang there. I fully understand that there’s a net
by intopieces 7y ago
Sure. But monitors don’t move around, so who cares what ports are on them? A VGA to whatever adapter can just hang there.
I fully understand that there’s a network engineering / hacker group that goes place to place hooking into all manner of legacy hardware, and that this laptop is a welcome sight to those who have been left behind by the push towards simplicity.
However, the implication (in other comments) that VGA is a necessary laptop port for the mostly desk-to-conference crowd is a bit absurd. Docks are fine.
- yyyk 7y agoI was arguing for the flip side of your comment: that in practice VGA is still supported by most display equipment and is often used, and that including support for a still widely used port is not all that surprising. Maybe five or ten years from now (given long lifetimes of equipment in question) it would be surprising to still have a VGA port. I agree that docks and adapters are perfectly fine, at least for me and my use cases. But it's not unreasonable for some users to desire direct support for a widely used port. I've had cases where adapters went bad and created issues - the most serious one was a mini-HDMI to HDMI adapter which caused display artefacts. But I've never yet had a VGA adapter cause issues. To each their own I guess.