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Importantly, HDMI will be around for projectors. Almost every meeting room and every class room everywhere in the world has a beamer and an HDMI cable on the de
by yarcob 6y ago
Importantly, HDMI will be around for projectors. Almost every meeting room and every class room everywhere in the world has a beamer and an HDMI cable on the desk. I don't think this is going to change in the next 5 years. It took more than 10 years for most of the world to upgrade from VGA to HDMI cables, and HDMI works fine technically, so there's less pressure to upgrade to USB-C.
So for the foreseeable future, if you ever do a presentation, and you have a Mac, you are going to bring a dongle.
If you're a teacher and you don't want to deal with an unreliable dongle 5 times a day, the most convenient Mac for you is currently the 2015 Macbook Pro with its built-in HDMI port.
- rbanffy 6y agoIt was like that with VGA and now it's not. It may not change in 5 years - it took longer for VGA to finish dying.
- Kirby64 6y agoOr just do what my company started doing: chain a dongle to the projector. If you have a Type-C port, use the dongle. If you have HDMI, use the direct HDMI cable. This $30 dongle is cheaper than upgrading all the projectors to support Type-C, and still allows older PCs to use HDMI. Not really sure what's unreliable about USB-C to HDMI dongles... sure if you buy a crappy one they have issues, but good ones aren't expensive these days (at least, for projector resolution. YMMV if you're trying to do 4k or something)