> There's always that theory that low-end devices will opt for DP to avoid royalties, but the cheapest laptops and monitors tend to be HDMI-only if anything bec

> There's always that theory that low-end devices will opt for DP to avoid royalties, but the cheapest laptops and monitors tend to be HDMI-only if anything because DP is more of a special feature. Yeah, when I needed a new laptop dock, one of my annoyances was having to pay extra for a DP one because our lab's IT refuses to stock adapters or cables "because people keep using them instead of returning them" and they "spent extra" to get monitors which have a single DP port.