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people still use vga ports?
by heifetz 14y ago
people still use vga ports?
- jez0990 14y agocrappy projectors are everywhere :( edit: and I've only ever had bad experiences with [X]->VGA adapters
- yuhong 14y agoI think AMD and Intel will get rid of chipset support for analog VGA video by 2015, and this includes DVI-I. This was announced by Intel back in 2010.
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- dmm 14y agoThe main use of video ports is hooking up to random projectors right? For that purpose vga is probably still best.
- schuke 14y agoMy guess is that if you're a businessman travelling around to do presentations at different places all the time, you probably need maximum compatibility. Sort of a differentiating factor. It also has a LAN port, of which one might ask the same question. Just a guess though.
- ciupicri 14y agoYou can't compare wired Ethernet with the wireless one. The wired one is more reliable, faster and a bit more secure.
- bgruber 14y agoyeah, people still use vga ports. and when you plug a projector into them, they actually work the first time! even with linux! crazy, i know. until recently, in our office, the only person whose laptop always worked right with the various projectors was the guy with linux on a thinkpad. macbooks with displayports were reliably unreliable. now the situation has reversed, because the new thinkpads are x1 carbons w/ displayports, and for the macs we hooked up an apple tv to the projector and use AirPlay, which behaves much, much better than the cable ever did.
- wklauss 14y agoA lot of people would argue you that, yes, its still widely used. In my experience not so much and its disappearing so quickly that they could have got away with some kind of HDMI + an adapter included on the box. IMHO they should have made the sacrifice.