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Yes and yet I am still lugging adaptors - DP to VGA - DP to HDMI - DP to DVI Because I never know what I'll have when I present and you know what, I nearly alwa

by igrekel 12y ago

Yes and yet I am still lugging adaptors - DP to VGA - DP to HDMI - DP to DVI Because I never know what I'll have when I present and you know what, I nearly always have to revert back to VGA, its not like HDMI is new ! I have a nice integrated laptop but I have all these parts around in my bag that I sometimes lose or forget connected to a projector somewhere. What may have seem like a simpler solution really wasn't in the end.

zanny 12y ago
It isn't meant to be a simpler solution, but staying on analog video was never an answer. The only reason VGA projectors are still in use because they still work because we have all these passthrough options. Without them businesses would have replaced them as soon as VGA was going out of style, aka, 2002.
- makomk 12y ago
  Replaced them with what? HDMI, which needs an adapter and can't be fed from VGA sources? DP/MiniDP, which again needs an adapter and can't be fed from VGA or HDMI sources? Maybe USB-C, which doesn't need an adapter if you bought an Apple laptop within the last few hours and don't need to put it on charge? (Otherwise it requires an adapter in order to interface with DisplayPort - but hey, at least it has that backwards compatibility!) VGA's popular because it's the only option that actually works for everyone, and it's not for a lack of newer alternatives - in fact, the plethora of newer alternatives is the problem here.
JBiserkov 12y ago
The one video adapter to rule them all http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NXDD5HQ/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NXDD5HQ/ Otherwise, completely agree - the current situation is messed up. Yet I'm glad Apple is leading the way, just like with SSDs. Full disclosure: I don't own any Apple products or stock.
wmoxam 12y ago
Most people aren't travelling around presenting everywhere. Having a ton of adapters seems to be required for that niche
veidr 12y ago
I feel your pain because I also have to make presentations—and thus carry display adapters in my bag. But the vast majority of people never have to make presentations or hook up to legacy projectors and monitors. So bulking up the machine itself to accommodate that does not really make sense.

by igrekel 12y ago

zanny 12y ago

It isn't meant to be a simpler solution, but staying on analog video was never an answer. The only reason VGA projectors are still in use because they still work because we have all these passthrough options. Without them businesses would have replaced them as soon as VGA was going out of style, aka, 2002.

makomk 12y ago
Replaced them with what? HDMI, which needs an adapter and can't be fed from VGA sources? DP/MiniDP, which again needs an adapter and can't be fed from VGA or HDMI sources? Maybe USB-C, which doesn't need an adapter if you bought an Apple laptop within the last few hours and don't need to put it on charge? (Otherwise it requires an adapter in order to interface with DisplayPort - but hey, at least it has that backwards compatibility!) VGA's popular because it's the only option that actually works for everyone, and it's not for a lack of newer alternatives - in fact, the plethora of newer alternatives is the problem here.

JBiserkov 12y ago

The one video adapter to rule them all http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NXDD5HQ/ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NXDD5HQ/ Otherwise, completely agree - the current situation is messed up. Yet I'm glad Apple is leading the way, just like with SSDs. Full disclosure: I don't own any Apple products or stock.

wmoxam 12y ago

Most people aren't travelling around presenting everywhere. Having a ton of adapters seems to be required for that niche

veidr 12y ago

I feel your pain because I also have to make presentations—and thus carry display adapters in my bag. But the vast majority of people never have to make presentations or hook up to legacy projectors and monitors. So bulking up the machine itself to accommodate that does not really make sense.