[ale] Why do they keep putting VGA on Netbooks?!?!

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

On 01/27/2011 01:19 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> I complained about this 4 years ago. I can't believe I'm still finding
> myself saying "I want to by my wife a Lenovo IdeaPad, but is only has
> analog video out."

Good news for you.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/12/intel-and-amd-sign-death-warrant-for-vga-port.ars

> Rival processor makers Intel and AMD may not agree on much, but they are of one mind about the future of the venerable VGA graphics port: it doesn't have one. The two chipmakers are joined by Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, and LG in an industry-spanning agreement to phase out VGA entirely by 2015, and to standardize solely on HDMI and DisplayPort.

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All the best,
Brian Pitts