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

[Ron Frazier]

Yup.  SOP - Standard Operating Procedure - Screw the customer whenever 
you can.

Ron

On 02/03/2011 08:27 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>
> You better get ready for it. All modern displays are digital devices. 
> Receiving VGA requires a A-D chipset which isn't cheap. They will stop 
> including those as soon as they believe they can. It's going to hit 
> like unlimited cellphone plans. Once one of them takes the plunge, the 
> others will follow.
>
>> On Feb 3, 2011 12:16 AM, "Ron Frazier" <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com 
>> <mailto:atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I do hope that the monitor / projector makers won't leave us
>> (collectively) out in the cold having to buy thousands of "converters"
>> to attach our old equipment to new display devices. I haven't bought any
>> monitors or projectors very recently though. I think my Sony flat screen
>> has a VGA port on the back, as well as HDMI.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>> On 01/31/2011 06:20 PM, David Tomaschik wrote:
>> > I can't say I've seen monitors/projectors without ...
>>
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