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Re:Ubuntu Edge by macspoofing on Monday July 22, 2013 @02:18PM (#6085486)
>The biggest problem for me is that I have a number of monitors and laptops that don't support HDMI

That's not a problem for anybody else. It's practically a non-issue.

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Re:Ubuntu Edge by commandar on Monday July 22, 2013 @05:16PM (#6086511)
Uh, no.

http://shopping1.hp.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/WW-USS...

Those are the monitors HP aims at the enterprise. A lot of them have VGA only, and none of them have HDMI.

So in my organization, we have thousands of monitors that would require an adapter at minimum and maybe a couple dozen floating around that were special ordered one-offs that might have HDMI built-in.

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Re:Ubuntu Edge by zanny on Monday July 22, 2013 @05:15PM (#6086505)
Yea, what kind of display made since 2005 doesn't support hdmi (note: dvi -> hdmi is really easy and readily available)? Analog video died in 2001, and only persists in corporate America, and it is so horribly outdated broken and crappy I can't fathom wasting development effort to get a vga port or adapter working.
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