[ltp] Vote on the design of future ThinkPad

[Richard Neill]

Alex Deucher wrote:
>>
>> Far more important, why, for the love of all that is unholy, aren't
>> thinkpads equipped with a (dual-link) DVI? It's 2006, for crying out 
>> loud,
>> and VGA D-SUB is an affront in this day and age.
> 
> Well, for 90% of users plain old vga is fine (think projectors).

Yes...but a DVI socket can easily be converted to VGA with a simple 
adapter, costing about $2. Not so easy to go the other way. Besides 
which, VGA really doesn't work if the cable is longer than 2m - the 
projector in our lab is on the end of a 20m cable, with 3 joins in it, 
and the ghosting is horrid!


> Also, it wasn't until the avivo based radeons that ati provided a
> built in dual link TMDS transmitter.  The old r128/radeon TMDS
> transmitter was only single link.  Dual link solutions with the older
> display engines required an external TMDS chip which adds expense.
> Dual link DVI may work with the T60p and the adanced dock.  As more
> iterations of avivo based notebooks come out I'd image you'll start to
> see DVI ports.
>