• JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    USB-C does a lot of heavy lifting. Also, MagSafe™ is still there. A little surprised there is also a SD card slot. And a HDMI port. Not complaining about their inclusion, and I do use them regularly, but why did the dongle company give these to us?

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      2 days ago

      A lot of people give presentations or connect their laptop to a TV, I don’t think taking out the HDMI port would go down well at all.

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          1 day ago

          I recently bought a refurbished laptop, and a large part of the reason I got it was for presentations, HDMI was a must have feature for me.

          I imagine any enterprise laptop would be similar, if you can’t hook it up to the projector, why bother?

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            1 day ago

            Well, if you use such legacy style of connection to projector, I may agree, if it was not that easy to upgrade the cable to have a c to hdmi adapter mounted all the time.

            I connect wireless to my projectors, like, everywhere.

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              23 hours ago

              Homie, the non profit club we’re renting a room from isn’t going to buy a new projector just because I think HDMI is beneath my dignity.

              Projectors have a long lifespan, and don’t tend to be replaced until they actually fail.

              Besides, HDMI can transfer up to 48 gigabit/sec, so it’s actually faster than anything but the very latest standard of USB.

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                9 hours ago

                Lol, you do not need a no projector, just a hdmi to c dongle on the hdmi cable that is already there -> 5 to 20 dollars

                And if it is that old, it will not need 48gb/s or do you have 8k 120hz?? (This would be veeeery expensive)