Looking at the back of my laptop, I can see USB connectors, a network connector and some 3.5 audio mini plugs. They are all modern and small and nifty. But there's also a massive dirty 15-pin blue thing for an external monitor! Those things are ancient! Any they have screws! Yuck!
Surely they need a better-looking and younger relative to take over?
(OK, OK, 3.5 audio mini plugs are also ancient, but you know what I mean!)
2007-07-30 21:20:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
Thanks for telling me about the DVI thing. I checked it out and it's pretty much the same as the VGA connector! I think it's the screwing aspect that bothers me. I like the click-in, click-out style of LAN cables best. USB is cool because it's small, but pulling them out is a slight pain.
2007-07-30 21:59:09 · update #1
I suppose you're talking about the VGA connector. They should be retired, and in-fact they almost are. Every new graphics card that is coming out has DVI connectors now, if you want VGA there's a DVI to VGA adapter. VGA is outdated because it has to transform the signal while sending it along the wire, then it transforms again along the wire, then it finally converts to a digital signal into the monitor. The DVI cable just has a digital signal, which makes it faster and more efficient. So yes, VGA should be retired, and it will be in a few years!
2007-07-30 21:45:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Seen the size of a DVI connector then?
My laptop (very new) still has a parallel port and serial port.
You can't sweep defined "standards" under the carpet so easily.
Additional: I'm looking at a graphics card with VGA and DVI connectors and I assure you DVI is bigger!
2007-07-30 21:26:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
VGA Connectors - They have been around for quite sometime and it will take sometime before it is completely wiped off...The newer cables like DVI, HDMI are so small and compact. The Video bandwidth is there and so thats the cause its big n bulky...
2007-07-30 22:17:25 · answer #3 · answered by Sridhar G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
USB - been around since 1995
Ethernet - been around in a similar form since the 1980s
PS/2 port -1987
Parallel port - 1970s
I think the VGA is the least of our worries. Legacy components die hard.
2007-07-30 21:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the new apple ibook g5 laptops out put monitor plugs are better, but the onlything they do to go into the ibooks monior plug is a adptor to change it over to a vga (15pin) plug!
2007-07-30 21:28:01 · answer #5 · answered by Matt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know what you mean, how many times do you get one end of it stuck in the back of the computer and the other end is out and the barsteward won't unscrew! Aaagggghhhh!
2007-07-30 21:25:00 · answer #6 · answered by Rachael H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are a pain, but they are probably carry more data per second than any other connection. Isn't it a pity though that we can't use the same connection an xbox uses. I think its RCA or SCART. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong please.)
2007-07-30 21:34:27 · answer #7 · answered by xenobyte72 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ummm.... computers still use those, and the 3.5mm audio jacks.
2007-07-30 21:23:21 · answer #8 · answered by Yahoo! Answerer 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋