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Re: Laptop with reverse VGA
From: Jake Khuon <khuon () neebu net>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:39:26 -0800
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 23:23 +0200, Jussi Peltola wrote:
The display would require a scaler/processor/ADC/TMDS receiver, which are found in every standalone LCD. This stuff consumes multiple watts (it becomes hot enough to cook itself in a few years after all) so it will not appear in a laptop any time soon.
I think the form-factour is already there. I have a Motorola Atrix smartphone. It's available with a laptop-dock unit. This is essentially a USB hub and display. The display is connected by outputting from the phone's HDMI port. The rest of the input/output device (keyboard and trackpad) are seen as USB connected devices and interfaced via the phone's USB port (Atrix supports USB host mode). Essentially, this laptop dock is what people are talking about except for a generic host instead of for a phone. We would want to expose the HDMI input generically and probably with an additional VGA input. Of course there are also VGA-HDMI converters. Anyone wanna ring up Motorola to see if they're interesting in adapting the Atrix laptop-dock technology? -- /*=================[ Jake Khuon <khuon () NEEBU Net> ]=================+ | Packet Plumber, Network Engineers /| / [~ [~ |) | | -------- | | for Effective Bandwidth Utilisation / |/ [_ [_ |) |_| NETWORKS | +==================================================================*/
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