Netbooks to Ship with HDMI in 2011
PrintThe typical netbook is missing a lot of things -- power, optical drives, oodles of storage, more than 2GB of RAM, gaming grade graphics (Nvidia's ION platform notwithstanding) -- but one thing you will find on the netbooks of tomorrow is an HDMI port.
We're talking about HDMI on pretty much all netbooks, not just those built around Nvidia's ION platform. Slapping an HDMi port on the side is part of Intel's push to expand the functionality of this market segment, which will coincide with the Cedar Trail-M platform launch in the second half of 2011.
A good thing too, because today's standard netbooks are ill-equipped to handle HD content, which makes an HDMI port a mostly non-issue. But with Cedar Trail-M, tomorrow's netbooks will boast full HD support and be up to the task of driving content on your HD television.
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violian
May 11, 2010 at 11:00am
Why is this news? My Dell Mini 10 netbook that I bought last summer has an HDMI output. It only supports up to 1366x768 though.
AntiHero
May 11, 2010 at 11:27pm
This is news because most netbooks do not. I have an EEE PC 1008P and it doesn't have HDMI, it has a proprietary VGA adapter that's located in a secret compartment on the bottom of the netbook. This is mainly due to the Intel Atom not being abled to power a high res HD image in the scale people would use HDMI for. Now that the Intel Atom CPU's are becoming more powerful, they're able to provide that ability. Also, my laptop only ups to ANY TV at 1366x760, TV's don't have as high resolutions as Monitors commonly, also laptops don't provide that high quality of an image anyway. Lower power video cards.
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