New MacBook Pros to have HDMI???

[MacBook08]

Hey I found this picture on flickr. I noticed it has an air keyboard, an hdmi port, and a green apple logo glow. Could the green be part of the stoplight rumors I've heard in the new logos?

 

[Chundles]

Why would it have HDMI and DVI? Looks more like eSATA to me.

Oh, and it's a stinky, stinky mockup.

 

[UltraNEO*]

Sorry, that photos looks like a complete fake!!!

Also, there's absolutely no reason to have a dedicated HDMI socket on a laptop that has a fully compliance DVI output. All the signals required for a HDMI device can be found on the standard DVI socket, all one needs is a DVI to HDMI cable.

AND..

There's no need for a eSATA port either!! Because there are countless of expresscard adapters to fulfil a user's requirements. If anything.. Apple should consider making more compatible drivers, so users with eSATA RAID setups and drives can boot of them.

 

[m1stake]

Why would it have HDMI and DVI? Looks more like eSATA to me.

Oh, and it's a stinky, stinky mockup.

Definitely eSATA. And definitely a terrible photoshop.

 

[Cave Man]

Sorry, that photos looks like a complete fake!!!

Complete fake for sure. Everyone knows the next MBP is going to be fluorescent orange and the entire case will glow when it sleeps.

 

[Fuchal]

Sorry, that photos looks like a complete fake!!!

Also, there's absolutely no reason to have a dedicated HDMI socket on a laptop that has a fully compliance DVI output. All the signals required for a HDMI device can be found on the standard DVI socket, all one needs is a DVI to HDMI cable.

AND..

There's no need for a eSATA port either!! Because there are countless of expresscard adapters to fulfil a user's requirements. If anything.. Apple should consider making more compatible drivers, so users with eSATA RAID setups and drives can boot of them.

I would rather have HDMI than DVI to carry audio as well.

 

[robotica]

I would rather have HDMI than DVI to carry audio as well.

plus its a smaller connector and you can get a HDMI -> DVI adapter

 

[Peace]

plus its a smaller connector and you can get a HDMI -> DVI adapter

Plus most new displays have HDMI ports.😉

 

[eigenvector]

plus its a smaller connector and you can get a HDMI -> DVI adapter

Yeah, the biggest advantage of HDMI (on a laptop) is the reduced size compared to DVI.

 

[UltraNEO*]

I would rather have HDMI than DVI to carry audio as well.

Downside here would be...
NO dual-link on HDMI, so no high resolution monitors

 

[Chundles]

Downside here would be...
NO dual-link on HDMI, so no high resolution monitors

I was wondering about that - so HDMI can't do above the regular 1920x1200.

 

[Polymira]

HDMI and DVI are the same thing, hdmi just carries audio. There's no technical reason a hdmi to dual dvdi adapter couldn't be made.

 

[Chundles]

HDMI and DVI are the same thing, hdmi just carries audio. There's no technical reason a hdmi to dual dvdi adapter couldn't be made.

Well no, but at this point it doesn't exist.

 

[valvehead]

Downside here would be...
NO dual-link on HDMI, so no high resolution monitors

Exactly. Everyone that keeps asking for HDMI seems to forget about that. 🙄

 

[Dmac77]

Please please tell me that you have a visual impairment! For what ungodly reason would Apple decide to make the Apple glow green? THEY AREN"T FRICKIN' ALIENWARE!!!!! Plus the rest of the mockup looks like $h!t

Don

PS

Don't take this in the wrong way

 

[MusicallySilent]

Yea, that green glow looks stupid

eSata puzzles me with the new FW3200 being standardized they would be more likely to go that route.

 

[Cave Man]

eSata puzzles me with the new FW3200 being standardized they would be more likely to go that route.

eSATA drives are cheaper since they don't require a controller (like FW does) and because of greater sales volume.

 

[cw2k7]

Downside here would be...
NO dual-link on HDMI, so no high resolution monitors

HDMI supports dual link if you use the Type B connector (don't think anyone has used this version yet).

 

[iMacmatician]

Hey I found this picture on flickr. I noticed it has an air keyboard, an hdmi port, and a green apple logo glow. Could the green be part of the stoplight rumors I've heard in the new logos?

Fake.

The MacBook Pro is the same design, not the new one rumored to come out soon.

 

[isauce]

MBP will eventually have HDMI, however with the next revision I doubt it. Apple seems to only add features or lack thereof after all its competitors have a year ago. If Apple does add it in the next revision, well shut me up. 😀

 

[Killyp]

HDMI and DVI are the same thing, hdmi just carries audio. There's no technical reason a hdmi to dual dvdi adapter couldn't be made.

Yes there is, HDMI doesn't have enough pins to carry a dual-link signal.

A dual-link DVI-D or DVI-I port has more pins than a 'non-dual-link' DVI-D or DVI-I port. HDMI doesn't have enough pins to make up a dual-link DVI port.

Not possible sadly, sorry.

If HDMI is ever introduced on the MacBook Pro, Apple will most probably keep the DVI-I connection too.

 

[Firefly2002]

Complete fake for sure. Everyone knows the next MBP is going to be fluorescent orange and the entire case will glow when it sleeps.

I thought I was the only one who knew that, besides Steve. So much for feeling special 🙁

 

[dissdnt]

It's a fake!

 

[raquiros]

Complete fake for sure. Everyone knows the next MBP is going to be fluorescent orange and the entire case will glow when it sleeps.

Is that true???? 😱

 

[UltraNEO*]

HDMI supports dual link if you use the Type B connector (don't think anyone has used this version yet).

Looking at the the photo, that's not the "B" type. 😀