03-07-2025, 04:26 AM
decay wrote:
Did PCs with HDMI run 7?
A valid question... I have a Dell Latitude 14z purchased in 2013, I think it originally ran Windows 8 by that time, it has HDMI. I have a couple older Dell and Lenovo PCs which have displayport... one of the first Google Chromebook models from Samsung had a displayport connection... I feel like you wouldn't reliably expect HDMI until Windows 10 shipped on almost everything... although Displayport => HDMI adapters should be common enough they don't usually transport the audio that built-in HDMI would.
The first Mac with HDMI was the 15" retina from mid-2012...
Windows 8 shipped in August 2012... so there is probably a small overlap of laptops from around 2010-2012 that shipped with Windows 7 and have HDMI on them. Before that it was all displayport all the time, except when it was VGA. There definitely weren't a lot of laptops with DVI as it was a substantial connector.