[Arm-netbook] First impressions

Adam Gill madallig at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 08:37:21 GMT 2010


When I go to get the second set of 25 samples on 14 March - I'll ask for 
some samples of these "HDMI" cables ....

Cheers!
Adam



Jon Ervine wrote:
> On 17 February 2010 08:22, Adam Gill <madallig at gmail.com 
> <mailto:madallig at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Jon,
>     Thanks for the pictures ....
>
>     1.So if the HDMI lookalike connector is really connected - then we
>     can have video out  :-) - the keyboard shows this option anyway -
>     Fn/F5 ...
>
>     Is this a standard connector? ..... as my mini HDMI is too large.
>
>
> I've been reading the wikipedia article on HDMI at 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI and been out with my measuring tape :-)
>
> Type A HDMI is the size we're used to seeing with TVs and PS3s
> Type B HDMI is even larger and hasn't really been used in consumer goods
> Type C HDMI is the smaller 'mini-HDMI' port we've seen on cameras and 
> other smaller devices. It is larger than the port on the netbook we have.
> Type D HDMI is smaller again than Type C. In fact it's smaller than 
> micro-USB ports, so is smaller than the port on our netbooks.
>
> Our port is just a bit smaller than Type C (approx 9mm to 10.4mm for 
> Type C), so it's anyone's guess as to what this actually is. Another 
> Chinese port perhaps? More googling ahead I suspect :-(
>
> Jon
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