[Arm-netbook] First impressions

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Jon Ervine <jon.ervine at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 February 2010 08:22, Adam Gill <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 :-(

 14 pins.  so..... yyyyyep.  that would explain the VGA "option".

 l.