Are there advantages of DisplayPort over HDMI? Or do you just want to use Apple branded monitors without an adapter? My naive outsider's thought works be that rather than adding an additional output to all video cards, that it would be better if monitor manufacturers would settle on a single standard.
[1] HDMI royalties are about 1/2 the cost of H.264 decoders
[2] And yet I have to plug my USB cable in to get my laptop to see devices hanging on my display. Come on Apple! Read the spec! Implement! You are costing me 4 seconds per day in unnecessary plug fumbling time.
[3] You could hang four 1080p60 displays on a single DisplayPort
DisplayPort is a free standard, while HDMI requires a license. Also, DisplayPort allows devices to be daisy-chained rather than connected to a single hub (theoretical at this stage, though).
Thanks. I didn't know there were other manufacturers making monitors with DisplayPort inputs. I use mostly NVidia cards and Linux, so I was being genuine about my 'naive' status. My impression was that DisplayPort was dead outside Apple. Does you think it's still up and coming, or is it another Beta/VHS problem?
If my memory serves me _right_, I saw a Dell POS (Point of Sale) system a couple of days ago that had an integrated Intel videocard which offered only VGA and DP outputs. If you wanted a (legacy) DVI output you had to buy an extra ATI card that had DVI output.
Also a couple of new laptops offer DP output and combined with the advantages that others have already mentioned, I think that it has a future and it will replace DVI, but not HDMI.
