I've been wanting to buy a laptop for a little while, but one thing that has held me back, is the fact that you can not drive a resolution higher than 1920x1200 off of an HDMI port. I was looking at laptops with DP's, but they are a bit expensive, and/or make other tradeoffs that I don't want to accept.
For years now, the HDMI spec has supported up to 2560x1440, but for whatever reason, this has not been incorporated into graphics cards to my knowledge (nor has it been supported by the majority of monitors).
With the release of Haswell, I've seen claims that it will support up to 4k displays. Are we to take this to mean, that all Haswell's with HDMI will be able to display high resolution, or does that mean Haswell itself is capable, but the manufacturer has to incorporate it into their design? Is it reasonable to expect that all Haswell laptops will be able to output 2560x1440 via HDMI, or is this to be determined?
For years now, the HDMI spec has supported up to 2560x1440, but for whatever reason, this has not been incorporated into graphics cards to my knowledge (nor has it been supported by the majority of monitors).
With the release of Haswell, I've seen claims that it will support up to 4k displays. Are we to take this to mean, that all Haswell's with HDMI will be able to display high resolution, or does that mean Haswell itself is capable, but the manufacturer has to incorporate it into their design? Is it reasonable to expect that all Haswell laptops will be able to output 2560x1440 via HDMI, or is this to be determined?