And DVI-I can send/receive VGA signals.
Next UEFI (or brand-new alternative) should be much more like hypervisors (aka monitor on mainframes) and virtualize ALL hardwares, allowing to access only via well-defined runtime services. This way, something like GPU passthrough should be no longer needed. Simply call runtime services to use.
We have to get back to BIOS.
I think it's a good price for what you get. You can probably find them cheaper if you look around, that's just the first couple I found. We shall have to disagree on the price
. Freebsd does work very nicely on these machines too.These still exist because DVI, which was supposed to replace VGA didn't.
You might want to take a look a aIt's worth looking at some of the other types in addition to the premium grade X-series that most people like to buy. The T and R series were very good too. For example this R400 is a very nice piece of kit, built like a tank, if you can live with the maximum 4GB RAM; as usual it has a huge number of ports and like all thinkpads totally user servicable, you can find the hardware service manuals on the lenovo website. The T61 is another classic that is similar to this one. They are very nice machines for something like freebsd, especially if you run one of the older window managers, although it will happily run xfce, kde or gnome. I just had a quick look on ebay and spotted 3 of them straight away for 100 UK pounds, that's about $130. It's really a bargain price for what you get. Of course you are getting an older generation CPU on these, and the 4GB max RAM is starting to look a bit limited, it's probably not the right machine to run multiple VM's on for example. But you get RJ45 wired ethernet, top quality keyboard, huge array of ports and expansion options... and it will last forever.
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Thinkbook 14 g4 AMD... it's got HDMI, SD and ethernet port. Oh, and SODIMM RAM, which is upgradeable. You'll have to swap out the wifi card for an Intel-branded one, though, but that is easy. Those things are no longer sold by Lenovo, but it's not out of question to find those on Amazon or EBay...Expect to drop about $1k USD on that. Dunno if the RAM is upgradeable or not, no info on that page. At this price point, I would not worry about screen being crappy.
Most UEFI machines allow you to set the boot mode to legacy! Sadly I had to say most.
My server is hooked up to a cheap LCD on a VGA connection running at 1024x768! Bonus points that the server has a Matrox chipset from 1998!
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A lot of the server graphics chips seemed to be basic matrox or ATI. I think the modern servers in our test lab still have vga out.
I was suprised it had that much. They probably could have put in some cheapo 800x600 VESA SVGA chipset.
I get a $1650 USD quote for same hardware... and I'm on West Coast of US, same time zone as SFO/LAX.Ha, I just realised that's the 's' crippled version.
I found an actual T14 gen 6 with snapdragon cpu for less money...
Lenovo ThinkPad T14 G6 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite 32GB RAM 1TB SSD 14 Inch Windows 11 Pro Laptop - Laptops Direct
Buy Lenovo ThinkPad T14 G6 Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite 32GB RAM 1TB SSD 14 Inch Windows 11 Pro Laptop from LaptopsDirect
It's still 1549 pounds, which is $2048.
I guess that amazon 's' one is a bit of a rip-off. Anyway, none of them are cheap. As always.
. It's our own version of 'tarrifs'. Can't win...There probably aren't any basic 2d svga chipsets like that in production now. No market for them. I seem to remember seeing S3 virge in servers too, years ago.
If you really wanted to "have" one, then just boot your NVidia RTX in an old SVGA mode. I'm sure they are still in there somewhere. I wouldn't be suprised if they still have 320x200 2bpp!
