Laptop with HDMI

swegyptian
swegyptian Posts: 316
edited August 2009 in The Clubhouse
Hey guys,

I am probably getting a new laptop, mostly for my girlfriend's work, as she will be traveling for work a bit more in the next month or so, and she needs it to connect to her work network. My thought was to get one with HDMI to connect to our TV, so we can make good use of them together with a wireless mouse and keyboard. So where can I find a cheap laptop with HDMI out? And some that I have seen have HDMI out, but their own display is far less than 1920x1080, can they still output 1920x1080 with the correct display drivers?

Thanks!
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  • kawizx9r
    kawizx9r Posts: 5,150
    edited August 2009
    DVI in my experience was always easier to find and those work well with DVI to vga and/or HDMI adapters. Goodluck with your search though!
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  • Grimster74
    Grimster74 Posts: 2,573
    edited August 2009
    Here is the Dell I'm using right now that I purchased for my wife which has HDMI output. Has been running like a top every since I purchased it other than my kids downloading a game that corrupted it which has been fixed. Great laptop for the price with plenty of everything. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9353371&type=product&id=1218090330700
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited August 2009
    Im using Dell XPS1530 and it does HDMI. I had it running to my PJ surfing club Polk on the 126" screen. Pretty cool indeed and audio worked great as well.
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  • swegyptian
    swegyptian Posts: 316
    edited August 2009
    So can you guys run 1920x1080 even if the laptop display won't support that? Does it detect the new display through HDMI and allow you to change to the higher resolution?
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited August 2009
    You'll have to switch it over to HDMI-only (nothing on the laptop screen) before it will allow a different resolution from the laptops native. I haven't actually tried it, but there's a Sony Vaio at work with HDMI that I'll have to bring home for "testing" one of these nights.
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  • psomers
    psomers Posts: 37
    edited August 2009
    Tiger Direct always has a few decent deals.
    No affiliation. Here's a Gateway.

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  • swegyptian
    swegyptian Posts: 316
    edited August 2009
    I saw that one, seems like a good price. I was also considering a dell mini with HDMI, but this one is only $80 more, and seems like a much better machine.

    Thanks guys!
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited August 2009
    I bought this Gateway laptop about 2 years ago.. and it has HDMI. I have had zero problems with it. still use it every day.

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  • nguyendot
    nguyendot Posts: 3,594
    edited August 2009
    My Hp has HDMI on it and it works very well going out to a tv with HDMI or DVI (with an adapter cable).

    This Dell has displayport... i'll see how it does with displayport to dvi and displayport to hdmi....
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  • psomers
    psomers Posts: 37
    edited August 2009
    I would stay away from the Mini unless you grab the extended warranty.
    We use them at work , and the have a high failure rate, especially the keybd's.
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited August 2009
    I have a Dell w/HDMI output; we hook it up to our older HD TV via HDMI-to-DVI interface cable (Radio Shack) and watch HULU reruns all the time!
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  • thebluemonkey
    thebluemonkey Posts: 190
    edited August 2009
    Our hp has hdmi output and it works great with netflix
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  • goingganzo
    goingganzo Posts: 2,793
    edited August 2009
    look at the dell xps 1530
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  • I-SIG
    I-SIG Posts: 2,238
    edited August 2009
    My Dell Studio XPS 16 has an HDMI. I haven't used it yet since I ran out of HDMI inputs on my plasma.

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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited August 2009
    I just picked up a Sony Vaio VGN-NW150J at Best Buy last night. Both my personal laptop and my girlfriend's crapped out within the last week.

    Liking it so far, for the most part. It's lightning fast most of the time with 4GB of RAM and 2.1 GHz duo core T6500 processorm but occassionally it bogs down for unexpected reasons.

    I'm going to blame that and a couple strange error messages here and there on Vista. Can't wait for my free upgrade to Windows 7.

    Anyone else have this model, or others I should look at in the $600 - $800 range? This one looks AWESOME and has HDMI and Bluray, which is nice. . .
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