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Originally Posted by nana77
I guess nope, as that cable would be from the laptop to a monitor: it repleaces the hdmi, adding this standard where it doesn't needs to have two cables for that puorpose, as several monitors nowadays use one for the power delivery and one for data.
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Oh, right. Because we're also seeing upper tier displays with integrated docking stations. One cable to the notebook to connect everything.
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I recall the main issue within plasma TV was that them was power hungry (350w/450w) for screens from 42" to 50". That technology did get "stagnant", (2012 was the latest ones made) and the close OLED too become a thing on phones and tables for the most (from Samsung).
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Plasma displays also suffer from burn-in.
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BTW, that's another thing I like from the Steam's Deck: it stays around 13W/35W (also sharing GPU VRAM with RAM, as used in consoles, but rarely or never on PCs/laptops).
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Turns out running a 7-inch, 1280x800 display panel is relatively cheap both in terms of graphics performance and direct power draw.
Shared graphics memory is nearly ubiquitous on PCs. Any PC with an integrated GPU uses shared graphics memory, assuming the iGPU is not disabled and discrete graphics is used exclusively. Gaming PCs rarely use it because system RAM is typically quite slow compared to video RAM. Steam Deck, PS5 and Xbox Series could be viewed as outliers in this regard, sharing very fast DDR system RAM or going all in with GDDR for system RAM.