But if you want to connect a computer to your TV (or you've got a new computer monitor), the options tend to be HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI, and sometimes old-school VGA.

Adapters are available to connect VGA monitors to laptops that have HDMI or DisplayPort. NPD In-Stat is forecasting shipments of devices with DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort to pass 2 billion by 2015.

The conversion has to involve a framebuffer, because you can't fully write a VGA frame without having the whole DisplayPort frame buffered. DVI-D to VGA is more or less the same.

The rest of the industry, larger for most of Apple's history, decided VGA was the way to go, then DVI, and DisplayPort. Fortunately, it's all mostly settled on HDMI.

DisplayPort is compatible with select devices that have other types of connections, such as VGA, DVI, and HDMI, using an adapter or adapter cable per any additional requirements.

So that kind of tells me that VGA is more low level, or something like that, compared to say DVI or DisplayPort. i.e. no drivers necessary for the device to work at all.

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You might also have a DVI or VGA connection, which will work but have limitations. Neither of these outdated standards is as good as HDMI or DisplayPort, only supporting resolutions around 1080p.