Ultrabooks and projectors: is there any connectivity issue due to low power on video output? [closed]

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Published on 2013-06-24T15:32:31Z Indexed on 2013/06/24 16:24 UTC
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I need to buy a new laptop for my wife. She travels a lot and I was thinking about an ultrabook (1.5-2 kg). However she says that ultrabooks have problems connecting to projectors. At least some of her colleagues could not connect their ultrabooks to projectors due to “low output issues”.

She is in-company consultant and trainer and for her “be able to connect to any client projector” requirement is must.

Thus my doubts are:

Is this problem well known?
Is there any chance to assure connectivity to projector (by checking some specification before buy, etc)?

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