Re: The DDC situation - A Christmas wish
Re: The DDC situation - A Christmas wish
- Subject: Re: The DDC situation - A Christmas wish
- From: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:56:41 -0800 (PST)
Will,
Not to side-track the discussion into an OS sling-fest, but all these "inconveniences" you list were anticipated and expected at the time Apple decided to offer a dual-platform architecture, because they know the diversity would appeal to many people who use applications that are better suited to or only useable on the one or the other. Their sales figures seem to justify the decision they made. There's no free lunch. More flexibility = a few extra steps and bucks. This is the single recent feature change on the Mac offering which seriously tempts me the buy a Mac when I'm ready to up-grade from my Dell 690 Precision Workstation (state of the art Windows machine in late 2006).
The testing you did is fine for the specific case you tested, but from what I've been reading and discussing with one software developer in the business, there is much randomness to the success of DDC functionality because of the huge number of video card and display models - with their individual firmwares - out there, the lack of a common set of protocols for implementing DDC and the unwillingness of some of these manufacturers to provide an adequate SDK to third parties. It would seem to me, if this is a correct description of the situation, that a sample of one is not an adequate basis for making a general statement about the suitability of a platform for supporting the functionality under discussion.
Mark
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From: William Hollingworth <email@hidden>
To: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>; email@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:19:31 AM
Subject: Re: The DDC situation - A Christmas wish
At 07:55 PM 12/22/2008, MARK SEGAL wrote:
>Why should you "hate to ..........suggest" that people use
>Windows? if it works, fine. Isn't choice of technology about what works?
Aside from the "indignity" of a user installing Windows on a Mac to
accomplish something that should have been supported correctly and
natively by Mac OS in the first place, there is the cost of a Windows
license, time, effort and huge inconvenience - to mention a few reasons.
>Anyhow, it doesn't necessarily work on Windows either. :-). In some
>configurations it does, in others it doesn't. My recent experience.
>
In the specific case that I noted (new MacBook with a DisplayPort ->
DVI adapter), testing has proven that the hardware is fully
functional on Windows using BootCamp. This has also been the case
with several other "problem" models in the past.
Will
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