Re: Developer Transition Kit: DVI-VGA adapter cable? Non-Apple monitors?
Re: Developer Transition Kit: DVI-VGA adapter cable? Non-Apple monitors?
- Subject: Re: Developer Transition Kit: DVI-VGA adapter cable? Non-Apple monitors?
- From: Ted Thibodeau Jr <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:18:36 -0400
* Dan Smith [2005/08/02 02:44 PM -0400] wrote:
> I, too, told my management that the Developer Transition Kit would
> cost only $1000, and did not notice that it will not work with an
> ordinary monitor. Does anyone know what the options are?
>
> --will the $19 Apple DVI to VGA Display Adapter, part number M8754G/A,
> work with the Developer Transition Kit hardware and allow a regular
> VGA analog-signal monitor to be used with it? (If not, why not?)
No. DVI-I is necessary for a VGA monitor to be used. DVI-D is all
the little card in the Transition Kit will drive. Presumably, any
PCI video card with Mac OS X drivers could be used, but... that's
a craps shoot at best.
> Description says:
>
> The Apple DVI to VGA display adapter was specially designed to allow
> users to connect their DVI equipped Mac mini, PowerBook G4, or Power
> Mac to an external VGA monitor or projector for 24-bit video-mirroring
> or dual display. The DVI to VGA adapter plugs into the DVI port built
> into the new Mac mini, a PowerBook G4 or into Power Mac with NVIDIA
> or ATI Radeon graphic cards which feature DVI ports.
This adapter description is insufficient, as is the description of the
card in the Transition Kit. Neither mentions that the TK's card is
DVI-D, nor that the adapter requires a DVI-I port.
(The difference between the DVI-D and DVI-I ports is subtle, and amounts
to the little bar of copper at one end of the connector, found on the
DVI-I connector, for which there is no corresponding slot on the DVI-D
connector...)
> --Can I use a moderately-priced 17" display like an HP L1740, which
> costs about $360 and has "connector type: 24-pin Digital DVI;
> Interface (Output) DVI-D?"
Yes, this should work fine.
> --Or am I forced to break the news to management that I need Apple's
> no doubt worthy but pricey $800 20" Cinema and that what I told them
> was a $1000 purchase is actually going to end up costing nearly twice
> what I told them? (Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know... the power savings will
> pay for itself eventually etc).
Not necessary. Very pretty, and I like working on it, but it's
overkill for this machine which in my case is primarily used by
remote users via VNC and other such technologies...
Be seeing you,
Ted
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