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Re:The hell of Apple video connectors by uuilly on Friday October 02, 2009 @10:44AM (#857099)
I'm forced to use this beast: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB571Z/A

To run a 30 in secondary display off my 17 MBP. It's flakey and I have to make my machine never sleep when it's plugged in. The other day I got a KVM switch to do windows builds and it runs through it. Fortunately I don't have a terrible case of "Fuzz of Death:" http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1837465...

But it does happen every now and again. Total PITA esp considering that their old display ports worked just fine.

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Re:The hell of Apple video connectors by chrisbolt on Friday October 02, 2009 @06:40PM (#858181)
If your 30" display supports DisplayPort, you will soon be able to get a Mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable (http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102...). Why it's taken this long, I do not know.
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