How Apple makes more profit on their systems...

kenta kenta at guster.net
Mon Oct 5 09:52:12 EDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
>  FYI, "Mini DisplayPort" is apparently Yet Another Apple Proprietary
> Connector.  Apple does love making goofy connectors.  I guess it's
> somewhat forgivable in this case, given the small form factor of the
> Mini.  And at least it actually gives you all the pins of the original
> connector.  (Apple has introduced at least two SCSI connectors which
> sacrifice signal lines.)

Actually in this case, they made it well enough that it's now part of
the DisplayPort 1.2 specification.



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