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Mini DisplayPort to DVI-I Female Adapter for Mac by CE-Link
Digital Photo Product DetailsManufacturer: CE-Link Product features: - Support Mini DisplayPort 1.1a input and DVI output
- Support DVI highest video resolution 1080p
- Support DVI 225MHz/2.25Gbps per channel (6.75Gbps all channel) bandwidth
- Support DVI 12bit per channel (36bit all channel) deep color
- Powered from Mini DisplayPort source
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Mini DisplayPort to DVI-I Female Adapter for MacCustomer Review: Cheap and unreliable Summary: 2 Stars
Short summary: It's very cheap. But the reliability is suspect; one out of two that I purchased did not work. Technically you could buy a handful, with a good statistical chance of getting one that would work, and still pay less than for Apple's premium adapter. But that's a lot of annoyance. In the end I had to use Apple's.
I purchased this item because of the positive reviews and because it is so much cheaper than Apple's comparable product. I had previously purchased one for a coworker, and his adapter worked perfectly, allowing him to use a second widescreen display with his iMac. I had the same setup, and purchased the same adapter for myself. However, it did not work. I did not at first suspect the adapter, since how could something so simple as an adapter be bad??? That was my mistaken assumption. I called the display maker, and they insisted it must be the computer. I called Apple support, and they walked me through numerous processes before basically giving up. I finally took the whole setup ... the display, the DVI-D cable, the adapter ... to my workplace, where I tested it with my coworker's system, and realized that the defective part was the adapter itself. (I had previously taken my adapter to work to test separately, simply swapping it out with my coworker's identical adapter, and oddly it had worked then. But something kept it from working with my DVI-D cable and display, whereas my coworker's identical adapter DID work with my cable and display. Very weird.)
Unfortunately by this time many weeks had passed. There was the time trying to figure it out on my own. There was the time lost to trying one vendor, then another, looking for answers. Then I was away from home. Then I finally figured it out on my own, and ordered an Apple adapter. But by the time I received that, and had a working setup, I had passed my 30-day return period. I doubt I could return the item for a refund, given shipping costs, etc., and recover anything. So I just considering it an unfortunate loss.
Description of Mini DisplayPort to DVI-I Female Adapter for MacThe Mini DisplayPort is a miniaturized version of the DisplayPort used by Apple. It is used in revisions of the MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro notebooks, iMac, Mac Mini, and Mac Pro desktops and also the 24-inch Apple Cinema Display. This mini Displayport adapter offers solutions for digital entertainment center, HDTV retail and show site, HDTV, STB, DVD and Projector factory, noise space and security concerns, data center control, information distribution, conference room presentation, school and corporate training environments.
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