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Connecting Cinema Display to a PC?
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Join Date: Feb 2001
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I know, it's terrible, isn't it?
At work we're trying to hook up an Apple Cinema Display to a PC laptop. Don't ask why. Is this possible at all? We have an adapter that splits the cable from the monitor into the separate power, usb, and video components, but does an adapter exist to convert from this video cable to the PC's DB15 port?
Thanks for any help.
Phil.
Edit: Should have asked more specifically, would this cable do the job? http://www.directdial.com/us/shop/it...tem=P126%2D000
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this is the box of tricks you are after..
Gefen ex•tend•it it connects computers with VGA graphic cards to ADC Flat Panel Displays.
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Originally posted by Nivag:
this is the box of tricks you are after..
Gefen ex•tend•it it connects computers with VGA graphic cards to ADC Flat Panel Displays.
Thanks Nivag, that looks good, but unfortunately its quite out of the price range we were considering. The cable I linked to in my post is only $19, and I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work, considering we already have a box that splits the ADC cable into separate power, USB and DVI video cables.
I was just hoping someone here could confirm that with experience.
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Originally posted by petrol:
Thanks Nivag, that looks good, but unfortunately its quite out of the price range we were considering. The cable I linked to in my post is only $19, and I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work, considering we already have a box that splits the ADC cable into separate power, USB and DVI video cables.
I was just hoping someone here could confirm that with experience.
Unless you have a very rare PC laptop with on-board DVI video, there's no way to connect a digital display to the laptop's analog VGA video without the rather pricey VGA-to-DVI conversion device linked above.
Its got nothing to do with the display being an Apple product; analog VGA and digital DVI are two completely different technologies.
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It's not going to be cheap to hook up the monitor. For the cost of the adaptor, you could buy a 17" CRT or maybe better.
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