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Why did apple switch back to DVI
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I think the ADC display was not only a more stylish and beautiful display, but the simplicity of it was amazing, one cable for display connection, power, and USB, I thought it was genius. I think that the power brick and the need to connect 5 cables to the back of your computer is a downgrade, even considering they have firewire built in...
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Expensive proprietary interface with a marginal benefit? 
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My vote then: no, I don't prefer ADC. I much prefer industry-standard technologies like DVI.
(Last edited by Cold Warrior; Jun 23, 2007 at 10:48 PM.
(Reason:Sub corrected me on the poll.))
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The poll is a "do you prefer ADC displays" question as it says on the top...
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I doesn't matter to me. I just wish Apple would add analog inputs to their cinema displays (SVideo/VGA/Component Video) so that I could run by TV and XBox 360 into them directly. Yes, I know the form factor would get messed with, but it would would suit ME, which is the point. lol.
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Personally, I do prefer the ADC connector. Power from the computer was a good idea, but moving to the 30-inch arena just didn't cut it. However, Apple still keeps it as a single cable out from the current Cinema Displays. I just put the power brick underneath the PowerMac G5.
Sure, after I upgraded the graphics card to a dual DVI-out Radeon 9600 Pro (Mac+PC), I had to get an Apple DVI-to-ADC adapter.
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So basically:
the displays are sweet, but the connector sux, not because of form or function, but because it is proprietary in all the ways that being proprietary sux........
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While ADC was elegant, the computer's internal power supplies can't economically supply power to big displays like 24" and 30" displays. Apple would have to build expensive power supplies into the desktop Macs to accommodate the 30" when most customers wont be using it. And how would one possibly fit inside a Mac mini or a laptop. And making everyone buy a $100 external box like it did originally with its DVI-to-ADC adapters is a big hassle and an extra expense people don't want. Its less expensive for both Apple and the buyer to have the monitor's power supply come with the monitor and not the computer.
ADC was nifty, but I'm glad its gone. I had to deal with an ADC-to-DVI adapter, first with a 1GHz PowerBook G4 and an ADC-based 22" Cinema Display, and then with a PowerMac G4 and an Apple 17" LCD Studio Display. In the second case, the G4's original video card (an ATI Rage128) had an ADC port, but the card it was upgraded with (ATI Radeon 8500 Pro) did not.
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Going back to DVI made it simpler to add USB2 and FireWire ports to Apple Displays.
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