I guess I'm the only one who doesn't care about the tape and would in fact like to know about the monitor out which is obviously not a mini VGA connector but in fact a mini displayport. Common Engadget, mind hooking it up to one of those new apple monitors and letting us know if it works? You claim in your review that its a mini VGA but you obviously did not look at the connector itself.
One thing I did learn from my time owning an aluminum MacBook... I hate the mini DisplayPort. It's a horrible idea. Yes, I get it-- No need for all those other ports; Instead, make the consumer need to pick up a different adapter for everything, and hope like hell that the computer and video card will work with the displays via this horrible little port.
But in practice the thing sucks. I liked my MacBook, but hated the mini DisplayPort. It was horribly unfriendly to VGA, it was nitpicky with DVI displays, and to get to HDMI I needed to convert to DVI, then to HDMI, as well as running a line for audio separately. What a pain in the butt.
My new computer is an ASUS G50 series, and it has HDMI built in. I love it. No fighting, no adapters, no worries. I just plug it into the display via HDMI and I get audio AND video, as HDMI is meant to do.
Part of why I switched was that stupid mini DisplayPort. For $1300 I'd think Apple could throw us a bone and give us a damn HDMI port.
First off I'm not sure what your post has to do with mine. Displayport is way better then VGA. I have never heard anybody complain about displayport not working, works great on my brothers unibody macbook pro. Its a non proprietary standard with no licensing fees and a far superior physical connector to hdmi. hdmi works great in my home theatre and I am happy letting my 805 work with it. Wether you actually owned a unibody macbook or not. You are wrong about the adapters. http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802&p_id=5311&seq=1&format=2 monoprice has a variety of affordable adapters to meet your needs, including mini displayport to hdmi for $12. Good luck going from hdmi to vga, though I don't use vga myself. You will still need an adapter to go from hdmi to dvi. Displayport is the future for computers not hdmi, it is far more versatile including the ability for bidirectional auxiliary channels such as audio, usb and webcams etc..... you can read about it here: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/the_myth_of_an_hdmi_displayport_standoff
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I guess I'm the only one who doesn't care about the tape and would in fact like to know about the monitor out which is obviously not a mini VGA connector but in fact a mini displayport. Common Engadget, mind hooking it up to one of those new apple monitors and letting us know if it works? You claim in your review that its a mini VGA but you obviously did not look at the connector itself.
Engadget please.
Here are the pictures:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/images/article/inline/10793-img9753s.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mini_DisplayPort_on_Apple_MacBook.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mini-VGA.jpg
Unless your version is different from the pictures I have seen, it is a mini displayport. So will it work as one? or will it only work with vga.
One thing I did learn from my time owning an aluminum MacBook... I hate the mini DisplayPort. It's a horrible idea. Yes, I get it-- No need for all those other ports; Instead, make the consumer need to pick up a different adapter for everything, and hope like hell that the computer and video card will work with the displays via this horrible little port.
But in practice the thing sucks. I liked my MacBook, but hated the mini DisplayPort. It was horribly unfriendly to VGA, it was nitpicky with DVI displays, and to get to HDMI I needed to convert to DVI, then to HDMI, as well as running a line for audio separately. What a pain in the butt.
My new computer is an ASUS G50 series, and it has HDMI built in. I love it. No fighting, no adapters, no worries. I just plug it into the display via HDMI and I get audio AND video, as HDMI is meant to do.
Part of why I switched was that stupid mini DisplayPort. For $1300 I'd think Apple could throw us a bone and give us a damn HDMI port.
First off I'm not sure what your post has to do with mine. Displayport is way better then VGA. I have never heard anybody complain about displayport not working, works great on my brothers unibody macbook pro. Its a non proprietary standard with no licensing fees and a far superior physical connector to hdmi. hdmi works great in my home theatre and I am happy letting my 805 work with it. Wether you actually owned a unibody macbook or not. You are wrong about the adapters. http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802&p_id=5311&seq=1&format=2
monoprice has a variety of affordable adapters to meet your needs, including mini displayport to hdmi for $12. Good luck going from hdmi to vga, though I don't use vga myself. You will still need an adapter to go from hdmi to dvi. Displayport is the future for computers not hdmi, it is far more versatile including the ability for bidirectional auxiliary channels such as audio, usb and webcams etc..... you can read about it here:
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/the_myth_of_an_hdmi_displayport_standoff