{"id":1499,"date":"2008-10-18T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T17:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2556"},"modified":"2010-05-08T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:11:01","slug":"re-more-tradeoffs-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/18\/re-more-tradeoffs-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: More tradeoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A correction regarding Apple&#8217;s mini-DisplayPort connector. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.displayport.org\/\">DisplayPort<\/a> organization&#8217;s page is none too clear, and the actual standards aren&#8217;t available for free, but it now appears that Apple has been instrumental in working with them to define the new mini connector; unlike past &#8220;minis&#8221; adopted by Apple, this seems to be a bona-fide standard. So there&#8217;s real hope of it being more widely adopted by other manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see any major advantage in the full-size DisplayPort connector, except perhaps for the optional locking mechanism on the plug. Don&#8217;t expect it to appear in any Apple products; in any event, mini-to-full cables will probably be sold by third parties.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an interesting picture on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.displayport.org\/open\/Interoperability.htm\">the interoperability page<\/a>: it shows what appears to be a previous-generation MacBook, with USB, FW400, FW800, S-VHS and the full-size DisplayPort connector. Looks like a Photoshop job to me&#8230; <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_smile.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A correction regarding Apple&#8217;s mini-DisplayPort connector. The DisplayPort organization&#8217;s page is none too clear, and the actual standards aren&#8217;t available for free, but it now appears that Apple has been instrumental in working with them to define the new mini connector; unlike past &#8220;minis&#8221; adopted by Apple, this seems to be a bona-fide standard. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware","tag-mac"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}