[G4] adc cinema display _known issues?

[Ronnie Day]

Stefan,

Are you talking about the later Cinema Display or the early models
that used the ADC connector? The later Cinema Displays are great, and
the image quality on the early ones is good, too, but they used the
Apple Display Connector (ADC). The ADC is a proprietary connector that
Apple used for a couple of years. To use a Cinema Display you must
either use a video card with the ADC connector or have the Apple ADC
to DVI converter (around $130, IIRC, but probably no longer available
new).

Apple's idea in designing the ADC was to provide power, video and USB
through one cable. A good idea, but it added more power load to an
already over stressed power bus structure in the G4s. If the Cinema
Displays you're looking at include the adapters and are real cheap it
might be worth considering. Otherwise I'd pass.

FWIW,
Ron


> Apple cinema display ADC
>
> I have found some of these for sale at very good prices.
> I´m thinking of maby get me two of these.   '
> But at wikipedia it says there were some issues about these that I don´t
> understand.
>
> Is there anything I should be worried about in this matter?
>