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9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence: MacBooks, monitors and DisplayPort: a primer
Macworld: DisplayPort: What you need to know
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop: Apple offers free licensing for Mini DisplayPort spec
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News: Apple Licensing Out Mini DisplayPort Spec For Free
MacBooks, monitors and DisplayPort: a primer
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... DisplayPort isn't an Apple technology - it's an emerging I/O standard that's designed for video - effectively in the running against HDMI. ...
DisplayPort: What you need to know
Macworld —
... replaces the DVI and mini-DVI interfaces found on older models. But is this another proprietary debacle like Apple’s failed Apple Display Connector (ADC) standard? No. DisplayPort is, in fact, an open industry standard promoted by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA), the same group that determines standard sizes for flat panel display mounts, for example. And Apple isn’t the only company supporting DisplayPort. HP, Philips, Samsung, Lenovo, AMD, Nvidia, Intel and many other companies have thrown their weight behind the standard, so we’ll be seeing a lot more ...
Apple offers free licensing for Mini DisplayPort spec
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop —
... to anyone interested in developing products that use the Mini DisplayPort specification. Mini DisplayPort is an Apple-designed miniature version of the VESA-approved DisplayPort , which fully supports the protocol while offering a more compact connector. Apple has used miniaturized versions of VGA and DVI on all previous MacBooks, as well as many iBooks and the 12" PowerBook G4. The first-generation MacBook Air even used a Micro-DVI connector. Mini DisplayPort carries on that tradition but has one important difference: Apple plans to use the Mini DisplayPort across its ...
Apple Licensing Out Mini DisplayPort Spec For Free
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... The Mini DisplayPort is a smaller version of the DisplayPort. Apple has officially announced that all of their future products will use the Mini DisplayPort spec. “Apple has already designed and shipped the 24″ LED Cinema Display that uses Mini DisplayPort as its sole connection, and Apple is hoping that other display, graphics card, and computer vendors will adopt Mini DisplayPort, making it a de facto standard, unlike Mini-VGA and Mini-DVI, which were essentially Apple-only,” Ars explains. ...
Review: Apple LED Cinema Display
Macworld —
... ( [image] ) models, marked the end of Apple’s use of its proprietary Apple Display Connector (ADC) in favor of the industry standard DVI connection. The new LED Cinema Display introduces quite a few new technologies to Apple’s display lineup, the most controversial of which is yet another proprietary connector, the Apple-developed Mini DisplayPort (Mini DisplayPort is based on DisplayPort technology developed by ...


