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Yes, it's just a passive adapter. You'll have to detect displays in Windows to get it to see the external monitor (as per usual) but it'll behave just fine.
 
I tried this using a mini dvi to dvi and I cannot get xp under bootcamp to recognise the monitor no matter what I try. So if you do get this to work can you post how.
 
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