Apple Thunderbolt Display on DVI

No.

ActionableMango said:

No.

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It isn't impossible. With enough gyrations most things can be coupled to each other.

The question of whether the DVI graphics card is forward compatible with Thunderbolt. That's a straight no.

However, if someone built a powered Thunderbolt dongle with a DVI pass-thru and small computer to drive the thunderbolt switch control logic and the PCI-e lanes then it would work. It would probably cost $150-200.

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silvercircle said:

I don't think it it wise to buy the DVI version in case I want to replace my Mac Pro in the future with something else which will have Thunderbolt.

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That's a highly dubious assertion since the the Thunderbolt connector on a mac is backward compatible with the DVI display.

The only minor constraint is that you have put the display on the end of a Thunderbolt chain. The display that works on both TB and DVI macs is the the DVI one.


It is extremely likely though that future Mac Pros will come with Graphic cards with mainstream connectors (i.e., not Thunderbolt). That isn't even "backward" compatible ... that's it is the same compatible.

PCI-e graphics cards with Thunderbolt connectors are extremely unlikely to appear any time soon if ever.

can you plug the monitor into a card that has a mini display port slot, or get a female mini display adaptor > dvi? data wount work bu you can get a video signal

d-m-a-x said:

can you plug the monitor into a card that has a mini display port slot, or get a female mini display adaptor > dvi? data wount work bu you can get a video signal

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No. It only works with a Thunderbolt port.

thunderbolt sends data as if it were on a pci-e port
dvi sends data as if it were connected to a video card.

So..fundamentally incompatable