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BlackBook: Mini-DVI to DVI Adapter not "snapping" into place?
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I usually sell my laptops after a few years in order to help pay for a newer model. I would not feel right knowingly selling someone a defective model. That means, if I were to sell it, I would have to announce the defect and lower the price as a result. Why should I have to lose money for Apple's greedy skimping on quality control?
I also have a 2.4 BlackBook and my Mini-DVI to VGA adapter does not snap into place. It fits snugly, but no tactile or audible snap.
I have a white MB 2.1GHz and my Mini-DVI to DVI adapter doesn't really snap too.
I has like friction that keeps it in - but no real snap or anything.
I has like friction that keeps it in - but no real snap or anything.
I have a white MacBook from two months ago, the adapter does snap in to place on it (you can hear a snap sound).
Funny thing about 'stress'. The Genius said... "Well there shouldn't be any stress on the connector."
Hmmm.... but Apple doesn't make a docking station! And anyone using a external display I'm sure doesn't have the laptop still on a flat surface! Yes, it's on an iCurve! Yes there will inheriently be a little 'stress' on the connector. (My iCurve is far left on my desk, so the cable is pretty far down. (not to the floor but propped up by the side of me desk and the ACD power block.
Mine is on an iCurve, too. With my properly working Mini-DVI port on my white Merom/Santa Rosa MacBook 2.2, the connector is almost flush to the body, and it wouldn't make much of a difference if it was on a flat surface. With the BlackBook 2.4, the connector is a few millimeters not flush due to gravity along with the iCurve.
Maybe the fact that all three didn't "snap" and nobody has found one that does "snap" means they aren't supposed to "snap." My Mini-DVI cord does not "snap" with either my Powerbook or my iMac. Funny enough, I've used it with the PB for years, and now I use it with the iMac, and I've never had a problem.
OK, I have an early 2008 Blackbook.
The connector in question does snap.
HOWEVER, the snap is a subtle one. It is not some loud snap that keeps the connector very firmly in place. It is a quiet, or soft snap and the connector itself still can move around a bit, although being fully seated into the Blackbook.
It has not been an issue for me.
I do take care to not have the DVI cable from my external display in a position to pull hard at an odd angle on the Macbook's mini DVI connector, just to be safe.
The connector in question does snap.
HOWEVER, the snap is a subtle one. It is not some loud snap that keeps the connector very firmly in place. It is a quiet, or soft snap and the connector itself still can move around a bit, although being fully seated into the Blackbook.
It has not been an issue for me.
I do take care to not have the DVI cable from my external display in a position to pull hard at an odd angle on the Macbook's mini DVI connector, just to be safe.