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Where you experiencing some sort of break through product? This is the mini we are talking about....
Fakey fake fake fake
Connectors don't work that way!
Connectors are generally mounted on a flat circuit board, then holes are cut in the back plastic to let the connector poke through to the outside. This means that on one side (the side soldered onto the circuit board) EVERY connector on the back of the machine is lined up.
So if you have a thinner connector such as a mini display port then the bottom side of it will be aligned with the bottom side of the USB and Power ports. The photoshopper did not understand this mechanical issue and instead aligned the two new ports so that their CENTERs matches the USB center.
For an example of this phenomena, check out the images of the back of todays Mac Mini where the DVI port is aligned with all the other ports on the bottom edge. But because the DVI is not as tall as the USB, the tops of the connectors do not align.
Connectors don't work that way!
Connectors are generally mounted on a flat circuit board, then holes are cut in the back plastic to let the connector poke through to the outside. This means that on one side (the side soldered onto the circuit board) EVERY connector on the back of the machine is lined up.
So if you have a thinner connector such as a mini display port then the bottom side of it will be aligned with the bottom side of the USB and Power ports. The photoshopper did not understand this mechanical issue and instead aligned the two new ports so that their CENTERs matches the USB center.
For an example of this phenomena, check out the images of the back of todays Mac Mini where the DVI port is aligned with all the other ports on the bottom edge. But because the DVI is not as tall as the USB, the tops of the connectors do not align.
Kind of kills the whole display part of BYODMK when you use display standards that are basically non-existent in the PC world. Unless you force everyone to buy another adapter... love the nickel and dime-ing that apple shoves down our throats.
I think Apple is only out there competing with themselves. It's why there is no gentle spectrum of changes along their computer line, but rather: underpowered, mediocre, and then super-awesome badass too expensive. They don't want anyone to have to sit in between and want them to go big or go home, and when it doesn't sell enough they let it sit there in gadget purgatory never getting updated, not having a price change, but still getting touted by Apple as being amazing and revolutionary even though it is decades old by technology standards.
The Mini and cinema displays are fine examples of this. It's atrocious that they still offer them for being a company so obsessed with innovation and new technology standards.
Because HDMI is a bag of hurt.
not true, it is because apple will not want to pay an hdmi licensing fee to use that connector. which is lame because it is so darn good.
Mini DisplayPort to HDMI doesn't require a USB port (unelss it is dual-link which I haven't seen any of).
You are getting confused with Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI (for the likes of the 30" Cinema Display) which requires a USB port for powering it.
Sorry, but this is not true. I just looked at the side of my MBP and the ports are not all in alignment with one another.
Fake!
There is absolutely no reason to have mini-DVI and mini-DisplayPort plugs since the latter provides the former.
With a mini-DVI connector you need an adapter cable anyway to get 'normal-size' DVI. So you might as well use a mini-DisplayPort -> DVI adapter.
So what's the point of both ports?!? Have either one mini-DisplayPort or two mini-DisplayPort plugs. But not one of each.
Fake!
There is absolutely no reason to have mini-DVI and mini-DisplayPort plugs since the latter provides the former.
With a mini-DVI connector you need an adapter cable anyway to get 'normal-size' DVI. So you might as well use a mini-DisplayPort -> DVI adapter.
So what's the point of both ports?!? Have either one mini-DisplayPort or two mini-DisplayPort plugs. But not one of each.
Fake!
too little too late.
They would've had me...I waited and waited and waited, but last week bought an e-fix and now life is good.
The endless delay and rumors of the Atom were the final straw. Now it is Quad Core, nVidia 9800, 4 GB RAM, and expandable goodness for me--all for close to what I expect the cost of the Mini would be if it still has a Core 2 Duo in it.
--HG
They would've had me...I waited and waited and waited, but last week bought an e-fix and now life is good.
The endless delay and rumors of the Atom were the final straw. Now it is Quad Core, nVidia 9800, 4 GB RAM, and expandable goodness for me--all for close to what I expect the cost of the Mini would be if it still has a Core 2 Duo in it.
--HG
Sure there is. DVI fulfills the "switcher" role (since there are so few DP monitors yet) and DP provides future technology paths. Besides, we Mini owners have been complaining about dual-monitor functions for years.
That's absurd. It never has before. Jeebus these lame, old arguments about everything Apple doesn't do or build because it would cut into sales of something else are really getting tiresome.
to accomodate the what 99% of the market that doesnt have mini displayport maybe?
Think of it as a transitional period mac mini, if true.
"Too hot"?
Funny, other companies are able to use them. Sorry, I'm going to bitch at Apple if they can't build a case and cooling system that can handle the same chips everyone else is using.
Are there any in a box 2" x 6.5" x 6.5" that are silent?
You've been bitchin' about the Mini for two years. Why stop now?
Of course it has.
What's lame are Steve Jobs's attempts to explain why FW was dropped from the MB.
Yes, there can be minor and trivial height variation, but not as big as in the photoshopped image that started this thread. But you don't stick on connector up half a centimeter just to look cool.
On the MBP, the smaller connectors are standard surface mount. In order to fit the Ethernet and Mini Displayport in they had to use some extra-low versions of the connectors. So the only height difference is between the special Ethernet and Displayport connectors and the STANDARD surface mount connector height found on the others. They are not deliberately "raised up" to make them mismatch.
No it doesn't!
There is no monitor I know of that connects directly to a mini-DVI plug. So you must have some sort of dongle/converter cable anyway.
And whether that's mini-DVI -> DVI or miniDisplayPort -> DVI makes no difference!
'Switchers' must buy either cable. And both are about the same price.
So there is no point in providing both 'mini' connectors.