Why a new video card from NVIDIA don't have a Mini Display Port?

[Mac_Max]

Actually Apple didn't really have anything to do with DVI taking off. USB yes, DVI no. DVI took off when large enough LCD displays became cheap enough for people to be interested in. A DVI port for an Analog CRT monitor is a bit of a waste of time and effort so no one ever implemented it unless you were talking about a really expensive monitor.

Also, the answer to why the Mini Display Port isn't on the Mac GTX is a simple one. EVGA is simply going to use the reference PCB like they do for their PC cards... in fact... they're just going to flash their standard PC card with an EFI ROM.

 

[RemarkabLee]

Not really, no. It would not be worth the expenditure to produce or sell (too expensive and requires its own power) one, either.

Technically it would be possible, I'm certain. As for the expense, initially I'd imagine it would not be cheap as it would be for a specialist target market but as DisplayPort is adopted more the price would no doubt fall.

 

[grue]

Also, the answer to why the Mini Display Port isn't on the Mac GTX is a simple one. EVGA is simply going to use the reference PCB like they do for their PC cards... in fact... they're just going to flash their standard PC card with an EFI ROM.

and thank Xenu for that. The last thing we need is a huge price premium because they had to re engineer a bunch of stuff to use MDP.