Mini DVi to DVI adaptor question


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I should be able to order myself a mac mini by the end of the year ( posted here about it earlier ) but someone said that the mini Dvi to DVI adaptor supplied is only short about a few inches or so. Is this true and is there a longer cable available ?? or are there cables out there to extend the length ?

TIA

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You don't use the adapter to connect your monitor. You're supposed to connect a DVI cable to the adapter and connect that to your monitor. The adapter is just to convert mini DVI to DVI.

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Cheers for that !! :D makes sense now. You can tell i'm used to a pc where you hook the monitor straight to the graphics card !

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Cheers for that !! :D makes sense now. You can tell i'm used to a pc where you hook the monitor straight to the graphics card !

Same concept. :p

It's like when graphics cards started coming with DVI and you might not have had a DVI monitor yet, so you got the VGA-to-DVI converter cable (at least I remember when that happened; I don't know if anybody else does :laugh:). However, Apple just lets you use your own long cable and supplies the short converter. That way, they don't have to worry about manufacturing several different lengths of the same cable.

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