<strong>Last time I looked, Dell weren't making ADC-compatible monitors.
Apples/Pears... (pardon the pun)</strong><hr></blockquote>
All DIV monitors are ADC compatible via the $40 Apple ADC to DVI adapter. ADC is DVI. The only difference is the unnecessary power and USB added out the ADC port. The above adapter just ignores those unnecessary and harmful integrated power and USB signals.
They all have analog VGA and digital DVI ports. Many also have analog S-Video and Composite Video ports. Get off the ADC bus. ADC is a power supply, heat HOG. Everyone should spread the word: use an Apple $40 ADC to DVI adapter to keep the heat down inside your MDDs and other heat hating ? translation FAN NOISE GENERATING Apple Macs. DVI is the only way to go.
All ADC ports should be treated as a mistake corrected with an Apple $40 ADC to DVI adapter. No one should buy ADC monitors. This is the only way to get Apple to stop selling them. They are an engineering mistake.
This is merely my humble opinion. I could be wrong and those of you who think otherwise could be right and I respect your opinion. I am not trying to make anyone mad. I feel strongly about what I perceive to be the mistake of ADC. It is one of my pet peeves. OK?
<strong>Apple tends to give away sand at the beach, so this shouldn't be a shocker.
For example, their 17" LCD Display is regularly priced at $999 but they offer a discount when you purchase it with a system. Well, Dell's 17" display (which uses the same LCD manufacturer as Apple and has better support for their products) is $699 - off the shelf any old day of the week. This week however, Dell is offering 15% off of that price to any home consumer.
So the choice is left to the consumer, black plastic casing or clear plastic casing? Same LCD, just a different case. Apple tends to think lucite is worth the $300+ premium. Sure, Apple doesn't have the high volume sales advantage to drop prices AS low - no one expects that. $799 should be their daily price for the 17" LCD.
Anyway, the point is that Apple's prices are completely out of line (which we all know and has been beaten to death) so silly little deals like this are ridiculous coming from a company which should be slashing prices to get 'switchers' to increase share. Instead, they rely on MacBots that will ignore their heinous support practices, ridiculous prices and poor performance offerings. The only thing I hate about being a Mac user is dealing with such people who can't see what is really going on!
Yeah, but this is just smart business. Some people will buy products because they're new, others will buy products because they're discounted (whether or not it's a good deal), others if they think they're saving money, others wait for decent price drops on the regular price and refuse to buy into the gimmicky rebate and promo and coupon and percent-off deals, regardless of worth. Apple is smart to appeal to each of them; we know that eventually a display pricedrop is in the pipeline, so don't chastise Apple for marketing pricedrops in one way or another to appeal to different customers (and possibly save a little money).
I don't see why someone would buy from the online apple store when they could buy from somewhere like macmall which doesn't charge sales tax. Even with the extra free ram its still cheaper to buy the same mac from an online site like macmall.
Now all the 'extras' macmall tosses in are mostly bs, you pay for them all then have to send off for rebates to get your money back in 4-6 weeks.
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Apples/Pears... (pardon the pun)
<strong>Last time I looked, Dell weren't making ADC-compatible monitors.
Apples/Pears... (pardon the pun)</strong><hr></blockquote>
apples and potatoes or lemons would have been funnier...
and if you have a TiBook a DVI monitor is much better then an ADC monitor because then you dont need to buy a(n overpriced) converter...
<strong>Last time I looked, Dell weren't making ADC-compatible monitors.
Apples/Pears... (pardon the pun)</strong><hr></blockquote>
All DIV monitors are ADC compatible via the $40 Apple ADC to DVI adapter. ADC is DVI. The only difference is the unnecessary power and USB added out the ADC port. The above adapter just ignores those unnecessary and harmful integrated power and USB signals.
The Dell link:
<a href="http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/category.asp?customer_id=04&category_id=4009"; target="_blank">http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/category.asp?customer_id=04&category_id=4009</a>;
They all have analog VGA and digital DVI ports. Many also have analog S-Video and Composite Video ports. Get off the ADC bus. ADC is a power supply, heat HOG. Everyone should spread the word: use an Apple $40 ADC to DVI adapter to keep the heat down inside your MDDs and other heat hating ? translation FAN NOISE GENERATING Apple Macs. DVI is the only way to go.
All ADC ports should be treated as a mistake corrected with an Apple $40 ADC to DVI adapter. No one should buy ADC monitors. This is the only way to get Apple to stop selling them. They are an engineering mistake.
This is merely my humble opinion. I could be wrong and those of you who think otherwise could be right and I respect your opinion. I am not trying to make anyone mad. I feel strongly about what I perceive to be the mistake of ADC. It is one of my pet peeves. OK?
[ 10-15-2002: Message edited by: Multimedia ]</p>
<strong>Apple tends to give away sand at the beach, so this shouldn't be a shocker.
For example, their 17" LCD Display is regularly priced at $999 but they offer a discount when you purchase it with a system. Well, Dell's 17" display (which uses the same LCD manufacturer as Apple and has better support for their products) is $699 - off the shelf any old day of the week. This week however, Dell is offering 15% off of that price to any home consumer.
So the choice is left to the consumer, black plastic casing or clear plastic casing? Same LCD, just a different case. Apple tends to think lucite is worth the $300+ premium. Sure, Apple doesn't have the high volume sales advantage to drop prices AS low - no one expects that. $799 should be their daily price for the 17" LCD.
Anyway, the point is that Apple's prices are completely out of line (which we all know and has been beaten to death) so silly little deals like this are ridiculous coming from a company which should be slashing prices to get 'switchers' to increase share. Instead, they rely on MacBots that will ignore their heinous support practices, ridiculous prices and poor performance offerings. The only thing I hate about being a Mac user is dealing with such people who can't see what is really going on!
[ 10-12-2002: Message edited by: Patchouli ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, but this is just smart business. Some people will buy products because they're new, others will buy products because they're discounted (whether or not it's a good deal), others if they think they're saving money, others wait for decent price drops on the regular price and refuse to buy into the gimmicky rebate and promo and coupon and percent-off deals, regardless of worth. Apple is smart to appeal to each of them; we know that eventually a display pricedrop is in the pipeline, so don't chastise Apple for marketing pricedrops in one way or another to appeal to different customers (and possibly save a little money).
Now all the 'extras' macmall tosses in are mostly bs, you pay for them all then have to send off for rebates to get your money back in 4-6 weeks.