DVI Source to Mini Displayport Female Adapter 3D model

We just completed the 3D model, please see the pictures.

More details in our previous post here…

Our forum thread for further discussion here

Update!

This product is available for order! Click here for our product page!

25 Foot Mini Displayport Extension Cables Used in Dentist Chairs

One of our valued customers just recently sent us some photos of his dental office setup using our one of a kind 25 foot mini displayport extension cable. He needed this length to extend from his macbook up through his dental chair for a clean installation. As you can see from the photos below this resulted in quite a clean and elegant setup.

Beautiful Customer Setup Using Circuit Assembly Mini Displayport Adapters and Cables

We recently had a customer who we helped through setup a complicated cabling system for his tri-monitor setup. Below are his comments and setup photos just so that you can see the types of things that are possible with Circuit Assembly Mini Displayport Adapters and Cables.

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Here’s the Mac Pro under my desk prior to the move. You can see the three 15′ Mini-DisplayPort extension cables going into each of the Pro’s GT120 video cards. One of these is connected to a MiniDP-to-DP cable driving a Dell 3008WFP 30″ display. The other two go to a MiniDP-to-DVI adapter, then to two Dell 2007WP 20″ displays. The result is a three monitor desktop with a resolution of 4960×1600. I hooked everything up to test prior to pulling the cables through the in-floor conduit, just to be safe.

The cables are about to disappear into a conduit next to that right leg of the desk, and you can see an orphan VGA cable from the previous setup exiting there.

Here we go down the hole… The extra space in the floor box we’ll use to hide the DVI adapters and the end of the active USB extension cable.

Coming up the other side of the conduit in the equipment closet… The white cables are the MiniDP extensions, then there’s two USB extension cables and a RJ-11 cable for the phone at the desk.

…and after a lot of work, the equipment closet is put back together again. The Mac Pro has been moved and is the machine on the left.

And here’s a shot of the display up and running. Nice and clean under the desk!

Here’s a shot of the back of the displays. All the display and power cables snake up inside the desk leg and then are wrapped in TechFlex up to the mount. The mount is a Chief KTP320S, but it wasn’t quite big enough to hold this display configuration, so I custom fabricated the black extension brackets on the backs of the 20″ displays.

The shelf mounted under the desk on the right side of this picture is holding a surge suppressor, USB hub and the sub-woofer for the Bose Companion 5 speaker system.

That door in the background on the right leads into the equipment closet where the Mac Pro now lives.

A final shot of everything put together. Cables exit the conduit behind the foot rest and route up the inside of that center desk leg. When looking from normal walking height, all of the cabling and the under-desk hardware is unseen, and the room is completely silent (no fan noise.) Perfect!

New Circuit Assembly Product Mini Displayport and USB Extension Combo Cable

The new Apple Cinema Display is equipped with three short cables to connect to your computer. Magsafe for power, USB, and Mini Displayport. Many customers have been ordering the combination of the mini displayport extension cable as well as our USB extension cable. To save these customers money, and to promote a more aesthetically pleasing solution, we are creating a mini displayport and USB combination cable. This cable will be available in different lengths to extend the connection of both USB and Mini Displayport to your computer from your Apple monitor.

Can I Use Your Mini Displayport Female to Displayport Male Cable With The Apple Dual Link DVI Adapter?

Q: I want to hook up my older Apple Cinema Display with dual link DVI input to my new PC that has displayport output so that I can use the full resolution the monitor is capable of. Can I use your Mini Displayport Female to Displayport Male Cable in combination with the Apple Dual Link DVI to Mini Displayport Adapter?

A: We think so!

We’ve received this question a couple of times this week so we decided to try to test out our theory. We have a displayport video card in one of our PC’s and we hooked it up using a fabricated displayport to mini displayport female cable. This cable didn’t have any overmolds on the connectors like the finished product we will have in July, but it worked for testing. We plugged the USB cable for the Apple adapter into our PC for power and plugged the mini dp male onto the female mini dp end of the cable. The result was that we were able to get the 2048×1536 resolution. This adapter should be capable of 2560×1600 though.

We did encounter some issues because it seemed as if we weren’t able to change the resolution on our monitor from the PC. The 2048×1536 resolution was displaying even though our monitor was only capable of 1920×1080. We think that having the resolution limitation of the monitor may have affected our test results, we’re curious as to what would happen with this combination hooked up to the 30″ DVI Apple Cinema Display. In our test only part of our desktop was able to display on the monitor. We think there may be some issues of compatibility between the Apple adapter and the the PC or Windows OS.

To fully answer this question we will have to have a customer do a test on this adapter once we have it released and let us know whether it works or not. If anyone wants to volunteer to do the test we’d be happy to ship a cable out to you at no cost if you happen to have the Apple dual link adapter and the older Apple Cinema Display with DVI input as well as a PC with Displayport.

Let us know if you have the equipment!