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I went through a real cursed search last summer trying to find a series of adapters to connect an Apple Cinema Display, which only has an attached mini-DisplayP

I went through a real cursed search last summer trying to find a series of adapters to connect an Apple Cinema Display, which only has an attached mini-DisplayPort male cable, to a standard PC with only HDMI and DVI. Female mDP to male DP exists, but there's no way forward from there to convert male DP to male HDMI/DVI. I stumbled across female-DP to female-DP, which I thought was my holy grail until it couldn't power on the display. I learned about the difference between active and passive DisplayPort that day. Eventually I just bought a different GPU that had mini-Displayport.

nixpulvis 7y ago
Just try connecting a modern Mac to FireWire 400... You gotta go: FireWire 400 -> FireWire 800 -> Thunderbolt 2 -> Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C). Madness.
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- bzzzt 7y ago
  Seems like Apple has 'deprecated' the Firewire stack in macOS. Catalina works, but don't count on it being available much longer. Btw, the FW->Thunderbolt conversion adds a noticeable amount of latency to my audio interface :(
  - rtkwe 7y ago
    What's still out there to use FireWire on?
  - rasz 7y ago
    At least it doesnt outright drop packets like the USB audio on modern macs.
fanf2 7y ago
DisplayPort and HDMI have very different protocols: HDMI (like DVI) has three separate physical channels, one for each colour, whereas DisplayPort sends whole pixels down a single logical channel. DisplayPort outputs can switch to HDMI mode to support passive DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapters, but HDMI outputs cannot support DisplayPort screens.
floatboth 7y ago
Modern GPUs usually have most of their ports as full-size DisplayPort..