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Yes, you can. The display port is bi-directional. In a sort of quirky way. Apple has addressed one of the longest lingering questions of the iMac line (and basi
by yardie 17y ago
Yes, you can. The display port is bi-directional. In a sort of quirky way. Apple has addressed one of the longest lingering questions of the iMac line (and basically all AIO lines). People upgrade the PC but could reuse the display. With an AIO everything had to go.
- elblanco 17y agoThis is definitely a cool feature. edit okay, go ahead and downvote, apparently bidirectional connection ports in lieu of mono-directional ones are not a cool feature to somebody.
- maukdaddy 17y agoThe one problem, at least environmentally, is that you can't use the display without also having the entire "computer" part running. This means you're consuming XX extra watts the entire time.
- harpastum 17y agoI'm not sure of this, but I assume the default behavior would be putting the imac itself to sleep when it was connected to an external video source. This would use a bit more power than a simple display, but not much.