On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 6:04 PM, John Niven <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Yeah, but realistically, are you going to spend ~$100 on a dongle, that
> just adds wires to your system?
>
> Frankly you pick up a used ADC mac video card for a lot less (most people
> will be trying to get rid of them), or any old ex pc lcd screen with a dvi
> socket.
>
>
> I got (for free) a 22" Apple Cinema Display with ADC that had the annoying
habit of locking up the USB on whatever Mac it was hooked up to. So I bought
a $40 ADC/DVI KVM on eBay, connected the adapter via DVI and left the USB
unplugged. It doesn't lock up any more, and I got an (almost) free monitor.
You don't have to pay retail when you have access to LEM Swap, eBay and
craigslist.

Eric

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