On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Macs R We wrote:
> It requires a special mini display port cable which Apple sells. Try here:
On Feb 26, 2010, at 2:02 PM, steve harley wrote:
> but i don't see anything which convinces me it's really a special cable --
> just male-male
Having just hooked up 2 of the 27" iMacs (a Core i5 and a Core 2 Duo
model) using a male-to-male MiniDisplayPort cable from Monoprice (so nothing
special about it at all) I can confirm that this works with "normal" cables.
However, since this is a DisplayPort only feature, I doubt you could use an
adapters (other than DisplayPort to miniDisplayPort) to make this work, which
may be the source of the "special" bit in the description.
In some cases (like the one I just tested) you do have to hit
Command-F2 to get one of the computers to switch into "display" mode, and the
OS on the "display" must be running for this to work.
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