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Flame Artist by day. Proud Dad by, uhm, the rest of the time. Lover of everything Apple. Hater of everything Microsoft. Except for the Xbox 360 of course.

Mar 12, 2009

Mac Pro and the Cinema Display

We bought a Mac Pro at work the other day and wanted a nice LED display to go with it. We naturally went for the Apple 24″ LED Cinema Display and found out that our Mac Pro came with a DVI-based graphics card. Obviously, it wouldn’t connect to the DisplayPort and there’s no adapter to make it work. Apple support told us that we had one option only: wait for the new Mac Pro’s to ship and buy one. But wait, there is another option! And it works!

Dave Bees, our CTO, found out that Apple sells the GeForce GT 120 graphics card which has a DisplayPort interface. Couldn’t this work with the display we bought? It does. It works perfectly. And there you go. Whichever Mac Pro you do have, buy this card if you want the latest (and quite stunning) display.

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Hi. I'm Hani and this is my blog. I also have some photos on Flickr, bookmarks on Delicious, tweets on Twitter and generalities on Facebook as well. Most of the time I can be found at Prime Focus in London, crafting commericals using Flame.

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