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Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors?

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In comp.sys.mac.system, on 17 Feb 2017 01:02:59 GMT, Jolly Roger
<jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

>On 2017-02-17, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>> Hi, it's me again!
>>
>> In case you don't remember, I needed your help to retrieve a bunch of
>> files and email from my late buddy's mac.  I got that done last summer,
>> I think it was, kept a copy or two, and gave a copy to the boss of his
>> non-profit, who I don't  think really knows what to do with it. But
>> thanks again for the help. 
>>
>>
>> Now I have a new question.   I'm going out of town and staying somewhere
>> for almost 3 month, and the landlady has a mac monitor I can use with my
>> small laptop PC.   It would be great to have a real monitor.  
>>
>> All I know is that it is a wide monitor only,  separate from the
>> computer, an Apple brand, l, not a CRT, and that the "bracket" that
>> rests on the table and holds up the screen is simple, plain, 6 or 8
>> inches wide, goes back a few inches and then bends sharply upwards and
>> forward at a 70 or 80 acute degree angle
>
>A picture (or more solid details) would surely help. Does it look like
>one of these?:

The only picture I have is not very good, but maybe I can post it. 

><http://www.everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/apple_cinema_display_23.html>

Thanks a lot for these. 

This one has a white border, but the border above the screen is the same
height as the border below the screen.  In hers the border below the
screen is almost 3 times as "tall" as the one above the screen.   And in
the middle of it is a dark-colored apply logo. 
>
><http://www.everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/apple-led-cinema-display-27-inch-specs.html>
>
><http://www.everymac.com/monitors/apple/thunderbolt/specs/apple-thunderbolt-display-27-inch-specs.html>

These two have black borders.  I doubt if they also come in white, since
it's just the border. 

Other than the things I mention they all look quite like the one in
question, so you were on the right track. . 

>> I presume it has a Displayport input, but what are the odds it will have
>> a VGA input also???*** 
>
>If it truly is a fairly modern Apple wide screen display it will be all
>digital rather than analog, which means it will use DVI, DisplayPort, or
>Thunderbolt (depending on the model) rather than analog VGA.
>
>> On the early assumption it only had Displayport, I  went looking for a
>> vga to displayport adapter  and google brought up Staples, Gearbest, and
>> Amazon, and provided search pages for each of them, and even though I
>> was searching for    
>>   
>>                         vga to displayport adapter       
>>
>> and that was the heading of every search page, every hit was for the
>> opposite, displayport to vga. 
>>
>> Am I looking for something that doesn't exist? 
>
>I haven't ever had a need to connect a DVI, DisplayPort, or Thunderbolt
>display to a VGA port; so I'll let someone with actual experience doing
>it answer this portion.
>
>> Although this might be from a newer series, this looks quite a bit like
>> the monitor
>> http://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-se370-series-s24e370dl-23-6-led-fhd-freesync-monitor-high-glossy-white-with-blue-frame/5712657.p
>> and if you  click on the 4th picture, it  has inputs for displayport,
>> hdmi, and VGA!
>>
>> But this is Samsung and not Apple.   Is VGA "standard"?   Or standard
>> for Samsung, but rare on Apple? .   Or non-existent on Apple? 
>
>Apple monitors aren't re-branded Samsung displays. And Apple is well
>known to ditch legacy ports without abandon in favor of newer and better
>stuff. tl;dr: No modern Apple display comes with a legacy VGA port since
>they are all digital rather than analog.

This is probably the clincher.   Well I can't have everything.  

>> This series is still for sale, but there was a similar Apple model
>> that's only for sale used now,   None of the pictures show the back.
>> Would VGA have been standard on that model too?  Or at least on some of
>> them? 
>
>The EveryMac web site (links above) will tell you what type of connector
>each Apple display has.

I'm looking at that now. 

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Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-16 19:04 -0500
  Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-02-16 19:25 -0500
    Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-17 02:23 -0500
    Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-17 08:54 -0500
  Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-16 19:32 -0500
  Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-17 01:02 +0000
    Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-17 02:28 -0500
      Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-17 17:21 +0000
        Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-17 23:56 -0500
          Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-18 05:51 +0000
            Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-18 23:01 +1300
            Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-18 06:54 -0500
              Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-18 16:13 +0000
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  Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-02-16 18:11 -0700
    Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-17 02:28 -0500
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