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

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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?:

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

<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>

> 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 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.

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JR

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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
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            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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