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17" Cinema Display LCD ADC
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... and you don't even have to have the right video card if you are prepared to make a VGA adapter.
I found myself with a G3 PowerMac with VGA, plus a 17" Studio ADC. I decided to build an adapter to go inside the PowerMac.
Here's my blog on the project
Rick
I found myself with a G3 PowerMac with VGA, plus a 17" Studio ADC. I decided to build an adapter to go inside the PowerMac.
Here's my blog on the project
Rick
Nice, did you get the right color?
I've lucked into one for the G-4/QS'02, but I don't use it . I need to take off the coating as it's damaged and the LCD is dim. I've been thinking about sticking the non-pivot HP17 in there.
I've lucked into one for the G-4/QS'02, but I don't use it . I need to take off the coating as it's damaged and the LCD is dim. I've been thinking about sticking the non-pivot HP17 in there.
As far as I know, the ADC Studio displays only came in one color: graphite, with white-ish and chrome accents over lay-ed on a mostly clear easel like enclosure.
I think I got the description right??
Anyway, you may have been thinking of the older Studio displays which came in blueberry/teal AND graphite (there was also an ADB/DA-15 version which is compatible (without adapters) with the beige G3).
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The only acrylic Studio/Cinema displays that are DVI are the original 22" Cinema Display from 1999. All the rest of the acrylics were ADC. There was a DVI, graphite-colored, 15" plastic Studio Display similar to the preceding 15" ADB and VGA displays. All matte, Aluminum models are DVI until the aluminum and glass mini displayport displays.
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Correction to my earlier post (too late to edit).
Of course my adapter is DVI+USB+Power to ADC, not VGA.
One hazard with the Studio Displays, as they age, is that the control chips inside the display unit can start to dement. Often the extended USB ports and the remote power switch fail, and also the ability to control brightness etc via the ADC data path. All these functions use a single data channel on ADC, so perhaps it was a bit of over-design. You can have a good quality visual display but reduced control over it, and without the ability to daisy-chain the keyboard/mouse through it. This is a pity , since the design intention was to deliver a clean desktop with only a single ADC cable to the tower under the desk.
If you've got one with all those functions working for $5, you've really cracked the jackpot.
Rick
Of course my adapter is DVI+USB+Power to ADC, not VGA.
One hazard with the Studio Displays, as they age, is that the control chips inside the display unit can start to dement. Often the extended USB ports and the remote power switch fail, and also the ability to control brightness etc via the ADC data path. All these functions use a single data channel on ADC, so perhaps it was a bit of over-design. You can have a good quality visual display but reduced control over it, and without the ability to daisy-chain the keyboard/mouse through it. This is a pity , since the design intention was to deliver a clean desktop with only a single ADC cable to the tower under the desk.
If you've got one with all those functions working for $5, you've really cracked the jackpot.
Rick
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