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Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Have they recalled this yet?

Written by RH from Apple Valley

Mar 28, 2009

Flickers the monitor to the point of uselessness.
Worked great for 5 minutes. Since then it is worthless.
Almost as if something burned out inside once it was plugged in to a 30" monitor. Seriously, Apple, overheating batteries, cracking logicboards, and now this!

15 of 18 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Works after attention so far...

Written by FH from Frederiksberg C

Mar 27, 2009

I bought this Dual-Link DVI Adapter for my Triplehead2go.. Max resolution before was 2400x600px.. Now i can get op to 3840x1200px!!
But I would have prefered a DL-DVI plug at the side, like the previous macbook pro.. And savede 99$ and all these adapters.

5 of 9 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Flickering problems!

Written by RT from Belmar

Mar 26, 2009

I bought this adapter so I could plug my new unibody, 17-inch MacBook Pro to my 30-inch Cinema Display. The problem is that my monitor flickers unpredictably during use. I've had this Cinema Display for over a year, and it was hooked up to two other MacBook Pros. This problem only occurred after this adapter was used to hook up to my computer.

23 of 24 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Apple owes us a refund! (Avoid this product)

Written by JU from Berkeley

Mar 26, 2009

There are lots of complaints in lots of places about this product, and they are all justified -- you won't get more than a few minutes at a time flicker-free if if you buy this product. Avoid it until Apple provides a real fix.

17 of 17 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Seems to work well with the Mac Book Air and Apple 30 In display

Written by SS from Los Alamos

Mar 23, 2009

I have been using this for the last several weeks and have not had any difficulty with the quality or the connection using a new Mac Book Air. I do not experience any flickering with extended use.

The only gripe that I have is that each time I connect it up again it asks me to verify my keyboard (Microsoft Natural 4000).

I use this side by side with my Mac Pro desktop and I honestly can not tell any difference in color quality or performance.

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Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Flicker

Written by JT from Vadnais Heights

Mar 22, 2009

I purchased the 2.8GHz MacBook Pro. I have a 30" Cinema Display at the office and the new 24" LED Cinema Display at home. I was disappointed that I had to order a $99 cable for the 30" display. Initially worked fine but develops an annoying flicker in the background. Usually not seen in an active window. This is an annoyance and significant disappointment considering the upfront costs.

13 of 13 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Works great for me!

Written by TJ from Orlando

Mar 18, 2009

I have the Apple 30" HD Display hooked up to my unibody Macbook Pro. It works perfectly. The only issues I ever have is once ever few hours the screen will flicker, but it lasts a millisecond so it's easy to ignore! This product has been fantastic!

9 of 26 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Ruined My Experience

Written by JF from Piscataway

Mar 17, 2009

I was looking for a new computer to drive my 30 inch Dell Monitor, and I decided to make the switch from PC to Apple -- but after dealing with this cable, I'm going back to PC.

After hooking up this adapter I experienced sporadic issues with screen flickering, blurriness, and white lines. I've tried several work-a-rounds to eliminate the problems but none of them work.

Don't buy a new Macbook if you want to run it on a monitor that requires dual link DVI, you will be disappointed.

28 of 34 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Stability issues

Written by WW from Seattle

Mar 16, 2009

I've been having some of the same issues with this adapter. It works (mostly) fine with my Dell 2009W, but it has weird issues and cuts out occasionally. Also, it doesn't have DVI-I and so my other DVI adapters don't work with it.

12 of 16 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Agreed: worst Apple product ever.

Written by CK from Tucson

Mar 14, 2009

I really hope this is a software problem with the NVidia chip and not a problem with this adapter... but the flickering is ridiculous! They say it's not compatible with non-Apple monitors and say that's the reason for many users' problems (complete nonsense...) but that doesn't explain the identical problems I have with my NEW Apple 30" that worked perfectly with my old MBP 17".

There had better be a fix soon because this is ridiculous.

14 of 15 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

worst Apple product ever

Written by UC from Dublin

Mar 11, 2009

I've been happily using my 30" Dell monitor with previous MacBook Pro (which had dual-link dvi output), when I upgraded my notebook I purchased this adapter, hoping that it will work fine too. Unfortunately, it didn't! Simply put, this adapter is very unstable. I'm always using with power adaptor is connected, with "High Performance" graphics mode. Couple days it worked fine for couple hours, but usually it goes crazy after 10-15 minutes usage; seems like having a refresh/synch problem. Some times unplugging and plugging it back solves the problem for another 10-15 minutes... This is really frustrating....

44 of 46 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

At least it doesn't catch fire

Written by KR from Powell

Mar 11, 2009

Unfortunately I ignored all the reviews and gave apple the benefit of the doubt. I get the distorted unreadable picture about 20-25 times a day and have to press option > command > eject to put the display to sleep. When I wake it up, it is fine again.

I will probably retire my new macbook and fire up the old and rusty but trusty HP desktop. It's faster anyway.

Do buy this product until Apple can recognize (let alone fix) the issue.

40 of 42 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Causes pixel snow with new Unibody MBPro and 30" Apple Cinema Display

Written by FP from New York

Mar 10, 2009

I just bought a new 2.66Ghz 17" Unibody MBPro 2 days ago and hooked it up to my 30" Apple Cinema Display with the Dual-Link DVI adapter. At first, it worked fine and I thought I got lucky, but after the first waking from sleep, I started getting the flickering pixel snow in the background. Now, after 2 days, it's gotten worse--and it's really distracting while I work.

I've tried unplugging/replugging the adapter, tried both graphics cards settings, detached all USB peripherals from the 30", but it doesn't solve the problem. I don't know if it's even worth exchanging the adapter or MBPro given how persistent these problems seem to be based on what I've read here and in various forums. I'm hoping there's a software fix in the works and it's not a hardware issue. I love Apple products and have been a customer for 15 years, but this is extremely frustrating.

42 of 44 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Works great

Written by RH from SUNNYVALE

Mar 9, 2009

I'm using the dual link DVI adapter with a 15" Macbook Pro and its working flawlessly. All I had to do was make sure that power saving was not on for graphics and was able to set up a sweet dual monitor setup. Now my mac is my secondary screen with just a little bit of tweaking in the system preferences.

Using it on a HP LP3065 monitor.

10 of 19 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

13" aluminium Macbook drives Dell 3008 WFP just fine

Written by RS from SHEFFIELD

Mar 9, 2009

This adapter drives my few months old Dell 3008 WFP without any image quality issues, from a brand new 13" aluminium Macbook.

It's a shame there's no mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable, though, because the 3008 has DisplayPort input.

5 of 10 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

ridiculous

Written by MK from Kingwood

Mar 8, 2009

I am using all Apple products... brand new 17 inch Macbook Pro and Apple 30 inch cinema display. I get random linear, static like flickers across the screen that predominately affect the darker areas. For those of you saying you don't have problems, try putting a large jet black area on your 30 inch monitor before clicking up the star rating on this defective product.

9 of 10 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Works most of the time.

Written by JR from Tucson

Mar 7, 2009

Apple 30" Cinema Display, Macbook 13" unibody 2.4Ghz, 4GB mem

I experience flickers (so far only right after the computer starts up), inserted DVD, DVD player automatically opened and full-screen, just got black screen, everything besides the mouse cursor became unresponsive. Had to power-off via holding power button.

Its just doesn't seem stable, but what choice do I have if I only have a MB and want to use my 30" display (used to have a PowerMac G5, but sold it)

Hopefully this is something Apple could address in the future with a software/driver update.

$99 to use my $1600 laptop with my $1800 display. A complete rip off. I might possibly have been able to overlook the $99 if it worked perfectly without problems, but that is certainly not the situation here.

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Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter

Mac Mini(2009) Problems w/Adapter

Written by JB from Fremont

Mar 6, 2009

Just to chime in with the rest of the crowd, I'm also experiencing flickering issues with this adapter. I have a new Mac Mini w/Nvidia graphics that powers the 30" Cinema perfectly, no graininess or distortion, except for that irritating screen flickering every 15-40 minutes. I thought the Mini had issues, I'd never suspect it was the adapter until coming to this forum. Hope Apple fixes this problem soon considering that the adapter was 1/6th the price of the Mini.

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