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by ttyyzz 842 days ago
The connector (resp Port) was too chunky for laptops and you didnt get sound over dvi, but other than that it worked just Fine each and every time. Never had issues upgrading stuff from VGA to DVI in an industrial Environment back then.
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Apple had a full-size DVI connector on their PowerBook G4 series of laptops.
All the G4 PowerBooks I remember used mini-DVI?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-DVI

Which is cool, but not quite as cool as micro-DVI, which they used for exactly one MacBook Air generation before mini-DisplayPort arrived on the scene

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-DVI

Edit: you are right though. I just pulled up pictures on early G4 variants, and there is indeed full-size DVI. I completely forgot that.

I actually like not having sound in the same cable, it has generally made life more complicated. But my use case could be different from others.

Even DVI had HDCP though, so it too was flawed :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...