Mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort Cable

A couple of weeks ago I bought a very nice new monitor for my Mac Pro which has displayport connection on the back along with DVI.

In the Mac world we have become used to the mini-displayport. We haven’t really thought too much about the fact that this is a smaller version of a pre-existing connector called the displayport. Odd, given that the name “mini-displayport” is a bit of a clue to the existence of something bigger.

I was quite interested to connect my new monitor to my Mac Pro with a displayport <-> mini-displayport cable. So I phoned up an Apple retailer quite close to where I live and asked them if they had one. In fact they’d never heard of it. I phoned another retailer in Brighton, they had never heard of it either.

I tried Maplin’s website but I could see no sign of it there. I did some searching of the Internet and could not find it in the UK. The only place I could find it was in a US store called Circuit Assembly. So, I bought it from there and after only a few days I had the cable. Mine is two metres and white. Pictures below:

Curled up like a snake.

Displayport connector is a fair bit bigger than Apple’s mini-displayport. Also displayport has a button which releases a pair of locking teeth on the top of the connector.

The teeth of the displayport.

Mini-displayport plug is, well, mini.

The teeth of the mini-displayport