I thought about doing this, but, WOW!, are there ever a lot of bad reviews for this product posted at the online Apple Store.

Coincidentally, Any Dundee Mac users who happen to have both a DVI Mac and an ancient ADC display but no adaptor (if such a person exists), might want to head down to the Claverhouse charity shop, where they have been trying to flog a boxed Dr Bott DVIator for months, it’s now going for a mere tenner (originally an optimistic £40), which is way better than being fleeced by Apple.

I thought about doing this, but, WOW!, are there ever a lot of bad reviews for this product posted at the online Apple Store.

The complaints seem to be mostly:

The price
The power switch on the screen no longer powers the cpu up and down.
USB is sometimes flaky.

Others seem to be one offs that may not apply to anyone else.

What’s wrong with purchasing a $15 adapter (which is about an inch long piece of plastic, NOT something the size of the Mac mini itself)? It works well.

Anyone can buy this adapter. Mail order required since Apple nor anybody else around here carry this needed adapter).

http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fw_adapter.html

@DB - nothing at all wrong with the $15 solution except that the adapter is for Firewire.

If your problem is, in fact, ADC and DVI then you need an ADC-and-DVI solution. Apple’s worked OK for me.

Sigh..what I need is a ADC ->DVI adapter to use a DVI monitor on the stupid adc port on my G5

My work has several of these adaptors, and they work well with one caveat.

After a few years (where few is anything from 2 to 5+) they fail, and when they do your Mac will get almost through the boot-up process and then mysteriously do a soft power-down.  This happens if the monitor cable is connected to the computer, regardless of whether USB is plugged in.  At this point, the only way I know to fix it is to replace the adaptor.

The adaptor works with Windows boxes (with USB and DVI) and Macs, and I’ve personally never had any issues except when they fail as described above.  However, my workmates report that the front buttons don’t work any more with their Mac laptops - I don’t know if this is related to different drivers for Intel or different drivers on 10.5 (I was using 10.4 with a G4 laptop and it all worked as expected).

Curious thought: has anyone used a “failed” adaptor through a DisplayPort to DVI adaptor?  Does the system still self-power-off with this extra level of indirection?

I looked at Dr. Bott’s site and saw a DVI to ADC connector designed for Scavenger’s application. However, it does not supply power so how can it be used to drive a ADC monitor with a DVI computer?

In answer to John M., yes I know. My question was in reference to the main story which implies that Dr. Bott has a solution to the problem of mating a new mac to an ADC monitor. On Dr. Bott’s site, I saw only unpowered ADC to DVI adaptor.

Gefen sold the DVIator also that allowed you to use a ADC monitor on a DVI port, also with a power brick. They now have this box:

http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=1203