what is it that apple, seem to change the mini external display connectors on their computers all the damn time, more often than their damn shirts.

par example, here is a list of the different adapters they sell on the apple site that relate to the dvi standard.

this means your laptop could have one of these :

full size DV connector if your lucky g4 powerbooks and allot of early intel macbook pro laptops.
or possibly pointlessly confusing tiny size dvi standards like the following :

mini dvi
micro dvi
mini display port

and none of the above connectors will come with your machine as standard, and you are only likely to have full size dvi cables kicking around spare in your office, so basically apple is charging you a £20.00 tax to use that port after purchase, this kind of skinflintishness, when they are charging such a premium of say at least £400.00 over the cost of an equal spec pc laptop, is precisely the reason why a company like apple sits ontop a billion dollar cashpile/warchest. its at the loss of your hair and the increase of stress the user has in resolving such issues.

why they couldn’t have stuck with the first mini type of these connector types we will never know.