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Another mystery connector - tablet video output Can you help identify?

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 08:32 PM

This one's probably easy but I'm drawing a bit of a blank. (Graduations below are mm for scale). The manual suggests it's a mini-VGA connector, but the pictures I've found online of those don't tally. It's not mini-DP or mini-DVI either.

Any advance on those?

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 08:41 PM

laptop? computer? what is the unit?


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Posted 09 August 2012 - 08:42 PM

What tablet is it? Lots of manufacturers use proprietary connectors and only their own adapter cable will work.
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 08:51 PM

It's a Viewsonic VPAD10 tablet. I was beginning to wonder if it might be proprietary to them...

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 09:18 PM

According to its spec, it is mini VGA. Oh joy another adaptor :( WIKI

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 09:36 PM

It doesn't look like it's mini VGA - that has fourteen contacts, offset, whereas this has only 12, lined up equally on each side of the central tongue.

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 10:41 PM

it looks the new connector Apple are usuing onn their screens now, cant remember the name of it off hand

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 10:43 PM

View PostTezzachs, on 09 August 2012 - 10:41 PM, said:

it looks the new connector Apple are usuing onn their screens now, cant remember the name of it off hand


Apple havent made any new connectors for display since they released the mini display port.
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Posted 09 August 2012 - 11:18 PM

Looks like this might be what I'm after. If I was in America...

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 11:31 PM

http://en.wikipedia....bolt_(interface)

Possibly???

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Posted 09 August 2012 - 11:41 PM

Very similar looking but alas not.
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 07:37 AM

Definitely not thunderbolt - it's almost square. Is it Mini HDMI? http://www.dslrphoto...ameras,759.html

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 07:43 AM

It's definitely not Apple Mini DisplayPort or Thunderbolt, nor is it an Apple miniVGA. However, it is a miniVGA connector. It's just that Apple, HP and ASUS have all made different connectors with the same name (!).ViewSonic sell the adaptor on their online shop: http://shop.viewsonic.com/tablets/tablet-accessories/cb-00009947.html ETA: Ah, I see you already posted that link further up thread. Is there anything stopping you from purchasing from an American store?

ETA2: Looks like they sell it here: http://www.plccenter...ONIC/CB00009947

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 10:06 AM

View Postgrizzly, on 10 August 2012 - 07:43 AM, said:

Is there anything stopping you from purchasing from an American store?

Yes - they only deliver to the US or Canada... Thanks for the UK store link; I think that'll be the way to go.

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Posted 10 August 2012 - 10:17 AM

View PostShez, on 10 August 2012 - 10:06 AM, said:

Yes - they only deliver to the US or Canada...


Ah, that may well be something of an obstacle Posted Image

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