Mini Displayport: The Missing Adaptor

By choosing Displayport as the new default video port for its notebook and Cinema display models, Apple decided to stick with the standard format which will replace DVI for a long time. However, for some reasons including gaining space in the new MacBook models, Apple developed a, so far proprietary, specific connector: the mini Displayport. As a consequence, Apple offers 3 different adaptors in option: mini Displayport -> DVI, mini Displayport -> double DVI and mini Displayport ->VGA.
But the main adaptor is still missing, a mini Displayport -> Displayport (standard format). In other words without such adaptor you simply can not use any other Displayport-enable LCD display than the new 24" Apple Cinema display. So, no chance to use the 30" Dell or Samsung displays, and all future models which should be released for Christmas time. Let's hope that Apple will quickly correct this mistake, or ask the VESA consortium to certify the mini Displayport as a new standard in order to get any other manufacturers to offer the missing adaptor. Otherwise, users and analysts will quickly conclude that, as in the past, Apple decided to create a proprietary port based on a standard format in order to lock Mac users to a limited number of display models all featuring an Apple logo...