What is an Acer Converter Port?

Question

What is this port "Acer Converter Port"? Is it basically the same as miniDP? Can I connect a monitor like Dell U2713H on this one?

From Frequently Asked Questions on the Aspire R7 series:

9. Can I connect a DisplayPort monitor to the Acer Converter Port?

The Acer Converter Port uses the same physical port as a Mini DisplayPort, but is designed to connect to an Acer proprietary cable. If you connect a DisplayPort monitor, Acer cannot guarantee the functionality of the monitor.

No damage should occur to either monitor or notebook by connecting a Mini DisplayPort cable.

Can someone confirm this will work for sure?

Solution 1

Seems to essentially be a Lightning port imitator:

From your link in the comments:

"You also have another port at the back, the Acer Converter port. It looks a lot like a Lightning port with its specifications and you can comfortably attach displays, hard drives or routers"

It sounds like a port with enough bandwidth to carry large amounts of data making it suitable for even displays.

It also sounds like it is something Acer has not released to market: http://community.acer.com/t5/Notebooks-Netbooks/Who-knows-where-to-buy-Acer-Aspire-R7-port-converter/td-p/91981

The back-side of the laptop does have an HDMI Port so your monitor should be able to hook up to it.

Solution 2

You use that port to connect an Acer Converter Cable (Mini CP to VGA/LAN/USB). Mini cp is the name of that port, mini converter port. There is also a mini cp to vga. There will probably be other mini cp converters in the future, in order to get rid of the bigger ports.

Comments

[Ramhound]

Can you provide a product page that lists "Acer Converter Port" on it?

[ShadowHero]

notebookcheck.net/… I am looking at this laptop

[Ramhound]

If Acer cannot guarantee it will work then how can you expect us to guarantee it will work. If you want a gurantee it will work get a different laptop with actual Mini-Displayport standard support.

[ShadowHero]

Someone with a laptop having this port and a monitor with this resolution can try it.

[Ramhound]

I am pretty sure that would bring the scope of this question outside of the bounds of this site. Besides Acer's own documentation currently answers this question.

[Ramhound]

He will want to stick with Acer branded cables. A standard mini-DisplayPort cable might no work.

[Ramhound]

Actually its not a standard Mini-Displayport. Standard MDP cables MIGHT NOT work with this particular port. Acer of course sells converter cables that would

[ShadowHero]

Can you confirm if this will or will not work with a miniDP monitor?

[Ramhound]

@ShadowHero - Acer's own documentation says it MIGHT work depending on the monitor used.

[MonkeyZeus]

@Ramhound Hah! Now I question the articles' accuracy as well. Never-the-less, and HDMI port should work for OPs' monitor right? Granted they have an HDMI cable of the correct revision. Looks like 1.4 supports 4K hdmi.org/manufacturer/hdmi_1_4/4K.aspx