Direct from Steve: Older notebooks will work with LED Cinema Display

The new LED Cinema Display is a great product, integrating an external display with a camera, microphone, and speakers. The one huge flaw with it is that it uses Apple’s Mini Display Port connector, something no computer except the new MacBook family has. What about all of us with “old” (read: really recent) MacBooks and MacBook Pros that lust after this device?

I sent off an e-mail to Steve Jobs asking this very thing. My e-mail and Apple’s response after the break.