Display Assembly Compatibility (Swap Over) 2012 > 2010 Possible?

I have found that the BookYard simply list their parts according to the year of the model they came from and not necessarily by compatibility. I have edited the question adding more info.

@livfe - the LVDS cable is a straight through across the board so that won’t matter here. Apple altered the pin assignments a few times over the years on the cable. You would need to review the assignments from the schematics between the models.

@danj It gets confusing when sellers of parts list the LVDS cables as all being compatible, which makes no sense if the pins are in different assignments.... LCD's surprisingly have remained the same.on the 11" models from 2010 to 2015..... replacements for a 2010 through to 2015 the last year of production.... only a test will provide a positive result or a disaster lol

@livfe - The difference is within the logic board and the display the cable spans, not within the cable itself self.

While not the best example I can think of right now, think how a power cord can be used within a 120 Volt service as well as a 220 Volt service. But the device will either not work (220 based) if plugged into a 120 service or how a 120 device will go up in smoke if plugged into a 220 service.

The cord is not the issue it’s what it spans. Likewise the LVDS cable is the same just within the LVDS signaling. In fact! The same type of connection is used within both iDP and eDP signaling in laptops.

Here we can think of it like the different data rates of Ethernet (IEEE/ISO 802.3 spec) UTP cables, only the quality of the cable becomes important not its pinouts as long as it fulfills the TIA/EIA 568 standard as required for the given data rate.

@danj Theoretically it will work no? Would you try it, yes or no?