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Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Therapy for me to READ

Written by TA from Olathe

Feb 27, 2009

After years of debate, last week I approved purchases for our office to move to a MAC platform. Everyone has been raving about the new Mac Books....until we tried to use them in either of the conference rooms where HDTVs are located. Yeah, did not see that comming.

Just wanted to point out, although it does not solve the MAJOR MAC BOOK ISSUE, it is nice to hear that it's not just our office plagued with this issue. APPLE, fulfill your legacy and fix this....please.

19 of 35 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Can Apple Help??

Written by TO from Providence

Feb 26, 2009

Can Apple weigh in on this? I have a Samsung LCD and the VGA cable I have worked fine with my PC. Then I bought this when I got a new 13" aluminum Macbook and it doesn't work. Lots of people say it has to do with grounding pins on the VGA cable, but why does that same cable work with my PC? Why doesn't the Macbook work? Help!

29 of 33 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Worked perfectly

Written by MB from Forest Hills

Feb 26, 2009

After reading the other reviews, I thought this was going to be a disaster. I'm using it with a ViewSonic video projector.

I plugged the adapter into the Mac (15" MBP current model), plugged the projector cable into the adapter, the Mac immediately recognized the projector. I went into the utility to mirror the screens (which was not the default), it knocked the resolution on the projector down to one the projector could handle. This was all displayed in the Monitors dropdown in the toolbar. And everything worked absolutely perfectly.

Yes, it doesn't look anywhere near as good on the projector as it does on the Mac. What a surprise. And this is the Mac's problem why??

My only complaint is that $29.95 is a bit expensive, but all Apple cables are absurdly expensive.

9 of 13 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

This adapter screwed a major presentation for me today

Written by EL from Stockholm

Feb 20, 2009

Prior to january this year, I had never (10 years) had any problems with getting my Mac to recognize an external display. However, four weeks ago at a MAJOR presentation (research grant funding) my colleague's Macbook air failed to recognize the projector. Thank god we had brought my machine as a backup, and the presentation went fine. Today, the same thing happened to me at an important event. While we didn't lose money, it was _quite_ embarrassing to appear as a 10-year old who doesn't know how to connect a projector, and I had to give my presentation without slides (nobody else had Keynote '09 on a Mac). Apparently there are a number of people claiming this adapter either does not have all ground pins correctly connected, or that it has physical issues that prevents some VGA cables from sliding all the way in.

This is a major issue right now, since there are no other miniDP->VGA adapters out there. For now, I would not recommend anybody to trust a new Macbook for a critical presentation - the next critical time I will play it safe with Powerpoint, just in case...

73 of 80 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

MacBook to Dell

Written by RM from Petaluma

Feb 18, 2009

It did work for me. It kicks in at the blue screen

9 of 16 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Pathetic - re-syncs

Written by WW from Atlanta

Feb 17, 2009

I upgraded from a $700 2 year old Toshiba laptop to a $2000 macbook pro 15". After buying this $29.95 part, I found that my monitor keeps going dark re-syncing.

I also found my brand new bluetooth mighty mouse doesn't scroll up. Do I have to get an appointment at a store with a genius to simply do a return of the mouse?

18 of 29 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Smooth operation so far

Written by AK from NEW YORK

Feb 17, 2009

I've used this to connect my MacBook Air to projectors for presentations and so far the connections have been perfect. Based on the other reviews, I am now concerned that it might not work on some occasions, but no problems yet.

7 of 9 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Perfect

Written by TP from Fort Collins

Feb 16, 2009

This works perfectly as described, its small and easy to take with me places and connects to my Infocus projector easily

2 of 6 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Works perfect with Dell 15" Flat-Panel LCD (model # E152FP)

Written by AM from Ann Arbor

Feb 16, 2009

Was very skeptical when reading the reviews for this product, but I can proudly say that this works perfect for the monitor stated in the title above. If you have this monitor and thinking about purchasing it, I would highly recommend it. Little pricey, but it's worth the money. I love having two screen to work on, and with the help of the "Spaces" program (available for Leopard users), it's amazing.

6 of 9 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Freeze Frame

Written by JM from Atlanta

Feb 15, 2009

With Macbook Pro (late 08), external VGA displays are basically unusable unless you close the lid. Otherwise, Video Res will be the same as laptops, and it freezes up if it goes to sleep or if you pull adapter out. Must also plug adapter in and boot, otherwise it freezes up. If you plug it in after booting, forget it.

Very disappointing, wish Apple would fix this, otherwise the Macbook Pro is very nice...

8 of 12 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Bought for my MBP, works just fine

Written by JB from Whittier

Feb 15, 2009

Does what it says it does, and what it's supposed to do. Works fine, nothing exciting.

The plastic film that you're supposed to peel off has a nasty smell to it, but it doesn't make the dongle smell or anything; I believe it's the adhesive, but it smells bad regardless.

I can't say how I feel about DisplayPort yet, but from what it looks like it's a good thing.

3 of 5 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Great Purchase

Written by CT from La Canada

Feb 14, 2009

I bought this, and it worked completely fine with two different Dell monitors, although it did require a minimal amount in tweaking the settings for the output, which is completely fine by me.

2 of 2 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

samsung and vga

Written by AM

Feb 11, 2009

Appears lots of people are upset with the adapter not working with their samsung. I don't have the adapter but the reason for the "non-working" condition is based on the samsung vga implementation. It appears that samsung needs or wants to see all grounds connected in the vga connection coming into their monitor / tv. In vga land, there are 5 grounds (one for each color, sync signals and a shield / connector ground). IF these grounds are not connected together "in some form", then in my findings, your samsung display will not "highlight" the "pcmode" and as result, nothing will be displayable on the monitor (usually you will get "check cable" message). The reason for the "differences" that people are experiencing in results is that some vga cables are built with the grounds connected, some computers (eg. some PC's) are implemented to switch (connect) their grounds at the output port, and some different adapters (versions) have the grounds "hard-wired" together, some don't (this one?). Not sure why samsung choose their implementation, but these are my recent findings from my efforts to connect two pc and mac to a newly purchased samsung 61 HD TV. The "easiest" way around things (in my opinion) is to get a vga cable with all ground pins and sheath ground connected... if you already have a vga ("non-working") cable, then try buy a short "extension" cable with the described characteristic and use it as an intermediate cable (ie. between the samsung monitor and the "non-working" vga cable). Hope this is understandable and helps.

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Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Don't buy

Written by PB from Houston

Feb 11, 2009

It just doesn't work. Screen is waving, changing colors. Often I cannot even choose the resolution I want for my external screen. I've tried with two diffrent screens, and none of them worked good. This cable behaves like the worst Microsoft product and Apple pretends not to see it.

17 of 20 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Simply didn't work

Written by ED from Brookline

Feb 11, 2009

I bought this to hook up my new macbook to projectors. Tried to hook it up to a Dell projector and although the macbook seemed to recognize the display, the projector just kept displaying "searching for signal." Would love to find a solution.

14 of 16 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Does Its Job

Written by AY from PASADENA

Feb 11, 2009

I connected to my vizio 32 inch and to my LCD monitor.

Its doing what its supposed to do

setup was a breeze

3 of 5 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Not impressed

Written by GS from Guildford

Feb 9, 2009

Bought this to take to client meetings — Fell at first hurdle: Connected, then failed immediately.

16 of 32 people found this useful

Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter

Very dissapointed

Written by SM from Fairbanks

Feb 8, 2009

I just bought a brand new mac book with this adapter hoping that I would be able to hook it up to the 23 inch samsung syncmaster 2333HD display I got for Christmas. The computer seems to acknowledge the monitor, having the correct name on the window when I hit "detect display" but the display will only read "check signal cable" the display works with other computers and even the vga adapter on my 2005 ibook. The macbook adapter works with my old crt external but not with this new display. This seems to be something of a trend based on the other reviews and I am very dissapointed. I'm going to try and see if the dvi adapter works but still, very disappointing. This is unacceptable.

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