Reviews for Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adaptor

I have a Vizio and it works just fine. It goes up to the full 1920x1080 resolution. It has a tight fit so you know it wont come unplugged but sometimes its a little to hard to unplug. Overall, great buy.

I am not an owner of this product, however I am writing to share some experience I've had with connecting HDTV's to macbooks. In my experience the resolutions detected by the macbook for some HDTV's were incorrect, to make it work I've had to enable mirror mode.

After setting mirror mode up, I then choose a resolution that I know the tv should support(to get it to show up on the list of available resolutions for the HDTV once I turned off mirror mode)

Hope this helps at least someone.

My friend had thought that their new HDTV would not connect to their macbook, but are much happier after I fiddled with it and got it to work. Once I made the proper resolution show up as an available option, future re-connections have not needed to go through the entire process of setting up mirror mode etc....

my 2cents.

I've used this adapter countless times for mirroring to my TV and presentations on a wide variety of projectors. There's never been a problem with connecting and after two years, there's still no wear on the cable despite its constant use and travel.

mac mini - A1347
okay, just to advise some people I went completely agains the reviews because I did not wanted to buy a new monitor. samsung tv monitor LE19R86BDX 720p.
Also went thru apple support over the phone, they advised me to try pressing shift on the keyboard on boot, also unplug from mains and press power button for 10seconds, which did not help with hdmi cable.
1) hdmi did not work (mode not recognised)
2) hdmi to vga adapter did not work (mode not recognised)
3) mini displayport to vga (worked flawlessly with 1440x900)

hope helps people with samsung tv/monitor

The metal female threads are set too deep within the plastic piece to receive the male bolt of most VGA connectors. It's frustrating because, without being threaded together, the adapter often falls off the connector in mid-presentation. I think Apple put aesthetics over function on this one. LIke all Apple products, it looks great, but making the female receiver flush and uniform with a thick, white plastic facing renders it useless when it comes to threading. Apple is sometimes guilty of design arrogance and I think this is one example of their purist design philosophy negatively effecting usability.
End of rant.

Issues with refresh rates and external screen divided in 2! Apple please correct this.

if you connect to a TV samsung it works only if you turn on first the tv and then the MAC.

But going deeper it seem a driver problem.
On vista and 7 installaed on boot camp it works everytime!!!!!!!!

Apple, please check the external VGA to a samsung monitor

I have a late-2010 13" MB Air and use this adapter with various monitors. It appears that the VGA timings or signal strength on the laptop are marginal at higher resolutions (1600x1200 and above). The effect is that you periodically get zig-zag bursts across the entire screen. This is the analog VGA signal slipping between scanlines.

The reason I'm mentioning this on the adapter page is that the build quality of the adapter appears to contribute to this. Perhaps there isn't proper shielding. In any case, I have tried three of these adapters and some are worse than others.

Hopefully this issue can be fixed in the MB Air so that VGA is more usable at higher resolutions.

Variables I have eliminated by trying different options: monitors, VGA cables, computer (2009 Mac Mini has no problem with same monitor and cable), USB or no USB attached, wireless networking disabled, and locations (home and office). Things that definitely fix it: using a DVI adapter or resolutions under 1600x1200 with VGA.

So, if you have a single monitor, get the DVI adapter instead. If you're doing presentations, you have to use VGA but switch to a lower resolution.

It works fine, but is overpriced and frankly scary. I enjoy the ease of a small and simple connector. It is easier than the DVI ports of old from Apple, but it borders on extremely breakable. It has the same problem as old iBook power connectors. It just seems like if I move my computer too much, it will break off in the port. I'd much prefer some sort of magnetic connector. Get on it Apple.