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From: Adrian on 18 Mar 2010 07:12
A customer of mine has a 17" MacBookPro (c.8mo).

Looking at Apple's website, they're going to need the MiniDisplayPort to
VGA adapter in order to actually use this for presentations - but the
comments on that page are Somewhat Underwhelming as to the reliability of
the adapter at doing it's basic job.

What's the collected experience around here? Worthwhile or white elephant?

It's this thing I'm looking at...
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MB572Z/A
From: Jon B on 18 Mar 2010 08:05
Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> A customer of mine has a 17" MacBookPro (c.8mo).
>
> Looking at Apple's website, they're going to need the MiniDisplayPort to
> VGA adapter in order to actually use this for presentations - but the
> comments on that page are Somewhat Underwhelming as to the reliability of
> the adapter at doing it's basic job.
>
> What's the collected experience around here? Worthwhile or white elephant?
>
> It's this thing I'm looking at...
> http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MB572Z/A

Had no problems with any projectors. Think the comments are from people
using the adapter with some odball sized TVs that the graphic cards
probably not happy with over VGA.
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From: Ben Shimmin on 18 Mar 2010 08:07
Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com>:
> A customer of mine has a 17" MacBookPro (c.8mo).
>
> Looking at Apple's website, they're going to need the MiniDisplayPort to
> VGA adapter in order to actually use this for presentations - but the
> comments on that page are Somewhat Underwhelming as to the reliability of
> the adapter at doing it's basic job.
>
> What's the collected experience around here? Worthwhile or white elephant?
>
> It's this thing I'm looking at...
> http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MB572Z/A

I've got one (and a Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter too, and an HDMI
to DVI cable... sigh) and it has never failed to work for me; I've had it
hooked up to a Dell monitor for hours and hours without problems, and it
has worked fine with at least two different (Dell again, I think)
projectors.

So I'm going with `they work fine'.

b.

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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 18 Mar 2010 08:08
On 18 Mar 2010 11:12:45 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>A customer of mine has a 17" MacBookPro (c.8mo).
>
>Looking at Apple's website, they're going to need the MiniDisplayPort to
>VGA adapter in order to actually use this for presentations - but the
>comments on that page are Somewhat Underwhelming as to the reliability of
>the adapter at doing it's basic job.
>
>What's the collected experience around here? Worthwhile or white elephant?
>
>It's this thing I'm looking at...
>http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MB572Z/A

Mine has worked fine with the two projecters and three screens I've
plugged it into.

Cheers - Jaimie
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