VGA Display Adapter
Use Apple's VGA Display Adapter to connect the mini-VGA port on eMac, iMac G5, 12-inch PowerBook G4, or iBook to any VGA-equipped monitor or external projector for video-mirroring.
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Overview
Important: Compatible only with eMac, iMac G5, iMac G4 flat-panel, 12-inch PowerBook, or iBooks having a VGA port. Certain iBook models may also have an A/V port for composite video-out. Use an Apple A/V Cable for composite video-out. The VGA cable is for VGA video-out only.
Most Recent Reviews
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VGA Display Adapter
This works good for a year then fails...
Written by KC from Haslett
Jan 7, 2009
I had this for about a year with moderate to heavy use. It worked great until about 3 months ago when i gave my dissertation. Duri…Read moreng the presentation the color changed to a brown/red tint and was embarrassing.
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VGA Display Adapter
Works... until it goes uhh... colourful
Written by SK from Mississauga
Nov 30, 2008
It worked for about half an year and then it started flickering green and then back to normal. It had to be held in wierd position…Read mores to work (that was 6 months ago). For some reason, it worked OK today with only minimal colour troubles when you flex it. Still, I don't trust it anymore. What if it goes colourful during a critical presentation and refuses to work properly? Then what. I'm really disappointed in you Apple. Apple products are supposed to be designed to take some abuse. This was just sitting in a laptop bag with occasional use (maybe once a month). Come on, Apple.
Do the right thing and just give a free replacement that will last a while.(13 of 16 people found this review useful)
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VGA Display Adapter
Needs thicker cable and stronger leads
Written by JF from Ennis
Sep 26, 2008
What causes this hardware to have problems is that the lead wires carrying the color signal and the inner wrap and outer insulatin…Read moreg cable is too thin. Compare the diameter of the VGA cable from the monitor or other device you are connecting to with the adapter cable. Apple should know better than to keep insulting its knowledgeable customers and ripping off its less technically aware customers by overcharging for so many of its technically inferior products.
(20 of 27 people found this review useful)
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Most Useful Reviews
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VGA Display Adapter
...if you bought a MacBook in 2006 or later, don't buy this adapter.
Written by GH from Tampa
May 19, 2007
I've had my iBook for over 3 years. My VGA adapter came with it. Like most people, I don't have the money to go out and buy myself…Read more a brand new apple every year or so, so I'm still stuck with my sad little G4. After having it for a year, I tipped over a glass of sweet tea accidentally onto my mac and then it fell 4 feet off a dresser to the floor. After lots of upset and annoyance I realized I had done something to the connection from the computer itself to the screen, and the backlight has permanently died. What's that mean? Well... if I look REALLY hard in the right kind of light I can actually still see what's being projected onto my screen... but since there's no backlight and I don't have $800 to replace my LCD, I have been using the VGA adapter that came with my iBook for over 2 years now. That's right, my laptop is now a desktop. And it works fine. I've never had a problem with my VGA adapter, it works like a charm- and I've moved it everywhere, used it with any monitor you could imagine, LCD displays, etc.
If it didn't come with your computer, buy it.
Oh, and my teaching partner bought a MacBook last year and we tried to hook hers up to the projector but my VGA adapter actually doesn't fit into her port. Apparently in the newer versions of the laptops, Apple changed the port size. Make sure you're buying the one that is most compatible with your computer- if you bought a MacBook in 2006 or later.... don't buy this one.(583 of 938 people found this review useful)
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VGA Display Adapter
works perfectly...
Written by JL from Paris
Jun 28, 2007
...as long as you follow these simple rules:
1) shut down completely your computer _before_ connecting the adapter (sleep mode is…Read more _not_ a shutdown).
2) power up the external screen or video projector _after_ connecting the cable and _before_ booting the Mac.
3) shut everything down _before_ disconnecting the adapter.
These will avoid electric shocks on both the video card and the external screen/video projector/whatever you connect.(506 of 844 people found this review useful)
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VGA Display Adapter
Read the description folks
Written by MJ
Feb 13, 2008
I am surprised that some of the people who reviewed this product managed to figure out how to breathe properly. This is especially…Read more targeted at "AD" who seems to think it's a crime for Apple to sell different adapters for different machines. READ THE DESCRIPTION! This is NOT for your shiny new Intel-based Macs, this is for those of us who have the older iMacs and eMacs with the mini-VGA port. Guess what? Macs last a LONG TIME and there are some of us out there with 2-year-old or older machines which use adapters like this.
The name of this product is "Apple VGA Display Adapter". Notice that big fat VGA in there? It's there for a reason! If you are so blindly stupid as to buy a VGA adapter for your Mac with a DVI port, you deserve the headache resulting from it.
Now please, "AD" and all the others here who have no freaking clue what DVI even stands for: STOP giving a bad review because you are too idiotic to read properly!
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