I bought months ago this adapter http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB572Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDA4Mw#overview and tried it with 3 different projectors but still none worked, I went to settings and changed resolutions and clicked detect displays and nothing and when I go to the apple store they don't have a projector to try it on, what should I do?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Go to Apple menu -> About This Mac -> System Information, and tell us only the Machine/model identifier and NOT the serial number. It should be MacBook Pro x,y. We need the x,y values. This will tell us if you have a Thunderbolt MacBook Pro, or if you have a mini-Displayport. Not all mini-Displayport adapters work on Thunderbolt. If you have DVI or HDMI on a projector, it is better to connect to those ports than VGA or S-Video.
It says:
Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,1
And I have a thunderbolt port, does that mean I bought that adapter for nothing? Then, what adapter should I buy?
The question is what is your projector make and model number?
And while I wouldn't say for nothing, you can always give it to someone at an http://www.apple.com/usergroups/ who needs it for an older Mac.
As I said, I tried three different projectors, two epson and one 3M, none of them mine, from my college and school. The last one I tried was EPSON PowerLite 1835 XGA 3LCD
The upper leftmost port above the powerplug connector is an HDMI port. A Thunderbolt HDMI cable together with an HDMI to HDMI cable should work with it.
I finally found a cable that claims to be Thunderbolt to VGA. Mind you VGA resolutions are limited on Mac signals to 4:3 ratios such as 1024 x 768. If you don't have a widescreen projector this won't matter, but if you do, will mean you will have borders chopped off your view. If the previous two projectors don't have an HDMI port, they seriously need to get up to date. Projectors with HDMI ports have been around for at least 6 years.
jeanpaul.nv wrote:
And I have a thunderbolt port, does that mean I bought that adapter for nothing? Then, what adapter should I buy?
That is the correct adapter. Thunderbolt is backwards compatible with mini-displayport. Are you sure the projectors were turned on and your cable was connected to the right port? These days most projectors have rather sophisticated, remote controls and are not easy to figure out.
It says to be recognized at the moment I plug in the cables but it doesn't, tried different forums and everything to make it work and I still don't know what's the problem
The problem is that that projector it's on my school and not my college, the college ones only have VGA, The cable and the adapter should atleast work....
I took the MBP to the store where I bought it and it was a logic board factory failure so they changed it and now it works.
Can't connect to projector
