I'm looking for the best solution to connect my Macbook Retina to VGA projectors at work. I see two adapters on the Apple store both with bad reviews. Has anyone had good sucess with any adapters that go from HDMI to VGA?
Thanks
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
I tried hard. Four different manufacturers, including Belkin, none of HDMI to VGA works with rMBP. However, all of them work with other sources, like Dell notebook.
HDMI directly from rMBP to HDMI intput works fine.
Thanks. I ended up doing thunderbolt to vga adapter.
I talked to Apple support. They admitted the problem. rMBP HDMI output will work only directly to HDMI input. Any adaptor in between wont work. There is an Apple support Case ID: 448853799 if you need a reference.
OK - just confirmed that with a
Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adaptor
attached to the Thunderbolt port and a VGA sending out the other side to a projector, you're good to go.
Below are the two adaptors I use that work fine.
I use the VGA at work for the connection to conference room projectors
I use the DVI connection to a $100 flat screen second second monitor I have
I'm happy with both. The only issue is, since I plug/unplug the thunderbolt cable several times a day, the connection moves and the monitor sometimes looses the signal for a second. Thunderbolt is just not a tight connection like DVI and VGA and doesn't hold it in place strong enough. Nice that its small but not a good connector over all...the number one requirement of a connection is that it is tight and secure...thunderbolt fails this.
VGA
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009K916ZK/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&p sc=1
DVI
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Q0ZCNC/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&p sc=1
I had a similar problem but wanted to use the HDMI port instead of the thunderbolt port.
I tested this on a MacBook Pro Retina (late 2013) and on a MacMini (2012).
As stated above, on both machines my HDMI -> VGA dongle did not work.
To solve this, I placed a HDMI repeater between the Mac and the dongle.
Surprisingly this does work.
Repeater: HQ AVREPEAT-31
HDMI->VGA: Delock HDMI-A male > VGA female
Macbook Retina HDMI to VGA
