USB 3.0 to VGA

[palmwangja]

No, not usb-c.

What do you all think about this item?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Attr...ternal-Cable-Adapter-for-Win/32297000790.html

The benefit of this particular item is the price. What if we can chain this item with our usual usb-c to USB apdapter. what do you think!?

 

[maflynn]

You'll need two mechanical connections, which will result in signal loss. I think your better option is to get the dongle from apple.

 

[Significant1]

Not good.
- It does not have display-signal pins from USB-C
- Therefore It does not use Macbooks built-in GPU and performance will be much worse
- Only has 8MB vram, so definitely no 3-D acceleration.
- It requires drivers and Mac's are not supported

 

[maflynn]

- It requires drivers and Mac's are not supported

I was wondering if it needed that, I failed to see any mention on the link provided but I didn't think you could get a video signal out of generic USB port without special drives.

 

[Significant1]

I was wondering if it needed that, I failed to see any mention on the link provided but I didn't think you could get a video signal out of generic USB port without special drives.

Package content includes a "1 x CD Driver" and specifikations list "Operation System Support: Windows Os:win 7, win 8, xp".

But yes, generic USB is a not a display standard. So unless something becomes so common, that the OS starts including driver for it out of the box, like e.g. usb-keys, a driver will be needed to communicate with the hardware on the other side.