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captan

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I want to be prepared if I would ever need to hook my MBP to a second monitor or a projector. So what do I need?
 

DoFoT9

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Jun 11, 2007
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the cable that came with ur mbp will allow you to connect to analogue projectors (VGA) and if its a digital (DVI) you dont need any cables, just goes straight into your mbp.
 

captan

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May 11, 2005
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the cable that came with ur mbp will allow you to connect to analogue projectors (VGA) and if its a digital (DVI) you dont need any cables, just goes straight into your mbp.

That would assume the monitor or projector has an associated cable in the first place. As I said I want to be prepared. That means I'm also prepared for there not beeing cables whatsoever on location. So I still need a DVI and a VGA cable to cover both cases.

My question is what type of DVI cable I need. DVI-I or DVI-D? Dual or single linked? And how common is HDMI?
 

DoFoT9

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Jun 11, 2007
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the monitor will already have a cable associated with it.. unless no1 has scabbed it. for projectors alot of the cables are VGA, you already haev a dvi-d to vga connector so thats easy. if its a dvi-i or dvi-d cable your fine aswell. you might need to get the hdmi connector and cable tho.

it might be good to get the dvi-d connector, it is backwards compatible to dvi-i i THINK:confused:
 
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