Once you have acquired all of the necessary cables, the entire setup process will take about a minute. Thunderbolt to HDMI video adapter with audio support

Connect the MacBook Air to a Screen with an HDMI Port Luckily there is a cheap and simple solution that will allow you to display your MacBook Air screen on any HDTV with an HDMI port. Many laptops in today’s market include an HDMI port to allow for you to connect your computer to your TV, but the MacBook Air doesn’t have one of those. But it is still a 13-inch laptop, which means that the screen is not very large. You can read our review to see more of what we thought of the 2012 MacBook Air. It’s very lightweight, it has a long battery life, and the keyboard and touchpad are outstanding. Mine don't.There are a lot of reasons to like your MacBook Air.

However, I read that this won't work unless your monitors have MiniDisplay Ports. But I thought it might be worth it to do it this way, so that if I get a new computer sometime down the road in the next couple of years, I already have a dock, and not just a useless adapter. Will this work, or am I taking crazy pills?īuy a USB to HDMI adapter with video card and connect one monitor via Thunderbolt, and one via one of the USB 3.0 slots.

Then connect the monitors to the dock.Įverything seems to be compatible, but it's all a bit confusing. So I'd plug the MiniDisplay Port cable into my laptop's Thunderbolt 1 port, plug the other end into the adapter's thunderbolt 1/thunderbolt 2 port, then plug the adapter's Thunderbolt 3/USB C end into the dock's USB C/Thunderbolt 3 input. wondering if anybody has tried anything similar.Īpple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter Also compatible with Thunderbolt 1 (though I'll be damned-I can't seem to find a bidirectional/correct direction cable that isn't $50-Apple or otherwise.) I think I've come up with the solution as to how to do this, but I wanted to check if this will actually work. I understand that this is the same shape as MiniDisplay Port (thunderbolt 2) and they are (somewhat) cross-compatible (thunderbolt 1 can go to thunderbolt 2, but not the other way around?). However, this laptop has only a Thunderbolt port for video output (Thunderbolt 1). I'm looking into running two external monitors from the Thunderbolt port (for school and work. I have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro, non-retina (In which I installed a 1TB SSD and 16gb RAM a little while back).

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