All you need to do, though, is connect the display to your Mac’s Thunderbolt port, and you should find yourself good to go. The connection is particularly easy if you’re using an Apple Thunderbolt display. Adding a single external displayĪdding one external monitor to most Macs less than two or three years old is fairly straightforward. However, you can use Apple’s Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter, for only $29.00 (USD), to connect a Dell (or other manufacturer’s) DVI-compatible display to your Mac’s Thunderbolt port (Apple also offers a $29.00 Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter). Next, determine which displays are compatible with your Mac’s ports, because trying to connect a MacBook Pro’s HDMI port to a VGA-,DVI- or VGA- and DVI-only compatible display will prove to be an exercise in frustration. So, I recommend avoiding the third-party external video box option. While third-party electronic boxes are available that technically make it possible to connect external displays using their own proprietary technology, refresh rate, resolution and color matching issues sometimes make such solutions unreliable and problematic.
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For example, new MacBook Pros boast two Thunderbolt ports and HDMI connectivity, whereas MacBook Pros only a few years old possess a single Thunderbolt port and no HDMI connectivity.Īpple users seeking to deploy a second monitor using a Mac must determine the specific Mac model they are using and catalog the available ports. The options available for connecting external displays to your Mac depend, understandably, on the Mac model you own. But the trick is navigating the required physical connections. Once you successfully determine the physical connection required, OS X Yosemite rather elegantly adjusts for the second display. Connecting external displays to a Mac, unfortunately, isn’t always one of them. It's a common question: how do I connect an external display to my Mac? But the answer, unfortunately, is kind of complicated. How to best connect external displays to Macs