How to hook up an external monitor to your Mac!

Another tutorial that teaches you on how to hook an external monitor to your Mac! In this video I used my white Macbook. This is a great tutorial, however you will need the following supplies to do this!
1. Any Mac Laptop (Macbook, Powerbook, iBook, Macbook Pro)
2. Mini VGA Adapter (You can buy one online for about $5!)
3. A Monitor (I am using a Sony Monitor in this video.)

Skill Level for this tutorial: Extremely Easy

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[5koliny]

You have the exact same macbook i have. So would this mean i have a mini-display port or a mini dvi thing? Thankyou!

[PinnacleStudio12]

@5koliny It means you would have the right port. But the cable you have to buy off Amazon.

[MrMetalfuckingmike]

thanks man :)

[PinnacleStudio12]

@MrMetalfuckingmike anytime bro!

[chrissy1812]

Right . The desktop to the computer shows way off on one side of the tv screen. I have to drag the video on my computer as far off to the right as I can. Then I can only see it on the tv bec 98% of the computer video is off the computer screen.

[PinnacleStudio12]

@chrissy1812 the only thing i'd say is go into your system preferences, go into displays, then adjust it until it fits your screen properly. that should fix it.

[86123maxxi]

@AJones413 depending on which MacBook Pro, you can. If you have a MBP with Thunderbolt, you can hook up to 6 Thunderbolt Displays or many more if you buy an external Thunderbolt Graphics Card. If you have a MBP with a Mini-DP port, you can hook up to only one display. Same if you have a MBP or PowerBook G4 with DVI.

[86123maxxi]

Why would you need to power down the laptop? I have a PowerBook G4 and all I need to do to plug it in to an external monitor is hook up the DVI cable or if I am using a VGA cabled monitor, a VGA-DVI adaptor. The rest is handled by Mac OS X itself. Come on this is the 21st century, everything now is hot pluggable.

[YM725]

Can you post a link to the adapter you used? I've been looking around online and I can't find it anymore with the new macbooks out.

Also, you talked about being able to use your macbook with it being closed while connected to the external monitor. Could you expand on that? Thanks!

[walker5232]

can i have the link to the one you got

[walker5232]

will this work on a 07 macbook?

[manwhohowlsatmoon]

I'm having the same exact problem, help please!!

[jacobduffney11]

Thanks