Price range: $17.99 through $24.99 Inc GST
A mini displayport to hdmi cable is what you need when the laptop has a small, angled-corner port and the screen in front of you only takes HDMI. One lead, no dongle hanging off the side, no adapter to lose. Plug the small end into the laptop, the HDMI end into the monitor or TV, and the picture arrives.
This is a direct lead, not a converter box. The Mini DisplayPort end takes the video signal your laptop can already send in HDMI’s own format, and the HDMI end delivers it to the screen. There is nothing to power, nothing to install and no driver to find — which is why a mini displayport to hdmi cable is the simplest way to get a second screen working on an older MacBook, Surface or ThinkPad.
A mini displayport to hdmi link carries sound as well as picture. If the TV or monitor has speakers, the audio travels down the same lead, so a laptop on a living-room TV gets both without a separate audio cable.
One thing worth knowing before you order: mini displayport to hdmi runs one way only, from the laptop out to the screen. It will not take an HDMI source and feed it into a Mini DisplayPort monitor; no passive cable does.
This is the honest number, and most listings will not give it to you. Over mini displayport to hdmi, 4K (3840 × 2160) runs at 30Hz, and 1440p and 1080p run at 60Hz.
Thirty hertz is fine for a spreadsheet, a dashboard or a film. It is not fine for a mouse pointer — at 30Hz the cursor smears and the machine feels laggy. So for a screen you actually work at, 1440p at 60Hz is the better setting than 4K at 30Hz, even though the bigger number looks better on the box.
The 60Hz figure is the one to plan around. If you need 4K at 60Hz, you need an active converter rather than a passive lead, and we will tell you so rather than sell you this one.
Every mini displayport to hdmi lead here has gold-plated contacts on both plugs, a braided shield under a smooth PVC jacket, and moulded housings with a proper strain-relief neck where the cable leaves the plug. That neck is where cheap leads die — it takes every bend when a laptop is opened, closed and shoved into a bag.
The jacket is plain black and flexible rather than braided, so it coils flat behind a desk and does not fight you. At 1.8 metres it reaches a monitor on the same desk; at 3 metres it crosses a room to a wall-mounted TV.
Look at the laptop, not the year. Mini DisplayPort is a small port with two angled corners, and it appears on MacBooks and iMacs from roughly 2008 to 2015, on Surface Pro 1 through 4, and on a long run of ThinkPad and Dell business machines.
Thunderbolt 1 and Thunderbolt 2 use the same socket, so a Thunderbolt 2 Mac takes this lead as a thunderbolt to hdmi cable without any adapter. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 do not — those are USB-C shaped, and they need a USB-C lead instead. The port has to support Dual-Mode (DP++), which Macs and Surface tablets of that era do.
This mini displayport to hdmi cable is stocked in Melbourne and ready to go — order before 10am and your thunderbolt to hdmi cable ships the same day via Australia Post with insurance, backed by our 90-day warranty and a team who can confirm it’s the right lead for your laptop.
Stocked here, not shipped from overseas. Order your mini displayport to hdmi cable today and get the second screen working this week.
Compatible with:
Apple — Mini DisplayPort and Thunderbolt 1 / 2 era
Microsoft
Windows laptops and desktops
Displays
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