$14.95 Inc GST
A usb c to vga adapter puts a modern laptop onto an old monitor, a boardroom projector or a classroom screen — the ones with the blue fifteen-hole socket that are still everywhere and show no sign of leaving.
This is not a passive lead, and it cannot be. VGA is an analogue signal; USB-C carries digital video over DisplayPort Alt Mode. Something has to convert one into the other, and that something is a chip inside the shell. Any usb c to vga adapter sold without electronics in it does not work.
That is why it has a short captive lead and a moulded body rather than being a simple plug.
Your laptop’s USB-C port must support DisplayPort Alt Mode. Most do — MacBooks since 2016, Dell XPS, Lenovo ThinkPad, HP Spectre, Surface from the Pro 7 onward, and most Chromebooks — but some USB-C ports are data and charging only, particularly on cheaper laptops and on most phones.
The connector is physically identical either way. If the port does not do Alt Mode you get no picture at all, and it looks exactly like a faulty adapter. It is worth checking before you order, and we would rather say so now.
The adapter has a VGA female socket, so you connect it with an ordinary VGA cable — the kind already running to the projector or screwed into the back of the monitor. You do not plug this straight into the display.
That is the right way round for the job: boardroom and classroom VGA cables are fixed, and a usb c to vga adapter that takes a cable rather than being one is what belongs on the end of a laptop. Note the Australian spelling too — a usb c to vga adaptor is the same part.
Up to 1080p at 60Hz, which is the practical ceiling for VGA and more than any projector of that era will show. VGA carries no audio at all — there are no audio pins in the connector — so sound stays on the laptop’s own speakers or goes out separately on a 3.5mm lead.
No usb c to vga adapter can carry sound, and any listing that says otherwise is describing a different connector.
People search for a usb c to vga cable as often as an adapter, and on most products the two words are interchangeable. On this one they are not. A cable has a plug at each end and reaches across a room. This has a socket, and it sits on the end of the laptop.
If the room has a VGA cable already run — and boardrooms and lecture theatres always do — the adapter is what you want. A usb c to vga cable would mean carrying five metres of VGA in a laptop bag, which nobody does twice.
The reason to own a usb c to vga adapter is almost never the monitor at home. It is the ten minutes before a presentation in a room you have never been in, where the only cable on the table is VGA and the laptop has nothing but USB-C ports.
A usb c to vga adapter costs less than a taxi and lives in the laptop sleeve. That is the whole argument.
This usb c to vga adapter is stocked in Melbourne and ready to go — order before 10am and your usb c to vga cable ships the same day via Australia Post with insurance, backed by our 180-day warranty and a team who can confirm it suits the laptop you own.
Stocked here, not shipped from overseas. Order your usb c to vga adapter today and stop borrowing one on the morning of the meeting.
Compatible with laptops and tablets whose USB-C port supports DisplayPort Alt Mode, including:
⚠️ The host requirement is what decides this. A USB-C port that is data-and-charging only produces no picture at all — the plug fits either way, so there is no way to tell by looking. Check the laptop’s specification for “DisplayPort Alt Mode”, “video out” or “Thunderbolt” before ordering.
At the display end: the adapter has a VGA female socket, so it takes an ordinary VGA cable. Connect it to any projector, monitor or screen with a VGA input.
Resolution: up to 1080p at 60Hz.
⛔ No audio. VGA has no audio pins. Sound stays on the laptop or goes out separately.
Device and brand names above are used only to describe which laptops have the port this needs.
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