How To Connect A Macbook To An External Monitor

Macbooks are very useful, as they are extremely portable and allow you to perform all the activities that you like, giving you both performance and independence, as you are able to work on it away from home, in any place you might want to visit. However, from time to time, you may want to view what's on your Macbook on a bigger sized screen, for example when you watch a movie with your firends at the weekend or display a special slide-show with older pictures of your girlfriend for her birthday or any other activities that look better on a larger screen.

As your Macbook is perfect only for one user, when you want to do these things you will want to know how to connect a Macbook to an external monitor. Well, it's not that difficult. You know, the people who manufactured and designed the MacBook already thought about it before you did , so they made it possible for all MacBook users to connect to an external monitor if they want to. So that is why both the computer monitor and the MacBook have some cables and outings that allow the connection to be made immediately. There are three different types of cables that you can use; the first one is the mini DVI to video adapter for S-video port, but the latest devices are more modern and have very nice VGA or DVI cables that allow the easy and accurate communication between the two devices. You might need to use and adaptor as there is no VGA or DVI port at the back of your monitor.If you own a macBook Pro you will probably need only to insert the DVI cable in or use the DVI-VGA adaptor.These cables and adaptors are not very expensive, being sold for about $20 in all specialized stores and also in the online stores.

If you haven't done that operation before and want to know how to connect a MacBook to an external monitor exactly and the steps you need to take, here is a tutorial. But if you are a bit into technology you won't need one, as it's not rocket science to connect two devices through a cable. After that you have the possibility to use the external monitor at the same time with your MacBook's screen or as the main screen, or you can use both screens in parallel. In order to do this enter your MacBook's settings and choose either the parallel functioning or the external monitor as desktop. In he last case you can even turn off the screen of your MacBook and use it as keyboard.

Any way, there are a few things you need to consider when you do this. First of all you have to change the resolution of your desktop because the image can suffer changes due to the different size of the display screen. So you will have to adjust it to the maximum resolution in order to have a nice and clear picture on the external monitor.

It wasn't that hard after all.