[Noisebridge-discuss] need to borrow a mini-displayport adapter

[Ani Niow]

On recent news, looks like only a VGA adapter will work. Damn.


-Ani

On Aug 20, 2009, at 12:43 AM, Ani Niow <v at oneletterwonder.com> wrote:

> Saturday I'm manning (womaning?) a video chat between some  
> performers at an event and another one that could unfortunately not  
> make it due to vocal strain but she still wants to do some kind of  
> performance from home so I'm coordinating a video/text chat that  
> will be displayed on the projector. Trouble is I lost my adapter in  
> my recent move and need to borrow another one.
>
> This is for a newer unibody MacBook, the ones with the mini- 
> displayport on them and the projector only accepts VGA input. I had  
> a mini-displayport to VGA adapter but as I mentioned, it is missing  
> and I need one to borrow very soon. A DVI one from Apple will not  
> work given the pin incompatibilities between it and most DVI-VGA  
> adapters but one from Monoprice will, otherwise a straight up VGA  
> adapter will be perfect.
>
> If anyone has one to spare for Saturday that will be perfect, I only  
> need it for one day. And thanks in advance if I'm able to borrow one  
> this weekend.
>
>
> -Ani