« «
» »

Little Mac Help?

Can anyone point me to a tutorial on using a projector with a Macbook Pro? I’ve done it a couple of times, and have managed to get what I need each time, but I suspect it’s been a lot more aggravating than it should have been. I haven’t found anything like the Fn-F8 toggle on our Dell laptops at work, which is simple enough. The Mac hasn’t been that simple for me, so I’d like to do some research and figure out what I am missing.

Surely I AM missing something, right?

No related posts.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 9:24 pm and is filed under Mac, Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

  • bob.os

    System Settings -> Displays. Toggle Show Displays in Menu Bar.

    The menu bar item is pretty self explanatory.

  • George Starcher

    All you have to do is attach the projector via the dvi port, you may have to use a dvi to vga adapter. Then go into system preferences, displays and click Detect Displays. Just like adding a second monitor.

  • Mike McBride

    George, I’ve done the vga to dvi adapter, and usually I do get it to work, but it just seems a little harder than it does on a Windows laptop.

    Plus I’ve run into situations where it detects the second display, but the display does not recognize the input from the Macintosh without some fiddling with the OS X settings. Seems like I’m missing something, maybe it is just me.

    Thanks for the tip bob.os that might help to have it right there too.

  • My Other Projects

    My Child Abuse Blog
    MikeMac on Sports
    My Facebook
    LinkedIn Profile
    My Twitter
    My Google Plus
    My link blog
    My Flickr
    Male Abuse Awareness Week
    Friends in Tech Group Blog
    Pinterest

  • Archives

  • www.flickr.com

  • Follow on Facebook

  • Like this

    Follow me

    Share This

  • free hit counter

  • Creative Commons License
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

  • Meta