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    Evening,

    I've got a new job and I've been provided with a nice new laptop. It is a nice thin thing and it came with a port extender that connects to what I now know is a thunderbolt port. The port extender is a hefty little thing but is my only means at the moment of having a VGA port. Not usually a problem you'd have thought but most meeting rooms have a projector with a VGA cable sprouting from the table somewhere. What I'd like is a smaller lighter alternative to the port extender and to this end I've searched for thunderbolt to VGA. There are some nice & cheap ones available for about a fiver but say they are for apple devices. If I buy one will it work with my laptop, as in is there a standard? I'm OK to just buy one through work but I don't want to waste money unnecessarily on something that doesn't work. Thanks for any advice/reassurance.

    Incidentally the laptop is the bollocks I didn't realise until I looked it up. It is a dell precision 5510, 4k touchscreen and SSD. Really nice thing.
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    Default Re: Thunderbolt to VGA

    Don't know about Thunderbolt but What about USB to VGA?

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    i thought thunderbolt was the same as displayport

    so maybee a displayport mini to vga will suit.

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    OK thanks very much, I'll have a look at those 👍
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