HDMI to Mini DisplayPort Adapter, 4K HDMI to Mini DisplayPort Active HDMI 1.4 Source for Xbox One/360, Mac Mini, PC/Laptops to Mini DP 1.2 Out Monitor with DisplayPort/Mini DisplayPort

Works great to connect my very old monitor to my new laptop

IT WORKS ! I, for the life of me, cant figure out why this "active" adapter cost so much more then just about any other kind of PC cables. Even active 4k or 8k Mini DP TO HDMI out cost a mere $10 or less actually. I just dont understand and VERY VERY few companies manufacture this particular cable arrangment. BUT! I paid the price and it works well. My situation is that I simply didnt want the thick seemingly unbendable HDMI cables running from Laptop to 2 other displays. My "desk"/ "workstation" is actually my livingroom coffee table. I put 6" risers on the legs to elevate everything and Im trying my best to hide ALL Cables. I drilled a 2" hole in the floor years ago so I could run must of the cables and power supplies in the basement. It works, I have a fairly "clean" work surface and my wife doesnt complain too much. LoL. Check out the pics. I will/have to buy this again when needed.

I intended to use this Answin HDMI-to-MiniDP adapter to run my Apple 24" LED Cinema Display off of my M1 Mac mini's HDMI port. This adapter is advertised as supporting this specific monitor, and so I felt confident that it would work easily.Lo and behold, it didn't work. The monitor remained black. After fiddling with the HDMI connector a bit in the M1 Mac mini's HDMI port, I started to suspect that the adapter was at fault. I tested the adapter on three other machines that have both HDMI and Thunderbolt2/MiniDP ports: a 2013 Mac Pro, a 2014 MacBook Pro 15", and a 2015 MacBook Pro 15". On all of these machines, the monitor worked properly when connected directly to their Thunderbolt2 ports, but failed to work through their HDMI ports via the Answin adapter. Just to make sure that the HDMI ports actually worked on all of my Macs, I tested all of them on some old Acer monitor with an HDMI port. As expected, the HDMI ports on all of my Macs worked just fine.I've had enough. I simply returned the Answin adapter to my nearest UPS Store and bought myself a StarTech HDMI-to-DisplayPort adapter along with a StarTech DisplayPort-to-MiniDP adapter. And sure enough, the StarTech adapters worked for ALL of my Macs. I am now happily using my old Apple 24" LED Cinema Display with my not-as-old M1 Mac mini using StarTech's adapters via the Mac mini's HDMI port.After reading some of the success stories in other Amazon reviews about people connecting their Apple LED Cinema Displays to their PCs and Macs, it is possible that I got unlucky and got shipped a lemon adapter. Admittedly, I didn't request any sort of exchange with Answin to troubleshoot this further. But for an adapter that cost me nearly $50, I expected more out of Answin's quality control. After being sorely disappointed with another Answin adapter product, their 3-in-1 MagSafe-to-USBC charging adapter, I've found that their advertising seems to overpromise and underdeliver, forcing me to distrust Answin as a company.My recommendation for people needing adapters for older equipment is to spend a little more money on StarTech products. StarTech is an established brand for this kind of thing, and I have never went wrong with any of their cables or adapters. All of my StarTech cables and adapters have served me for years and are found to be reliable. Save yourself the headaches, and resist the urge to try saving a few bucks on generic brand products like Answin!

This let me use my old Apple LED Cinema Display with modern devices that have HDMI.

You cannot plug a Thunderball cable into a mini DP cable. They are not compatible. This product will not work with any new MacBook that is thunderbolt driven. You have to understand the difference between thunderbolt and minidp. The Apple LED cinema displays are mini DP driven. They are not compatible with thunderbolt driven components.The individual that has the video where he ends with this product sucks. He does not know the difference between Thunderbolt and mini DP. But what he did do that was great was when he plugged it in and it recognized the controller and displayed it on the LED cinema display. Is the reason why I bought this product.

I had a hiccup when I first tried this adapter, and I was literally typing a bad review when I made an adjustment and realized it was a problem with my cable, not this adapter. The connection to my monitor only worked when I physically and firmly pressed my mini display port cable into the adapter cable. When I released the pressure, the connection was lost. I have had a little trouble with my cable before this, so I tried switching cable ends so the computer end was now plugged into the back of my monitor, and the monitor end was now plugged into my new adapter. And then it worked great. This cable adapter seems like it has great physical build quality. I'm using this to connect my new M2 MacBook Pro to my old 2010 27" iMac, which I'm using as a monitor.

I had an old Apple Cinema Display that I wanted to repurpose to use with a new micro PC. The PC had a Display Port and the Cinema Display has a Mini Display Port cable, so I bought a simple Display Port-to-Mini Display Port adapter. That didn't work because life always has to be more complicated than that, particularly when mixing Apple and PC ecosystems. So, after consulting Google, which I should have done beforehand, I bought this to connect between the HDMI port on the PC and the Mini Display Port on the Cinema Display. Works like a charm. That said, it's a lot more expensive (active components?). The Display Port to Mini Display Port adapter was $9, all-in, and this is $54. But it works, so who's counting (though with 4K monitors going for < $400 now, it does make one pause).

Mac mini M2 Pro & 27" Apple Cinema Display (miniDisplayPort, not the Thunderbolt version).Add Lunar.fyi to control screen brightness and speaker volume from the keyboard.I tried several USB-C solutions in an effort to save some money over this $50 adapter.The USB-C solutions worked for me, but occasionally, once or twice a week, max resolution would drop from 1440p to 720p when waking from sleep.After trying several adapters, I finally broke down and gave this a try.Display lit right up, and controls retained through Lunar.fyi.This HDMI solution has been solid for the last couple of days.