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Pros & Cons
Pros
Works perfectly for hooking your surface tablet to a docking station, external monitor, or television. A breeze to install even for a novice like me. The surface comes with a micro video out port and this cable converts it to a normal video outport.
Cons
Product is a knock off, not a startech. Works intermittently with microsoft surface pro. Not as good as original apple connector.
Highlights
Quality
Great, no problems, easily adapted my laptop to 2 screens.
Worked perfectly with lenovo x1 carbon and connected to vga cord from projector
Was plugged and unplugged and re plugged numerous times.
Plus, whenever i moved the laptop even just a bit, the external monitor display disappeared until i jiggled the cable and went ... Read More
Price
Reasonably priced adapter so i can connect my laptop to my monitor
It cost a little more but is holding up well.
Shipping
Arrived on time and was exactly as described.
Competitiveness
I use xfce as my desktop, and use arandr to control the display layout.
By comparison, the apple-branded connector had about an 80% success rate.
I have had very good luck with startech products.
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- How are reviewers describing this item?
great, surface, good, pro and port. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 1.
- Previous analysis of this listing was an C grade.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 76.6% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 541 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 20 2024.
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Plus whenever i moved the laptop even just a bit the external monitor display disappeared until i jiggled the cable and went through other gyrations to bring it back
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This one is obviously better quality
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Needed it in a hurry and received it in a hurry
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I scanned through the review and saw that this product is compatible with xps 13
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But it turned out that it is not compatible with xps 13 9350
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
By comparison the applebranded connector had about an 80 success rate
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Takes up virtually no desk space
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