Lemorele USB to HDMI Adapter for MacBook Air/Pro/Mini
Lemorele USB to HDMI Adapter for MacBook Air/Pro/Mini, 1080P@60Hz USB to HDMI Cable for Mac, Supports Mirror/Expansion Mode, Multi Display Video Adapter, Compatible with Windows 7,8,10/MacOS10.15
Review from my husband:
This is a really useful little dongle that gives your laptop extra connectivity in the old HDMI department. It’s PC and Mac compatible so there are no restrictions on what platform you use it with. It’s all super easy to use, just plug in via USB and the box of tricks attached instantly gives you an HDMI output, which is excellent if you are doing presentations or just want a bigger viewing area. It does all the audio too, so it’s a really a nifty piece of kit to own. if you have a laptop, it displays at full HD 1920×1080 so the picture is no slouch. All in all, for 20 quid it’s a bit essential so you really do get the bigger picture 5/5
I wanted to get this in order to connect a monitor to my laptop through a HDMI cable and use the monitor under the “extended” setting.
The adapter connected to my laptop with it’s USB cable while the monitor HDMI cable had to go into the other end of the adapter.
Once link was established, the adapter had created another partition in “My Computer” ( like shown in the pictures) which required the installation of software.
Once installation was done I had to toggle the extended screen setting to “on” and change the picture quality setting to “performance”.
All of this was done quite seamlessly and in terms of what has not gone well, was the fact that the monitor’s brightness has gone up, needing readjusting, and also the mouse cursor displayed a glitch when moving to the extended monitor (like shown in the picture).
I am satisfied that the adapter can support the “extended” setting, however the glitch of the mouse cursor can be quite annoying.
Easy to set up in Windows if you read the instructions, which is to plug it in, and double click on the file shown in Windows Explorer. Instructions are given for Mac but I haven’t used it for that yet.
That was enough to make the display duplicate the main screen.
NOTE: Windows doesn’t see the additional monitor as an additional screen, so you can only duplicate your computer screen, not extend it. That means if you’re looking to have 2 independent monitors with different things on each then this is not going to be right for you. However, if you need to see your main screen duplicated on a second screen from an older computer which doesn’t have any other way of connecting another screen, such as a USB-C connection that supports video, then this would work well for you.
The image is maximum of 1080dp and I found that whilst the image on the second screen via this lead was equivalent and good quality, the cursor was a little blocky for some reason.
The repeat of the first screen could be useful if you were working off a laptop with a monitor and wanted to keep the laptop lid shut while you worked.
Recommended
I got this to connect a laptop to my TV which it does perfectly. The computer is running Windows 10 and all i had to do was connect it to the TV and after following the on screen instructions I was up and running in a couple of minutes. The adapter only does 1080p which is OK for me as I’m not particularly fussed about higher resolutions than that but it will be an issue for you if you are.
Only slight issue I have is the USB A lead is captive and very short (about 10 cm) – not a big deal really but a having a USB port would mean you can choose the length of lead you would prefer depending on where your devices are. All in all a very useful device for me and my (technologically) limited uses