I love that Apple puts a display output on all of their Macs, but honestly, the Mini DisplayPort is useless. Seriously, the only thing it’s good for is adaptation. My favorite thing to adapt it to is HDMI since it’s infinitely more common on any TV you might come across. Kanex has an adapter or two that handle this conversion for you, and although a Mini Displayport to HDMI adapter is a good purchase, I’m just not sure their iAdapt 51 is the one for you.

If there’s one port that users want more than any other on new Macs, it’s a firewire an HDMI port. There’s a way to do it already, but it’s clumsy. You currently need a Mini DisplayPort to DVI, and then either a DVI cable and a DVI to HDMI adapter, or a DVI to HDMI more »