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11 Mar, 2026






£24.41 inc. VAT
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For £20.38 ex-VAT, this is the kind of “just make it work” cable I’m happy to keep in the box for the UK office reality: a newer laptop/desktop with DisplayPort output that needs to drive an older VGA monitor/projector. The active part matters—without it you’re more likely to get flaky signal detection, blank screens, or refresh-rate weirdness. Also, the latching DisplayPort connector is a genuinely nice touch in shared meeting-room setups where cables get jostled constantly.
Who should buy it: anyone in IT support, facilities, or a small company routinely connecting DisplayPort devices to legacy VGA displays, especially for training rooms and ad-hoc presentations. Who should *skip* it: if you’re doing this as a daily primary connection for a graphics-sensitive workflow (CAD, colour-sensitive work), or you have lots of different devices and are regularly chasing “it works on my laptop” issues—VGA is the limiting factor anyway, and some GPUs are pickier with adapters/cables. In short: good value and practical for legacy hookups, but don’t treat it as a long-term “upgrade” to modern display quality.

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