How to connect a laptop to a beamer

For a cosy movie night or an important presentation, you can easily connect your laptop to a beamer. In the following we will explain how it works.

How to connect your laptop and projector

The decisive factor for the solution is which connections the devices have. Often both devices have an HDMI connection and you can use your normal HDMI cable with which you also connect the laptop to a larger screen.

• First, pick out the HDMI cable. If there is another connection, you will have to work with adapters. These are available on the Internet, depending on which one you need.
• And that’s it. If you still want to connect speakers, you should of course check which connections are available for them.
• If there is only a VGA connection on the projector, the connection is also easy, although a little more complicated.
• Since most laptops these days only have an HDMI port, you will need an HDMI to VGA adapter.
• You then connect the HDMI connector of this cable to your laptop while plugging the VGA connector into the projector.
• If you do not have an HDMI connection on your laptop, you can also connect to the beamer via the USB slot. The prerequisite for this is that the beamer has a suitable connection. If, for example, a mini-USB connection is available on the beamer, you can use such an adapter.