We are often asked about whether we have an “adapter for my Mac laptop”.\u00a0 It may seem like a simple question, but is far more complicated in the end.\u00a0 You see, Apple has managed to change the port that adapters use 4 or 5 times in the past 7 years.\u00a0 The adapter needed will depend on the type of Mac, and its year.\u00a0 Recently, I stumbled upon this Apple support page which does a great job of listing the adapters that are available for a specific Mac computer.\u00a0 It even describes how you can figure out what year and model you have.\u00a0 Check this out:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT3235<\/a><\/p>\n The next question we often get is, “Where can I get one?”.\u00a0 It turns out, we probably don’t have one on hand – these often get lent out, and we never see them again.\u00a0 However, the library on campus has a loaner program too, and they are much better about their checkout process – so they can track who actually has it in order to get it back.\u00a0 The following site will show the availability of their various items, including Apple adapters:<\/p>\n http:\/\/lib.colostate.edu\/access\/availability<\/a><\/p>\n If you really need to own one of these yourself, you can either order it directly from Apple: http:\/\/store.apple.com<\/a>, or you can stop by RAMtech on campus and pick one up: https:\/\/www.bookstore.colostate.edu\/ramtech\/<\/a> – it might be a good idea to call them first and check on their availability of course.<\/p>\n I hope this helps clear up this confusion, at least a bit.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are often asked about whether we have an “adapter for my Mac laptop”.\u00a0 It may seem like a simple question, but is far more complicated in the end.\u00a0 You see, Apple has managed to change the port that adapters use 4 or 5 times in the past 7 years.\u00a0 The adapter needed will depend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnsit.colostate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}