Our tutorial below will show you which cable to get, then walk you through the process of making the connection work. This is a different type of connection for watching video on another display, and you can get a MiniDisplayPort to HDMI cable that lets you make the connection from the laptop to your TV. Fortunately your MacBook Air does have a MiniDisplayPort, or Thunderbolt port. You might need to change a display setting on your computer, but it’s a fairly straightforward procedure, and makes viewing content from a laptop on a television pretty convenient.īut you might have noticed that your MacBook Air doesn’t have an HDMI port, which makes this type of connection a little trickier. Connecting most modern Windows laptops to an HDTV is usually as simple as connecting a basic HDMI cable to the laptop, then connecting the other end of that cable to the TV.
