Connecting a vga monitor

Well I have never had a MAC before and now starting to wish I never bothered wasting my mony
The whole idea of the mac mini was perfect for my situation as I have a number of PC's
around the house with monitors.
None of my monitors will work with it at all I even went and bought a new thunderbolt to dvi adaptor
well I think thats what it is? its next to the right of the HDMI port BTW i have mac mini july 2011
Please Please will someone tell me either what I am doing wrong or if there is a solution to my problem
preferbly without shelling out any more mony as I am a student with limited funds. I do hope someone
here can reashore me of making the right choose in buying into apple after staying away from them
for so many years.
The only way I have used it is by connecting it to my TV with the HDMI which is compleatly unpraticle
Regards
J

If you've got a VGA only monitor, you need one of these:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB572Z/A
The Thunderbolt port is physically the same as Mini DisplayPort and is backwards compatible with it. The DVI adapter very likely is meant for a digital only connection, and thus will not adapt to VGA. Even if it was offering a digital or analog connection (as some DVI connectors do), you would have to buy a DVI to VGA adapter as well. Its cleaner and more efficient and trouble free to use the one step adapter.

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