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Want to show files (mp4's, pictures, powerpoints, etc.)
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**If I want to use it as a full on display, I'll plug in directly, or use a wired option.) It's a little laggy as it's not a straight HDMI pass through, but it's not bad. (Personally I have my Microsoft adapter plugged into an input on a android TV stick that is running the chromecast software via an app. The two have different functionality where they perform better. While Microsoft can stream movies and other services, it was designed as a wireless display. Remember, while chromecast can screen mirror, it wasn't designed for that. If you just want it to watch Netflix, Youtube, Pandora, etc, chromecast. So for screen mirroring and presenting things from a computer, I would go for a Microsoft adapter. So it independently connected to Netflix and your device just sat there as a wireless remote to the Chromecast
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edit: When first sold, the big advantage of a Chromecast was that it didn't waste your phone's battery compared to Miracast, as the Chromecast itself was what did the streaming, not the device sending information to it. It was designed to have it's own internet connection and software so that it could stream directly from the cloud (instead of connecting to your computer and having it do the streaming). edit: It uses Miracast, which can roughly be described as "HDMI over Wi-Fi" The Microsoft option is literally a second display. These are two completely different products, with just a small area of functionality overlap, which was largely forced by the community (Google did not want to have full screen mirroring at first with chromecast). Ok, so that depends on what you want and what you have.