I have got iMac (2014 model), which I want to use as external display for my windows laptop. Is is possible? if yes, how?  I have got a male-to-male mini-display to hdmi connector. But when I connect both my iMac &amp; pc, and I press command+F2 on my iMac nothing happens.  I'm struggling to get Target Display Mode enabled on my iMac, but it doesn't do any thing when I press command + F2. Any help is much appreciated.  Thanks, vj
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Recently (less than one year ago) i bought an iMac 21,5". Now i would like to use it as secondary monitor for my laptop. (My laptop runs Windows 7).  Is it possible? (I found conflicting opinions on the web, even on the Apple forum).  What type of cable do I need? (I will appreciate also a link to the product on some online store: amazon, ebay etc.)  Thank you in advance.  UPDATE:  I tried air display... i'm not satisfied at all...  typical scenario: browser window on the main Windows laptop, dev tools/firebug on the secondary iMac screen. The mouse goes fast between the 2 screens (GOOD), but when i changed the selected tab nothing happens. I had to drag the dev tools window to the main screen to get an update of the selected tab.  My test is ended here.  I'm still waiting for other answers.   I will prefer an answer that suggest me what kind of cable i've to buy, and where i can find it on the web.
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I've recently been reading about new peripherals for the Mac (such as ). I'm very attached to using an external display, but since the DisplayPort is now combined with Thunderbolt, how is it expected that we use an external display and a device?  As I understand it, Thunderbolt supports daisy chaining up to 7 devices, but it would appear that the display/device doesn't support this. Are we going to start seeing ThunderBolt "hubs" anytime soon, or am I asking this question too early?
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When I plug my Mac  into a DisplayPort monitor that has loudspeakers, the Mac's volume controls become disabled.    Is Apple assuming that if I have external speakers I am so much better using their own volume control that I have to be forced to do it?   That is annoying because the monitor's volume controls are buried in terrible menus accessed by terrible buttons on the back of the monitor.  Also, if I am inside an app where I can select the audio device and I select the Mac's internal speakers, the volume controls are STILL disabled.  Is there no way to control the volume of an app when an external speaker is connected even if the app is not using the external speaker?????  Some additional info: It's a Macbook Pro 13" 2018 version.  Using a Thunderbolt to Displayport cable, plugging in to a Dell monitor with speakers.    In another location I use the same cable to plug in to Dell monitors with Displayport but without built in speakers in the monitors.   At that location the volume controls remain active and they control the internal speaker in the laptop as they should.
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I have a larger, external monitor connected to my MacBook Pro and have arranged it such that the dock is in the external monitor (via System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement, by dragging the white bar to the larger screen). This works fine, except for the fact that every now and then, the dock will suddenly shift back to my MacBook screen, but when I open up Displays to change this back, the white bar is still on the external monitor. So I have to drag it to the smaller screen, and then drag it back to the external monitor.   It's a minor issue, obviously, but I've noticed that it has been happening more and more frequently and it's getting quite annoying. Perhaps there's something I've been doing unintentionally for this to happen?   I'm using Mavericks, 10.9.5.
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For some weeks my MacBook 6.2 does not switch to the integrated graphics adapter (Intel HD). This is especially crucial when I work on battery (which happens quite often). I guess the runtime could be enhanced when it would take the HD adapter for display.  I checked that it automatically changes the graphics mode. I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.  I recently installed 8GiB RAM (not from Apple). Could this probably related to this issue? Actually I do not want to downgrade or use the expensive Apple RAM.  So, how can I manually turn on the internal graphics adapter?
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I have an external monitor with a VGA connection. What is the best adapter to use for my Retina MacBook Pro? I think I've seen Thunderbolt to VGA, or USB to VGA? Or HDMI to VGA? What are the differences?
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How do you turn off the MacBook Pro’s display with the lid open while using an external monitor on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite?  All the previous methods—such as the one’s —that have worked on Mavericks no longer work on Yosemite.  Does anyone know the way to do this on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite? Turning down the brightness is not the same as turning off the display as the GPU still sends a signal to the internal display and the external monitor.  These were the terminal commands to achieve this on Mavericks:  Enable  sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"  Disable  sudo nvram -d boot-args  Anyone know how to achieve this on Yosemite?
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My question is actually fairly simple: is there any way i could run windows programs (for example PC games) on my iMac? (i am currently running OSX Snow Leopard). I know about things like VirtualBox and Parallels to run windows itself, but is there a Mac application that will allow me to run .exe programs and the like?
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I have a laptop with a graphics card that supports 2 displays. I would like to know the easiest way to set it up so I can close my laptop lid and use 2 external monitors (unique displays).  I use it primarily for office applications and video and want a quality, clear picture.  The laptop has 1 VGA port and I have 2 24" 1920x1200 monitors that have VGA and DVI ports. So a few questions:   Can I just use a VGA splitter? (seen mixed feedback on this) Would it a VGA to 2 DVI splitter give a better picture quality? (if it exists) Would I be better upgrading laptop to one with 2 digital ports ( I just see a lot with VGA and HDMI though)   specs: Model: Toshiba Satellite C675-S106 (Windows 7) Graphics Card: Intel HD Graphics 3000 (supports 2 displays) Processor: Intel Core i3-2350M
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MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016) with 2 USB-C to HDMI adapters. The setup works great if I start up in that configuration.   If I connect the adapters while the machine is running or simply sleeping, one of the monitors will never get a signal and stay in low power mode. The OS sees the monitor, it shows in the display arrangement settings and I can move the mouse into it, but until I restart, I can't see anything on it.  Once I have restarted I can let the machine sleep or whatever, and the display still works unless I disconnect the adapter. As soon as I do that a restart is required to use it again.   Using MacOS Sierra (10.12.4)  Using this adapter:
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I have a Surface Pro 4 and an iMac (late 2019). I would like to connect my Surface Pro to the iMac to use the iMac screen as a second monitor.  Is that possible?  What are the requirements to use an iMac as a second screen?
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I use a Full HD 24" external display besides my 15" MacBook Pro Retina, on which I use the option for most screen estate regarding the Retina display. In the display arrangement screen, the MacBook Pro is therefore a bigger rectangle than the external display. Is there a way to size these rectangles regarding their "real world size" instead of resolution? I'm annoyed by my cursor teleporting vertically whenever I move from one display to another.
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I have a HP dv9830us laptop. It has a vga-out and a hdmi-out port.  I want to know if it's possible to use 3 devices, each one with different displays, using just one graphic card - NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS? (Original, vga with an external monitor and hdmi with a full hd tv). Where I can find this kind of information?  If not possible, I would like to know alternatives like:   "Usb" solutions to be possible to connect to the external lcd or to a TV. The TV should be flawless, but the second monitor can have slow response times; (I've found some , do these units really work?) Cheap PCMCIA video cards to be possible to connect to an external monitor, so I would use the hdmi with the tv and this second video card to output to another monitor.   I'm using Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. Is this possible in both systems?
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I have been using a 24" monitor with my macbook pro early 2011 connected via a mini display port to DVI adaptor.  I recently received an HP Z30i 30" monitor.  When I connect to it with an mini display port to display port adaptor, although it displays at the monitors native 2560x1600 resolution, the mac is scaling the desktop display down so as to leave a 1cm or so black border around the desktop.  The mac reports using a resolution of 2560x1600 and the display reports this also.   This makes the display blurry as single pixels become sub pixels.   The display looks like the same effect as having "under scan" turned on when using an HDMI cable at 1080p.  I thought that maybe there was a hardware or display problem, but when I boot off a previous system partition from a different hard-drive using the same OS (10.8.5) release, the monitor set up works perfectly.  This proves the OS release, display and the hardware, so I'm thinking that there must be a preferences problem with my current setup.  Perhaps the under scan setting is somehow being applied to this display when it's not using HDMI?  I've tried deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist, ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver.HostNumber.plist and rebooting but no results.   The scaling is applied before the login screen and logging in as a different user has the same problem.  Any ideas?  It's driving me nuts, I've got this nice 30" screen and I can't use it!
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Is there anyway we can read the files in a Mac laptop using a Windows laptop?  Like I have a movies folder in Mac and I want to view those movies in my Windows laptop (without having to transfer those files through my USB thumb drive of course)
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I have an older macbook pro with a mini display port. Can I use a Thunderbolt display as an external monitor?
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I am running Mac OS X (Version 10.10.5) on a MacBook Pro (13 Inch, Mid 2010) and want to arrange an external monitor of the same type to different positions.  First, let me explain my setup:   monitor at my office: DELL U2312HM (located above the MacBook's screen) monitor at home: DELL U2312HM (located left of the MacBook's screen)   As you can see, I am using different monitors of the same type (they have different serial numbers displayed in the System Overview window). However, they are located either above or left of the internal screen.  Since the only way I know to arrange an external monitor is draging the blue boxes in the monitor section of the system preferences, I need to do this every morning after connecting my monitor in the office and every evening after coming home. The monitor arrangement does not depend on the monitor's serial number but on the model since saving the arrangement of different models works as desired.  So is there a way, a hidden setting, a hidden setting accessible through the terminal or even a third-party app which enables different monitor arrangements for the same monitor model but based on the monitor's serial number as shown in the system overview?  The behavior which seems to be a system default is very annoying and does not feel very apple-like.