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User profile for user: Stevem411
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Mac Mini M1

Why doesn’t Apple update the target display mode page? At the retail store the seller informed me that I could use my old IMac (2011 late) to use with my new Mac Mini M1. This is not true. I was on the phone for 2 hours until someone finally knew that the new Mac Mini doesn’t work with target display mode. Extremely frustrating since it was my Dad’s Christmas gift and now he doesn’t have a monitor with his new gift. Not to mention driving 45 to an Apple store in a mall in a pandemic. Needs to be resolved.

Posted on Jan 1, 2021 1:12 PM

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User profile for user: Malcolm J. Rayfield
Malcolm J. Rayfield
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Posted on Jan 2, 2021 12:01 AM

"Why doesn’t Apple update the target display mode page?"


It doesn't need updating. It already says that the new Mac mni can't use an iMac as a display.

Use your iMac as a display with target display mode - Apple Support

"You can connect any of these older iMac models to another Mac from 2019 or earlier for use as an external display."

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User profile for user: Malcolm J. Rayfield
Malcolm J. Rayfield
User level: Level 7
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Jan 2, 2021 12:01 AM in response to Stevem411

"Why doesn’t Apple update the target display mode page?"


It doesn't need updating. It already says that the new Mac mni can't use an iMac as a display.

Use your iMac as a display with target display mode - Apple Support

"You can connect any of these older iMac models to another Mac from 2019 or earlier for use as an external display."

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