Target Display Mode with windows laptop

AVG0rdon wrote:

Hi,

I've read outside the apple website that it's possible to use Target Display Mode with a windows laptop, but can't seem to get it to work.

No idea where you read that but it's not possible.

AVG0rdon wrote:

I read it here: https://www.alphr.com/how-to-use-an-imac-as-a-monitor-for-pc/

I see. Well, just quickly looking through the comments I see just about no one could get it working. What I can say is Target Display Mode between a Mac and PC is unsupported.

I've read outside the apple website that it's possible to use Target Display Mode with a windows laptop, but can't seem to get it to work.

Here the deal:

1) Users, not Apple, accidentally discovered that a limited number of 2009 and 2010 27-inch iMacs would work with some non-Apple products. Never a "sure thing." 

2) Apple never intended, documented, nor supported this "happenstance."

3) That quirk of video hardware stopped when the 2011 models appeared. NOTHING newer even accidentally supported non-Apple devices through Target Display Mode, including your 2013 iMac.

4) People are spending a lot of money on unusable cables and adapters based on misinformation posted on other web sites. If you wasted money because of bad advice on a non-Apple web site, you have a legitimate complaint with that web site.

5) There is probably more spurious information on the internet about Target Display Mode than there is about the Loch Ness monster and a flat Earth. TDM has been incorrectly attributed as doing everything from supporting any video device ever created to parting the Red Sea.