Can I connect my 2011 iMac with a 2019 intel MacBook Pro to use the old iMac as a display when the MacBook Pro has no thunderbolt 2 ports? Does this work with an adapter from thunderbolt 2 to thunderbolt 3 (usb-c)?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.5
If you review the Target Display Mode (TDM) article linked above your user name, you'll see the the Mac—your 2019 Macbook Pro in this case—sending the video signal to a TDM-supported iMac must be running no higher macOS the 10.15 "Catalina." Yours appears to have macOS 13.5 "Ventura."
So no.
Even were you running an older OS version on the Macbook Pro, the required thunderbolt cables and T-Bolt to Mini-Display port adapters can cost between US$60 and 90. For that, you can usually find a decent external on sale.
A free-standing external monitor has many advantages over any iMac running in Target Display Mode, such as.
TDM is dead tech, existing only in memory by wishful thinking during COVID. Web "authors," devoid of income, editorial help, and basic research skills, started making up things that TDM could do. Touted as the "works-with-anything" cure-all, in reality Apple had already buried TDM before the world shut down in 2020.
If you review the Target Display Mode (TDM) article linked above your user name, you'll see the the Mac—your 2019 Macbook Pro in this case—sending the video signal to a TDM-supported iMac must be running no higher macOS the 10.15 "Catalina." Yours appears to have macOS 13.5 "Ventura."
So no.
Even were you running an older OS version on the Macbook Pro, the required thunderbolt cables and T-Bolt to Mini-Display port adapters can cost between US$60 and 90. For that, you can usually find a decent external on sale.
A free-standing external monitor has many advantages over any iMac running in Target Display Mode, such as.
TDM is dead tech, existing only in memory by wishful thinking during COVID. Web "authors," devoid of income, editorial help, and basic research skills, started making up things that TDM could do. Touted as the "works-with-anything" cure-all, in reality Apple had already buried TDM before the world shut down in 2020.
Does this work with an adapter?
