Hello,
Yesterday I purchased a 13" MacBook Pro and a Thunderbolt cable. I figured out how to use my 27" iMac as an extended display for the MacBook Pro by clicking cmnd F2 on the iMac's keyboard but how do you use MacBook Pro as an extended display for the iMac? Clicking cmnd F2 on the laptop doesn't work.
I've come up empty with my searches.
Thanks in advance!
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
Bob, while I didn't know what exactly to search for or communicate-well what I was looking for (I knew I din't want just mirroring), your suggestion to use Teleport intrigued me and is exactly the solution I was looking for. Many thanks for your suggestion!
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I have iMac with Retina with 4GB video and 15" Retina MacBook Pro. Naturally I wanted to use the laptop as a second monitor. I tried Air Display (US$19.99) over ethernet and it does "work" but the entire system is too laggy to use. Mouse and keyboard response times are affected even when working only on the native iMac display. The virtual display's response time is even worse. This is true regardless of the settings chosen for the displays and for the Air Display Host app, and even when the virtual display is shown in a local window when the laptop is disconnected.
I suspect this may be because the iMac's graphics hardware is not strong enough to render 5k plus 2560x1600. Air Display can't help that but it might improve the situation if there were an option to reduce the virtual screen's resolution to something much smaller like 1024x640 without HiDPI. As it stands today, Air Display is useless for connecting a Retina iMac to a Retina MBP.
Hey was there ever a solution for this? I have exact same problem. I have an iMac running fcpx and want to use MBP to view preview...I have them connected using thunderbolt but can only extend MBP to iMac and not visa versa. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks
I've used teleport with a thunderbolt cable connecting the two and it works seamlessly!
MacBook Pro as second monitor for 27" iMac
