2005 iMac G5 to Macbook Pro monitor setup: is it Possible?

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2005 iMac G5 to Macbook Pro monitor setup: is it Possible?

I'm troubleshooting an old iMac with my Macbook Pro and I want to use my Macbook as a monitor. How can I connect my 2005 iMac G5 (no iSight) to my 2011 Macbook Pro? Is there a way I can connect my monitors via a Mini-VGA out to a Thunderbolt in? The iMac monitor goes off after 15-20 minutes and the main think I want to do is transfer data to an external dirve but i need a properly working monitor. Any way I can do this with one cable? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, so far i can only think up a rig of a couple different cables hooked together (mini-vga to hdmi cable connected to a hdmi to thunderbolt) Thanks!

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011)

Posted on Mar 24, 2014 7:11 PM

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Kappy

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Mar 24, 2014 7:13 PM in response to Bevacqua

No, that is not possible.

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Answer 2

Mar 26, 2014 11:33 AM in response to Bevacqua

Actually it is but it is extremely complecated and involves an emulator called "Q"

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Answer 3

Mar 26, 2014 11:34 AM in response to Kappy

I'm a very big fan of you Kappy!

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Kappy

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Mar 26, 2014 11:39 AM in response to THINK DIFFERENT. -STEVE JOBS

I once used Q and QEMU quite some time back. Don't recall that as a feature then.

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Mar 26, 2014 11:42 AM in response to Kappy

As I said an extremely difficult process, you have to add a mod I'll link it to this forum when I find it.

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MlchaelLAX

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Mar 26, 2014 1:12 PM in response to Bevacqua

I have a similar situation when a friend gave me his Mac Mini with a dead video output.

I used Screen Sharing to control it from my other Mac Mini that I am typing on now. I think this is referred to as a "headless" Mac Mini and I connected an Apple dongle to the Monitor out jack that provided a composite jack, just so it would think it was connected to a monitor.

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a brody

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Mar 27, 2014 6:32 PM in response to Bevacqua

iChat supports screen sharing with Bonjour. You could pull up iChat on both machines and use screen sharing that way. Slow, but it would work. Mind you aren't using the newer machine's processor to display the older machine's content. That's all still controlled by the older machine.

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