Dual monitor quezz

[ø]

Oyh!

I'm wondering if there is possible to hook up a MacBook with an iMac and using them dual-screen-vise!? Been reading up on stuff, but never figured out if it's possible with the laptop/iMac.

Cheers :D

[Seb Hughes]

Oyh!

I'm wondering if there is possible to hook up a MacBook with an iMac and using them dual-screen-vise!? Been reading up on stuff, but never figured out if it's possible with the laptop/iMac.

Cheers :D

I don't think that is possible hooking up a computer with another one. If you wanted to hook up a monitor that would work, but I don't think pc to pc would work. I might be wrong.

[ø]

I don't think that is possible hooking up a computer with another one. If you wanted to hook up a monitor that would work, but I don't think pc to pc would work. I might be wrong.

That's what I thought..

Others?

[DanontheMoon]

You could turn the macbook on in target disk mode (connect it to another computer via firewire and hold T while it boots up). Just hook the 2nd monitor up to your iMac.

[ø]

Target disk mode sounds fishy.. does it just work through the firewire getting info from the tosh hd? Any risks of having it that way?

And by hooking up the 2nd monitor, do you mean just having the "monitor cable thingy" (don't remember the name) from the iMac over to the MacBook?

[Yeldarb]

If you need to drag windows between screens, this won't work, but you could use Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) to control the laptop and iMac from one mouse and keyboard. Then it would seem like it was just dual monitors.

[ø]

If you need to drag windows between screens, this won't work, but you could use Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) to control the laptop and iMac from one mouse and keyboard. Then it would seem like it was just dual monitors.

Gah, that would just be frustrating:P

Thanks guys :)

[Seb Hughes]

Why not buy a cinema display?

[DanontheMoon]

Perhaps something happened to the money tree in his backyard. :P

There's no risk to running your macbook in target disk mode, it basically makes your macbook into a fancy external HDD. As for two monitors...

http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/1335/store.apple.com/Catalog/regional/amr/imac/img/gallery-big-03.jpg

Um.. Where are the DVI connectors? I see video out, so maybe you'd need an adaptor.. What the hell kinda video-out format is that? (This is why, were I to get a mac, it'd have to be a mac pro. This looks ridiculous.)

[Theros]

Perhaps something happened to the money tree in his backyard. :P

There's no risk to running your macbook in target disk mode, it basically makes your macbook into a fancy external HDD. As for two monitors...

http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/2041/1335/store.apple.com/Catalog/regional/amr/imac/img/gallery-big-03.jpg

Um.. Where are the DVI connectors? I see video out, so maybe you'd need an adaptor.. What the hell kinda video-out format is that? (This is why, were I to get a mac, it'd have to be a mac pro. This looks ridiculous.)

Last time I heard, they make it so you'd have to buy another $50 adapter to output video... :(

[hybrid101]

i'd go for synergy as well, makes life easier:P