Hi Ronni, Many thanks for that info. I will, with your permission of course, forward it on to my youngest daughter. Her 2007 27” iMac died recently - the problem was in the Monitor and apparently, replacement parts are not available - don’t know the exact cirumstances. Due to serious health situations in her family she is not in a position to puchase a new full computer (of the Apple kind) but will have to buy a cheap Windoze laptop for work purposes. She would like to purchase a MacMini and be able to use the laptop as a monitor.
Please let me know if there is a problem with forwarding this information. Regards John T > On 6 Feb 2019, at 10:36 am, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hello John, > > I’m not sure if this is still applicable, Daniel, Peter H or others will be > able to confirm. > I prefer to use a separate monitor. > > It’s a Yes and No situation. > /Begin Quote: > “The vast majority of Windows laptops have a graphics OUT port, but no > graphics in port, so you can't just connect up your Mac Mini to the graphics > port on the back of your laptop. > > However, you can run remote control software on your Mac that displays your > Mac output on the screen of another computer (and, for that matter, allows > the remote computers keyboard and mouse to be used.) The fact that the remote > computer could use its keyboard and mouse doesn't stop the devices actually > plugged into your Mac Mini from working, so you could quite happily control > the Mac with its own devices, but let the screen display over the network > onto your Windows laptop. > > There are some caveats, the solution I'm describing works well for office > applications, and stuff where the screen doesn't update that quickly. Don't > even consider using it for games - you need a direct connection from the Mac > Mini to a real monitor for those.” > /End Quote: > > Kind Regards, > Ronni > > Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > > >> On 6 Feb 2019, at 9:55 am, John Thompson <jetj...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: >> >> Just a quick question to the group. >> >> Is it possible to use a laptop, any laptop not just Apple, as a monitor for >> a MacMini? >> >> Regards >> >> John Thompson >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
