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#IPAD PRO AS DISPLAY FOR MAC MINI SOFTWARE#
If you connect your iPad using a USB-C or Lightning cable, the connection is faster and more stable. Luna Display is the company that already offers a way for users to take a MacBook and then extend its display onto an iPad, but the company wanted to see whether it could also take a Mac mini and use a new iPad Pro as the device’s sole display. When you've installed the software and gone through those apps' setup instructions, your iPad is now a monitor for your Mac mini. It works both in a wired and wireless mode.
#IPAD PRO AS DISPLAY FOR MAC MINI WINDOWS#
Available now, Windows version coming soon. Once you have macOS Catalina installed on your Mac, you can connect your iPad to your computer and use it as an external display.
Plus, if you have you Mac laptop with you, you probably have the iPad too, and you don't even have to pack a cable. You wouldn't want to use this for anything motion-intensive, but as a place to keep your Twitter and IM clients, or even as an extra screen for something like Photoshop Lightroom, it is ideal. If you quit the app to do something else, the Mac resets back to a single screen, but if you get push-notifications they pop up on the iPad as normal, and you can tap to dismiss as normal. Touching is a little freaky, as multi-touch gestures don't work. Thats a tad larger than the 8.4-inch panel rumored for the iPad mini 6. The touch screen works, although you can mouse into the space as well. The Luna Display is a little adapter that plugs into the USB-C port on your Mac (for older Macs, theres a Mini DisplayPort version). The iPad mini Pro is said to sport a slimmer bezel, coupled with an 8.7-inch display.
Better, in fact, as the iPad has a pretty high-resolution screen. Once it is settled, though, after a second or so, the image is as clear as you'd expect. Coupled with a 13-inch MacBook, this adds around half the screen again to your work area. Watching videos on the iPad screen is choppy, and if you drag a window across it then there is a delay and the image pixellates somewhat. A new application called Air Display will let you use your iPad as an external display for your Mac. Because this works over the air (both machines need to be on the same Wi-Fi network), there is some lag.