is it out yet?
Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac
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Re: Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac
#112is it out yet?
Re: Use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac
#113Anything like this available for Windows? Wouldn't be bad for an email/IM screen.
Any VNC app allows you to view and control your screen. I like RealVNC. The corresponding app on Android and iOS is called VNC Viewer. There are several companies/projects that offer this functionality.
I meant adding the iPad as an additional screen (with additional desktop space) for a Windows machine.
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#114So where is it?!? It's the 16th and nowhere to be seen. BusinessInsider.com is now saying the 17th. I also wonder why they removed the Mac app from duetdisplay.com.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
You did not read the whole sentence. Duet is the first app that allows you to use your iDevice as an extra display for your Mac using the Lightning or 30-pin cable. This app uses a cable. All the other apps use wifi.
They have obviously changed the copy in the last few hours. The second half of that sentence ("Using…") was not there earlier.
You are right. My apologies.
https://web.archive.org/web/20141215154238/http://www.duetdi...
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#116If you want a proper external monitor to go with your laptop, invest in something like this: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1021217-REG/asus_mb168... .
+1 for linking to the lowest price I can find for it on the web (199 vs Amazon's 266).
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#117Here's the bit I was looking for: http://www.duetdisplay.com/#compatibility Compatible with all iPads, nice! I have an old iPad 1 lying around that runs very few of the apps I would like to use with it (Office suite and VLC, mostly), so I've been looking for a way to repurpose it, and this might be it.
Looks like they changed it to "All iPad hardware with iOS 6 and above". Which means no iPad 1. :(
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#118Well, the app is obviously working for some folks, but in my case it's junk. 13" MBA 2012 OS X 10.10.1 connecting with iPad Mini Retina or iPhone 5s (both iOS 8.1.2) using genuine Apple Lightning cable and direction connection (i.e. no USB hub). Most of the time the iOS app never gets beyond the "Connect to Mac" stage, even though the screen flashes on the Mac indicating new display hardware is available. Sometimes the iOS app gets to the "Launching Duet…" and hangs. Rarely, the iOS app actually becomes a display; however, when that happens my mouse is frozen (in a "stuttering" sort of way). Waste of good money for me.
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#119I wonder how they achieve "Zero lag". I've been using similar software ( AirDisplay [1] ) and the lagging is awful. You have to be certified hardware manufacturer if you want to use the USB connection to transmit any data between the iPad and your Mac [2]. So my bet is they either use WiFi ( which can roughly get 60fps on retina resolution ) or Bluetooth 4. In both cases I think the refresh rate would not satisfy in…