How to Use a Laptop as a Second Display for Your Desktop

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Want to use that extra screen for a little more real estate, even without any cords or cables? Here's how.

. Pick your laptop when it appears in the list, and the connection is made.in the Windows Settings pane—so you can duplicate the two displays, or extend them so you've got twice as much room. Windows can be dragged between the two screens just as if you had an external monitor hooked up. On the secondary laptop, the second display runs in a window by default, but you can make it full screen if needed.

The big prerequisite is that both Macs must be running macOS Monterey or later, to make sure you've got all the necessary technology built into the software. If that's the case, then your two Apple computers also both need to be online and signed into the same Apple ID account, which we're assuming is the setup that you're most likely to have.

Another way to get to the same setting is to open the Apple menu in macOS on your main desktop Mac, then select: Choose your MacBook from the list that appears, and the connection is made. It doesn't really matter which method you use, because the result will be the same.

 

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My Chromecast has done all of that for years.

Apple AppleSupport IPad Pro M2 does not support Ultrawide resolutions like a 5120x2160. Sitting on a Thunderbolt 4 LG ultrawide and cannot get proper 5K highres (16.2 iPadOS)

Unfortunately I not have any of them... ...so I can't learn this.

What for?!

The lack of Linux being mentioned in your article is starting to become expected behaviour. Deskscreen exists on Linux to do pretty much the same thing. tomshardware reported on it in 2021:

Are there people that don’t do this?

Why though? If you want a second screen you can buy a 22 inch one for as little as 70 euro. Why would you want to clown around with a second screen thats too small to be productive?

Seriously it is 2022. Who doesn’t know how to do this.

Welcome to 2008

That's impressive 😍

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