can we use iMac's monitor as external monitor?

edrifkin · Jun 7, 2006

Hi,

I have a iMac intel and I was wondering if I can user iMac's monitor as external monitor for another desktop machine. Is this possible?

eva01 · Jun 7, 2006

ah this is only posted about once a month

and no you can't

pedrok · Jul 24, 2008

Yes you can

eva01 said:
ah this is only posted about once a month

and no you can't

Now you can.

You need to use a VNC session over a network. A nifty utility called Screen Recycler does that in conjunction with a VNC client like JollysFastVNC.

http://www.screenrecycler.com/home.html

Their video is impressive (but they used a direct ethernet connection, not a LAN). Anyway, you can apparently try it for free.

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