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cks1885

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Dec 9, 2012
4
0
Hi all,

so alot of different opinions is out there. My you can verify it for me?

Have a lenovo X230 "work pc" with a mini display port output. I need to hook it up to a monitor when im working in my "home office".

I would really like to grab one of the new imac's but i need to be sure if i can use the monitor.

I saw this link:
http://techtips.salon.com/use-imac-pc-monitor-1648.html

Can someone confirm that this can be done?

Thanks alot
 

drambuie

macrumors 6502a
Feb 16, 2010
751
1
The only iMac this has a possibility of working with is the 2010 27" iMac. The 2011 and 2012 iMacs have Thunderbolt inputs only. Mini displayport connections won't work. There are some PC motherboards with built-in Thunderbolt controller connections, but so far, according to discussions in this forum, it appears that the iMac's Thunderbolt target display mode works with output from Macs only.
 
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