can a laptop be used as a portable monitor for a mac mini

[chris7777]

I know this is a little strange but my business partner wants to see if he can get a mac mini, and hook it up through his pc laptop, using it as the monitor.

Is this sort of thing even possible?

He mentioned using a laptop docking station, but I just don't know if its possible

We are working on an animation, and trying to be as cheap as possible, about it.

 

[GGJstudios]

not possible

 

[elfxmilhouse]

the only solution i know of is vnc
wont be good for animation since the refresh rate wont be ideal.

but i remember a program that allowed a "second" display to be added over the network using a driver. it was windows only unfortunately (both client and server side). I'd imagine the performance to be similar to the vnc solution.

 

[flopticalcube]

You could use something like a VNC client but the results won't be great, particularly for something like animation. Does the laptop have any video input options?

 

[chris7777]

You could use something like a VNC client but the results won't be great, particularly for something like animation. Does the laptop have any video input options?

I'll have to look into vnc., but IU didn't much think it would either, I just wanted to make sure instead of saying no and be wrong about it.