Can you use a Mac Pro "through" a MBP?

[nmaxcom]

I busted my leg and while it heals, I can't really work sitting. So for a few weeks, I'm only comfortable with my MBP.

Obviously, my MBP doesn't have the horsepower of my Mac Pro, which I'm missing. I've seen articles about using the laptop as a screen, but I wonder if there's a possibility of connecting the Mac Pro (just the tower) to my MBP and work with MBP's screen, keyboard, and touchpad.

I'm afraid I'm reaching, but if anyone knows about that, it's going to be some of you!

 

[applesed]

Really don’t think so, but you could use screen share, to do a remote desktop into your Mac Pro.

 

[matram]

I guess you could use "Apple Remote Desktop" (see App Store) to open a remote window to your Mac Pro. However that solution will costs you money.

I have plenty of experience with Remote Desktop to windows world. where it works well, but unfortunately no experience to do a remote session to a Mac.

 

[ZMacintosh]

depends, what kind of work are you trying to do?

 

[applesed]

I guess you could use "Apple Remote Desktop" (see App Store) to open a remote window to your Mac Pro. However that solution will costs you money.

I have plenty of experience with Remote Desktop to windows world. where it works well, but unfortunately no experience to do a remote session to a Mac.

there’s something built in. Look under Sharing.

 

[chrono1081]

I guess you could use "Apple Remote Desktop" (see App Store) to open a remote window to your Mac Pro. However that solution will costs you money.

I have plenty of experience with Remote Desktop to windows world. where it works well, but unfortunately no experience to do a remote session to a Mac.

You don’t need to buy Remote Desktop. Remote Desktop is for remote administration of a bunch of Macs. You can screen share with your own Mac for free.

 

[cerberusss]

When you say you can't work sitting, what do you do now? Do you work lying down? Or do you stand?

Can't you work with a wireless keyboard/trackpad, plus some sort of monitor arm, or standing desk?

 

[nmaxcom]

Really don’t think so, but you could use screen share, to do a remote desktop into your Mac Pro.

Yeah, that's actually what I've been doing with Jump Desktop (best latency of all I've tried).. but you know, not the same experience.

depends, what kind of work are you trying to do?

Well, tons of Chrome obviously, nothing fancy there. Full-stack devving. On the heavy side I'm working with a genetic algorithm which needs all the CPU it can get and rendering some shooting (although this last thing I've found you can "push" the render job to another machine with Adobe as a kind of a cloud render)

When you say you can't work sitting, what do you do now? Do you work lying down? Or do you stand?

Can't you work with a wireless keyboard/trackpad, plus some sort of monitor arm, or standing desk?

I'm laying in my bed, best sit on the house!

So.. yeah, I was afraid my only solution would be to have on me an external keyboard, mouse or touchpad and somehow mount a screen here.

I had to ask! Thank you, everybody.