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ardchoille50

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I sit here with my Mac mini (late 2012) using a Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard, both of which are connected via Bluetooth. Is it possible to have a monitor that connects using that same technology? Is Bluetooth able to handle the amount of data needed for a monitor to accomplish its task?

This may be a silly question, but I know next to nothing about Bluetooth.
 
I sit here with my Mac mini (late 2012) using a Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard, both of which are connected via Bluetooth. Is it possible to have a monitor that connects using that same technology? Is Bluetooth able to handle the amount of data needed for a monitor to accomplish its task?

This may be a silly question, but I know next to nothing about Bluetooth.
Not currently. Much more data bandwidth would be required than BT can currently send. But one day for sure.
 
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For some idea of what it would be like, try screen sharing(or VNC) over a WiFi connection some time. 802.11g is 54mbit/s, which is about the same as that of Bluetooth 5(50) and twice that of Bluetooth 4(25).

Even over an N connection, you will likely find that VNC is laggy and can give you screen artifacts. At least for me, I use VNC for things like controlling headless servers or just avoiding walking upstairs to turn off a computer :) . I don't do them for any GPU-intensive tasks, and it would be miserable to use it that way.
 
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