Available now, Windows version coming soon. Follow the instructions on your iPad screen to connect. 6 Launch both the Luna Mac app and the Luna iPad app. If Wi-Fi is not available or unstable, you can connect your devices using a USB cable. 5 Connect the iPad to the same Wi-Fi network as the computer.
Plus, if you have you Mac laptop with you, you probably have the iPad too, and you don't even have to pack a cable. Download the free Luna Display iPad app on your iPad. You wouldn't want to use this for anything motion-intensive, but as a place to keep your Twitter and IM clients, or even as an extra screen for something like Photoshop Lightroom, it is ideal. If you quit the app to do something else, the Mac resets back to a single screen, but if you get push-notifications they pop up on the iPad as normal, and you can tap to dismiss as normal. Touching is a little freaky, as multi-touch gestures don't work. The touch screen works, although you can mouse into the space as well. Better, in fact, as the iPad has a pretty high-resolution screen. macOS Monterey is available now in beta for developers. Once it is settled, though, after a second or so, the image is as clear as you'd expect. AirPlay to Mac works with a 2018 or later MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, a 2019 or later iMac or Mac Pro, an iMac Pro, and the 2020 Mac mini. Watching videos on the iPad screen is choppy, and if you drag a window across it then there is a delay and the image pixellates somewhat. But if you just need to quickly fix something, that could be enough.Because this works over the air (both machines need to be on the same Wi-Fi network), there is some lag. This isn’t the ideal setup if you plan to use your Mac Mini for multiple hours per day. The Luna adapter was first released on Kickstarter and is now available for $80. It’ll feel like you’re running macOS on an iPad. If your Mac Mini is connected to a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, you’ll see your actions on the screen.Īnd because Luna’s dongle works over Wi-Fi, you can even control your Mac Mini from your couch. After plugging the dongle into a Thunderbolt 3 port, you can launch the Luna app on your iPad and see what’s happening on your Mac.
And, of course, you can also enable SSH access to control it using the command line or even an SSH app on your phone.īut it also works as expected with the Luna Display. You can control it using screen sharing or a VNC client. In that case, there’s no display connected to your Mac Mini. It sits below your TV, near your router or in a closet. Many Mac Mini users tend to use the Mac Mini as a headless server. But the team behind the device tried a fun experiment.
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