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Old PC Laptop as external monitor?
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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I posted this like 5 minutes ago but I got an error and it wasn showing up so I will post it again, sorry for double posting.
I am goign to be getting an LCD but not probably until the holidays. My aunt has an old PC laptop and I was wondering if I could use that as a temporary external monitor. Im guessing to do that I would need the laptop and a extra VGA cord in order to connect the laptop to the VGA/MiniDVI port on my lappy. Would that work?
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How are you going to input video for the PC laptop to display? It's VGA port is video out only. I've never seen a laptop with some sort of by-pass video connection to allow external video feeds to its screen.
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ditto what he said >> Kvasir
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Maxivista is using a network connection to send the video signal from a PC to a laptop. It's quality is quite poor on slow connections (obviously) and not great on 100mps connections. I haven't had opportunity to test it over a gigabit connection.
All moot, however, for you since they don't support Macs.
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In 8 years, I have never seen a site figure out how to feed video into the display of a dead (or running) laptop. Has anyone seen it done?
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Hi:
All you have to do is put a VNC client on the laptop, and a VNC server on your mac, both of which are available as free downloads via the web. Using this arrangement I access a mac mini from an old IBM Thinkpad 770. It is not the most elegant setup, and the video is a little sluggish, but it does work -- over a wifi (802.11b) network.
Try it. It may fill your needs.
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I might add that the free "Chicken of the VNC" server for the mac is what I use, and it is very easily configured.
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CotVNC is a VNC client. OS X (10.4, at least) has a VNC server (which is what you need) built in, it's the "Apple Remote Desktop" service in the Sharing pref pane. Then install a VNC client on the Windows machine, point it at the Mac, and you're all set.
But I'm not sure whether VNC can do monitor spanning, or just mirroring. (Probably just mirroring.)
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