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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I have an 27 inch iMac with Thunderbolt and I want to use my late 2009 white Macbook as a second display if possible. I bought a mini displayport cable with the hopes of using target display mode but it didn't work. Is there way to hook the 2 macs together to make this work?
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Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
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I tried to get the iMac to serve as the second display to the macbook but couldn't get that to work either. Do I need a thunderbolt cable even though the macbook only has mini display port?
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Exactly which imac do you have? If I understand the chart correctly if the source computer uses mini display port you can only use TDM on 2009-2010 imacs. 2011 and newer require input from a thunderbolt equipped source. Note that 5k imacs don't support TDM at all.
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Originally Posted by Chito 
Exactly which imac do you have? If I understand the chart correctly if the source computer uses mini display port you can only use TDM on 2009-2010 imacs. 2011 and newer require input from a thunderbolt equipped source. Note that 5k imacs don't support TDM at all.
This is correct. If the iMac has Thunderbolt (ie, it is from 2011 newer) it requires a Thunderbolt signal in.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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