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points by wolvoleo 2 days ago | 0 comments
The older imacs at least had target display mode. That was pretty amazing so you could say least use it at a screen after it's useful life as a computer. Unfortunately they dropped it years ago. It wasn't very efficient on power and you had to use a key combo, I don't think you could make it boot straight into it every time. But at least it was there.
[–] kccqzy 1 day ago
Target display mode couldn’t be supported since the 2014 iMac because the DisplayPort standard didn’t have enough bandwidth so the display was driven by two DP signals (tiling).
[–] wolvoleo 1 day ago
Yes for a year or two but then it was possible again. But they never reintroduced it.
[–] 0xWTF 2 days ago
I really loved target display mode. It made me so happy
[–] jeffhwang 2 days ago
agreed! I am just one of several people in my circle who would have loved to keep using our 27" Intel iMacs as target mode displays. Within the Apple ecosystem, once the old 27" iMacs were discontinued there was no simple (again within there Apple ecosystem) inexpensive way of having displays larger than 24".