PC Laptop main & Mac desktop screen as 2nd monitor...how? (1 Viewer)

[offdee]

Gonna be working from home more often so setup a nice new office space in my house.

Here's some details...

- Home computer setup is a desktop Mac mini connected to Mac monitor

- Work laptop that I will take home with me on work from home days is a PC (Lenovo ThinkPad)

I'd like to use my work PC laptop as main screen but be able to easily hook up to my Mac monitor to use as a 2nd monitor.  Is this possible and how?   Link to specific handshake cords to purchase would be excellent.

 

[belljr]

Does your laptop have a DisplayPort?

 

[offdee]

Does your laptop have a DisplayPort?

yep.  I hook up to a 2nd monitor at work with it (not a Mac monitor though)

 

[belljr]

Mac monitors use DisplayPort technology*

*unless something has changed

 

[Mr. Ected]

Could you us something like this switch?

 

[offdee]

Could you us something like this switch?

Looks like this just connects and projects what it's plugged into.  I want to connect to my pc laptop but use the Mac monitor as a second screen (so laptop and monitor show different things....but all controlled by laptop and mouse)

 

[belljr]

A MAC monitor uses DisplayPort technology.  If your Laptop already has a DisplayPort out then you don't need anything else.

 

[gmbacm]

Looks like this just connects and projects what it's plugged into.  I want to connect to my pc laptop but use the Mac monitor as a second screen (so laptop and monitor show different things....but all controlled by laptop and mouse)

This is just a setting on your laptop, not the screen. Just plug in with display port connection and choose extend display on your laptop display settings. 

 

[Mr. Ected]

Looks like this just connects and projects what it's plugged into.  I want to connect to my pc laptop but use the Mac monitor as a second screen (so laptop and monitor show different things....but all controlled by laptop and mouse)

This is just a setting on your laptop, not the screen. Just plug in with display port connection and choose extend display on your laptop display settings. 

Agree with gmbacm that the adjustment for the monitor is a setting on the laptop.

My suggestion was to make easy 'switch' between pc and laptop, so you didn't have to do much messing around. You would just leave the Mac plugged in and plug the laptop in as necessary, switching between the two.

 

[offdee]

Agree with gmbacm that the adjustment for the monitor is a setting on the laptop.

My suggestion was to make easy 'switch' between pc and laptop, so you didn't have to do much messing around. You would just leave the Mac plugged in and plug the laptop in as necessary, switching between the two.

ah gotcha, ok makes sense and the less screwing around the better. Appreciate it.