{"id":18733,"date":"2017-08-24T14:49:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T18:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18733"},"modified":"2017-08-29T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T13:32:15","slug":"external-macbook-pro-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/24\/external-macbook-pro-displays\/","title":{"rendered":"Portable External MacBook Pro Displays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luna Display<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Luna Display seamlessly extends your Mac desktop to your iPad, creating a wireless second monitor with stunning image quality. Available for Mini DisplayPort or USB-C, Luna sets up in seconds and instantly works with your existing Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Luna Display acts as a complete extension to your Mac, allowing you to use it directly from your iPad with full support for external keyboards, Apple Pencil, and touch interactions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’ve had two displays on my development machines since the 1990’s. By now, it’s fully ingrained in my habits and makes for a very efficient workflow. So much so that it’s the capability I miss the most when I travel, especially when I have an iPad with a kick-ass display. It’s not hyperbole to say that this new product, called Luna Display<\/a>, solves this problem completely.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

When you put the Luna Display app into the background with the iPad’s home button, the display disappears from the Mac after a few minutes. All iOS apps have a limited time in the background and Luna Display is no different.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

It looks cool to have a wireless connection, with only a little dongle plugged into the Mac. But it can also work with a USB cable, which I expect is much more reliable.<\/p>\n\n

That said, this is not particularly helpful for me because I have an iPad mini. I wanted a larger, portable external display<\/a> for my MacBook Pro, so a few months ago I got an AOC e1759Fwu<\/a>. It’s a 17-inch display with a fold-out stand that easily fits in my laptop backpack. It connects via a USB cable (no separate power connector) and, once you install the kernel extension<\/a>, the Mac sees it as a regular external display (though Night Shift is not supported). It supports both portrait and landscape modes. I prefer the portrait, which at 900 × 1,600 pixels (it’s not Retina) is the same height as a 30-inch display.<\/p>\n

The AOC’s USB 3 connection is a big improvement over the square-SCSI SuperMac adapter that I once used to connect a color display to my monochrome PowerBook, but it does feel laggy compared with a regular display connector. The picture quality isn’t great, either: a bit fuzzy, uneven brightness, and so-so color. But it succeeds at giving me more screen space when traveling. The extra vertical pixels are especially welcome when replying to customer e-mails in FogBugz. The main downsides are that it’s an extra step to unpack it and repack it and that some hotels don’t really have enough table\/desk space to set it up. It would be better if Apple sold a MacBook Pro with a larger internal display.<\/p>\n\n

Previously: Duet Display<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Luna Display: Luna Display seamlessly extends your Mac desktop to your iPad, creating a wireless second monitor with stunning image quality. Available for Mini DisplayPort or USB-C, Luna sets up in seconds and instantly works with your existing Wi-Fi. […] Luna Display acts as a complete extension to your Mac, allowing you to use it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1562,838,772,145,828,123,1563,30,100,1381,1330,175,1154],"class_list":["post-18733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-aoc-usb-display","tag-display","tag-ios-multitasking","tag-ipad","tag-kernel-extensions","tag-kickstarter","tag-luna-display","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-12","tag-night-shift","tag-usb","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18751,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18733\/revisions\/18751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}