{"id":35313,"date":"2022-03-17T16:55:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35313"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:55:41","slug":"luna-display-to-use-an-old-imac-5k-as-a-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/17\/luna-display-to-use-an-old-imac-5k-as-a-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Luna Display to Use an Old iMac 5K As a Display"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The recent disappearance of the 27-inch iMac with 5K Retina display from Apple’s product line has thrown a spotlight on the core design tradeoff with an all-in-one Mac: you can’t separate the Mac from the monitor when it comes time to upgrade (see “Which Mac Will Replace the 27-iMac for You?<\/a>,” 12 March 2022). But what if you could somehow connect the old Mac in such a way as to make it look like a display to a new Mac? That’s the concept behind Astropad’s $134.95 Luna Display<\/a>.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

To make a long story short, Luna Display does turn my older 27-inch iMac into a secondary 5K Retina display for my 2020 27-inch iMac—with that wonderfully crisp Retina text—but it comes with quite a few tradeoffs. I don’t know if I could live with them because Luna Display exacerbates a problem related to my particular 2020 27-inch iMac that causes multiple kernel panics per day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n