Comments on: Here’s How to Turn Your iPad Into a Second Laptop Screen https://toomanyadapters.com/how-to-turn-ipad-second-laptop-screen/ Tech gear, gadgets, reviews, and advice Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Ian https://toomanyadapters.com/how-to-turn-ipad-second-laptop-screen/#comment-644596 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=19391#comment-644596 1st Splashtop xdisplay is no longer free
2nd the Mac agent will totally screwup you system if your using Sierra.
I installed the mac agent required to use my iPad as a display. As indicated in the instructions it then demanded a restart. On restart I was unable to log back into my system. It appears to have turned on every piece of assistive technology on the mac. All of a sudden the Mac is talking to me as well as giving me scrolling subtitles on screen but it won’t accept my password. I’m not out of the woods yet but am doing a restore from a relatively recent backup.
Not exactly what I want to be doing in South America!

]]> By: Chris Andrews https://toomanyadapters.com/how-to-turn-ipad-second-laptop-screen/#comment-644406 https://toomanyadapters.com/?p=19391#comment-644406 Hi Patricia,

I notice that you say here “…or trying to fit a monitor in your backpack.” and
I’m sure that you’re being facetious when you say it, and yet that’s just what I’m doing at the moment as I travel!

Admittedly, at the moment I’m mostly travelling by car, but I have travelled by air with it in my backpack and it’s quite practical. It’s not what every traveller would want to do, and I wouldn’t do it when I’m doing a lot of day-to-day travel especially by air and on foot; but at the moment, it’s so nice to have that big monitor to work on.

If you would like to know more about the practicalities of carting a monitor around as you travel you can read about it on my travel blog. (Click on my name, above, to go there.)

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