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Mac/PC hybrid solution?
I just had a crazy idea. I am a PC user by birth, but my job requires me to use a Mac so I am facing a crisis. I am looking into buying a Mac just so I can run the software I would need for work (mostly Adobe, Omnigraffle, etc) but I also need a PC to coordinate with classmates in a school that is all PC-based. I know I could buy the same software for Windows but I feel like I would be caught in a never-ending compatibility struggle. Is it possible to hook up a Mac Mini to my HP laptop and just use the laptop as a monitor? This way, I could own a Mac for relatively cheap but not have to carry around ANOTHER laptop?
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- 1 decade agoFavourite answer
No, you can't normally hook an external computer to a laptop and use it's monitor.
You could set up some remote access to the Mac from the laptop. This would require initially having a keyboard/mouse/monitor on the Mac to set it up and configure remote desktop software. After that, use the remote access control via network to see the Mac's display on your laptop screen and control it from the laptops keyboard/mouse.
I don't know offhand of any particular software that will do this - Tight VNC might.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
you could run OSX by utilising installation Linux BSD and working OSX interior of that for the period of your computing gadget. there will be some tweaking necessary. the component nevertheless is that lots of CPU power is getting used up by utilising the OS layers. XP>BSD>OSX. in simple terms run BSD with the OSX computing gadget. Or run digital gadget application for ANY OS on ANY CPU!
