If your monitors does not support HDMI, then you can always get the HDMI-to-DVI cables. Next, you’ll need 3 sets of high quality HDMI cables and a HDMI splitter box (like the one pictured below). Generic ones will cost much less around $8 USD. Well, the only way to do this is to use a mini-DisplayPort to HDMI converter/dongle, which Apples sells for around $35.00 USD. So how do you get HDMI output on the Macbook Air. It only has one mini-DisplayPort or on the newer Macbook Air, oneThunderbolt connector. Now you’re thinking the Macbook Air doesn’t have HDMI output … and you are correct.
#HDMI FOR MAC BOOK FREE#
It even works with the lid closed (thanks to the FREE NoSleep app).
#HDMI FOR MAC BOOK HOW TO#
It took me a while to figure this out … but finally I have a workable solution! In this article we will show you how to setup dual display for your Macbook Air via HDMI ( duplicate/clone screen only). There are two options … spend over $200 USD for a Matrox DualHead2Go or similar, which apparently has some incompatibility issues with the Macbook Air or around the same price … go for a bulky VGA splitter box, which again isn’t really what I wanted. The guys at the Apple stores says it can’t be done … while I went to all the hardware stores to look for a mini-DisplayPort splitter … it doesn’t exist. Got an old iMac? You can use it as a secondary monitor for your Mac with Apple’s Target Display Mode-but the host Mac needs to be pretty old as well.I’ve been looking to share my screen from my Macbook Air on two monitors (duplicate/clone) … and there was not many options available. For more information on how to set up Sidecar, check out our dedicated how-to. It should immediately start working, and you don’t even need to unlock the iPad.
Find the iPad you want to use as a secondary monitor from the resulting drop-down menu and select it. On your Mac, click the AirPlay button on your Mac’s menu bar, which looks like a rectangle with a solid triangle pointing upward from the bottom. Now that that’s out of the way, make sure your iPad is turned on and near your Mac.
#HDMI FOR MAC BOOK PRO#
You’ll also need a MacBook or MacBook Pro that was made in 2016 or later, a 2015 27-inch iMac 5K, or any 2016 iMac or later (including the Pro), a 2018 Mac mini, or the 2011 or 2019 Mac Pros. More specifically, you’ll need at least a 5th-generation iPad, an iPad Air 2, and iPad mini 4, or any iPad Pro. Otherwise, your mouse pointer will simply go down to the bottom screen.)įirst, make sure the Mac is running at least macOS Catalina and your iPad is running at least iOS 13. (If you have your monitors set up the way I do, make sure you make these downward strokes in a corner of the display that doesn’t overlap with the main MacBook display. The dock should then switch over-although keep in mind that it may take some practice.
Then makes two swift downward strokes along the bottom of the display where you would like for the dock to appear. To do this, move your mouse pointer up to the desktop of the secondary monitor and click anywhere.
So if you put your secondary monitor above your MacBook (as I have in the photo above), make sure you orient the second monitor’s blue rectangle so it’s on top of the blue rectangle representing the MacBook.Īfter that, you may want to move your macOS dock to the secondary screen if you’ll be looking at it more often. The transition is instant.įrom here, simply align the monitors the way they are in real life. Now that I’ve arranged the displays this way, I can move my mouse pointer to the second monitor just by moving it up. The second is connected via USB-C using this active cable - all USB-C HDMI 2.0 cables are active, since the USB-C alt mode for HDMI is HDMI 1.4b - cant do 60Hz without an active cable. One is connected via HDMI 2.0 port on mac mini, and I get 4K 60Hz from both displays.