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AppleInsider - Extend your Mac display to another Mac with Luna Display 4.0 - xSicKxBot - 10-22-2019
Extend your Mac display to another Mac with Luna Display 4.0
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<p class="gray small byline"> By <a href="https://appleinsider.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f186989d9d98909cdf96909d9d9096999483b19c9092df929e9c">William Gallagher</a> <br /><span class="gray">Thursday, October 17, 2019, 10:00 am PT (01:00 pm ET)</span> </p>
<p> <span><span class="article-leader">You can now extend or mirror your main Mac’s screen onto a second Mac as easily as you can with Sidecar and an iPad with Luna Display 4.0.<br /></span></p>
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<div class="article-img"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/extend-your-mac-display-to-another-mac-with-luna-display-4-0.jpg" alt="Extending a single desktop across an iMac and a MacBook Pro. (Photo: Luna Display.)" height="368" class="lazy" data-original="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/extend-your-mac-display-to-another-mac-with-luna-display-4-0-1.jpg"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/extend-your-mac-display-to-another-mac-with-luna-display-4-0-1.jpg"></div>
<p><span class="minor2 small gray">Extending a single desktop across an iMac and a MacBook Pro. (Photo: Luna Display.)</span></div>
<p>Before <a href="https://appleinsider.com/topic/Apple">Apple</a> introduced <a href="https://appleinsider.com/topic/Sidecar">Sidecar</a> in macOS <a href="https://appleinsider.com/topic/Catalina">Catalina</a>, firms including <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/10/hands-on-luna-display-extends-your-macs-display-to-the-ipad-wirelessly">Luna Display</a> provided the same ability to use an <a href="https://appleinsider.com/topic/iPad">iPad</a> as a second display. Now the latest version of Luna Display 4.0 lets you do the same thing, but with either an iPad or a spare <a href="https://appleinsider.com/topic/Mac">Mac</a>. </p>
<p>The company calls it Mac-to-Mac-Mode and says that the aim is to make the most out of multiple Apple devices at once. </p>
<p>“Apple has always marketed its products to be standalone, never intended to be used at the same time.” says the firm <a href="https://lunadisplay.com/pages/meet-mac-to-mac-mode">in a statement</a>. “While you can connect devices through AirDrop, or pick up where you left off in Safari and the Messages app, the idea remains the same: it is all about picking up one product, and setting the other down.”</p>
<p>“Where we differ from Apple is that, instead of limiting ourselves to using each product individually, we see the potential that comes from a combination of products that is greater than the sum of its parts,” it continues.</p>
<p>Apple’s Sidecar requires macOS Catalina to work with an iPad, but is also limited to <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/03/apple-reveals-which-macs-will-run-macos-catalina">certain newer Macs</a>. Luna Display 4.0 brings the feature to older models, with the main Mac needing 2015’s macOS <a href="https://appleinsider.com/topic/El+Capitan">El Capitan</a> or later. </p>
<p>The secondary Mac, the one used as an extra display, can be running an even older OS, going back to 2012’s macOS <a href="https://appleinsider.com/topic/Mountain+Lion">Mountain Lion</a>.</p>
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<p>Luna Display is a combination of a hardware and software product. The <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/08/23/hands-on-astropads-luna-display-dongle-fakes-a-mac-display-transmits-to-ipad-via-wi-fi">hardware aspect is a dongle</a> that you plug into the main Mac, and comes in versions for either <a href="https://appleinsider.com/topic/USB-C">USB-C</a> or <a href="https://appleinsider.com/topic/Mini+DisplayPort">Mini DisplayPort</a>. </p>
<p>The software element is an app that must be run on both machines. Luna Display works only wirelessly, and the two devices must be on the same <a href="https://appleinsider.com/topic/Wi-Fi">Wi-Fi</a> network.</p>
<p>Luna Display <a href="https://lunadisplay.com/pages/meet-mac-to-mac-mode">costs $69 direct from the developer</a>, and there is a launch discount of 25%.</p>
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