• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  imac as monitor for Mac Pro through network.. (screen sharing, ichat, or remote desktop etc) without lag (minimal lag?)

  Posted by Dave Chavinsky on August 1, 2011 at 8:29 pm

  I have been using an imac and recently got an older Mac Pro that I would now like to use because its faster (has 4 cores and 6gb of ram, rather than 2 cores and 4gb of ram). Both are running 10.6.8

  I got the cords to connect the imac directly based on an article from apple below (mini display on imac / dvi on Mac Pro:
  https://support.apple.com/kb/ht3924

  but “target display” doesn’t work. Apple made an announcement that (which i can’t find anymore..) that you could only use target display through thunderbolt, which is why mini display do dvi didn’t work. However it was in reference to 2008 imacs I think and mine is mid-2010.

  Anyways, I’m thinking if I have my macpro hooked up to the internet, and my imac hooked up to the internet, can I use my MacPro through my imac as.. a remote desktop or something? Something like screen sharing, ichat, remote desktop.

  The purpose is to use a faster MacPro for Final Cut Studio, so if there’s going to be a huge amount of lag, it might defeat the purpose.

  any ideas?

  thanks

  Dave Chavinsky replied 15 years, 2 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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