I have connected the M1 Mcmini to the Thunderbolt port on the iMac with a USB 4/Thunderbolt cable. How do I see the Mini on the iMac?
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Original Title: M1 Macmini & 2017 iMac
iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 13.7
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The 2017 iMac is an all-in-one computer.
It does not have external video input or support being use as a display for another computer.
FWIW you can use most any after-market External Display or HDMI TV with a Mac mini.
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The 2017 iMac is an all-in-one computer.
It does not have external video input or support being use as a display for another computer.
FWIW you can use most any after-market External Display or HDMI TV with a Mac mini.
Target Display Mode went away when the 27" 5K Retina iMac came out in Late 2014. Your 2017 iMac doesn't have it. Apple later added restrictions such that no current Mac supports using any iMac as a Target Display.
They can talk to each other over that Thunderbolt connection.
I believe that you could set them up in Thunderbolt Bridge mode – so that the Thunderbolt connection acts in a similar way to an Ethernet network link. Once that network connection was configured, you could configure File Sharing or Screen Sharing. Note that Screen Sharing is NOT a way of allowing you use that iMac as a substitute for a real monitor.
You could also boot up one of the machines in Target Disk Mode or the equivalent. Then that machine would act as an external disk for the other. I don't see this as something one would want to do long-term – but there might be occasions where it would be handy.
Finally, if you were setting up the newer Mac from scratch, I believe that Migration Assistant could pull stuff from the old Mac over a Thunderbolt link.
But as for the iMac acting as a Target Display – nope. That ship sailed in Late 2014.
..So Apple makes 2 machines 3 years apart......and they can't talk to each other.......naver expected that from Apple
How did you research this? Who told you that Target Display Mode would work? The amount of gross misinformation about TDM on the web that started with the work-from-home needs of COVID would sink a supertanker.
Apple covers it. The very restrictive hardware and system software requirements under which the now-defunct TDM once operated are clearly laid out in this Apple article:
Use your iMac as a display with target display mode - Apple Support
I see nothing ambiguous there.
Apple began the deprecation of TDM over ten years ago, and threw the final shovel of dirt in its face over five years ago.
That option was "taken away" years ago.
Target Display Mode was always problematic at best and only worked with a limited subset of Macs on both the host and client side.
You don't. The iMac can not be used as a monitor for the Mac mini.
Of course they can talk to each other. You can NOT use one of them as a monitor for the other.
If that's not what you meant, then you need to clarify what you're trying to accomplish.
They can talk to each other via File Sharing and Screen Sharing.
Set up file sharing on Mac - Apple Support
Share the screen of another Mac - Apple Support
However you must first connect an external display to the Mac mini and set it up.
Then you can enable and setup Sharing between the two Mac's.
Yes, I thought it would be a simple job of connecting the Macmini to the iMac.and presto.........but Apple have taken that option away it seems.......am using a small Tv via HDMI........do the job till I think off something else. You's have saved me a lot of time fiddling around with various cables......thanks....
So Apple makes 2 machines 3 years apart......and they can't talk to each other.......naver expected that from Apple
Me too, but I liked McCoy's expression.
How to use iMac as a monitor for my Mac mini?
