![]() If your experiment is successful you can buy a license. Visit the SwitchResX website and download the 10-day trial version. Step 2: Download and install and SwitchResX ![]() So to start off, disconnect any external displays and keep just one. If you have a mix of Retina and non-Retina displays connected to your Mac, things get complicated and may not work. I suspect the instructions below might not work if the main display on your Mac is not a Retina one due to how macOS handles video, but I haven’t tested it. ![]() Jump Desktop Connect 6.0 running on the Macįor this tutorial you will need Jump Desktop on both the iPad and the Mac. PrerequisitesĢ019 MacBook Pro 16" running macOS Catalina 10.15.5 In the steps below I’ll show you how to set things up for the iPad. It allows you to add resolutions to the macOS system, that may or may not work. SwitchResX is a shareware application that’s been around since the early days of macOS (or Mac OS X as it was called back then). That list unfortunately does not include the slightly odd 10:7 aspect ratio 2388x1668 screen of iPad Pro 11". When I contacted Jump Desktop support, they informed me that even though the Jump Desktop Connect (the Fluid server, if you will) can change the resolution to match the one on the iPad, it’s limited to the resolutions available on the Mac. When connecting to my MacBook however, the result was always a blurry letterboxed mess, regardless of the protocol or settings used. The tool of choice for many iPad enthusiasts seems to be Jump Desktop, which supports VNC, RDP and their proprietary Fluid protocol.Ĭonnecting to a Windows machine using Jump Desktop’s RDP support yielded a crisp, Retina experience with perfect 1:1 pixel mapping from the Windows desktop to the iPad. My long-held vision for an ideal thin client could be described as a “Mac in the sky” - with the hardware I’m holding in my hand being nothing more than a portal to the Mac on my desk.Since the introduction of the Magic Keyboard, interest in using an iPad as a remote terminal for desktops is bigger than ever. And in recent years, I have been able to get closer to this dream. Though I do use laptops I'm very much in the desktop camp, partly because they feel like a true “home base”. (Apple’s mid-2000’s digital hub strategy really resonated with me. ![]() Their 2010’s strategy of “ demoting the Mac to ‘just another device’”, not so much.)Įven as our household has expanded to include multiple desktops, laptops, and iOS devices, I have still held on to the "home base" mentality of my desktop Mac. Over time I've even transformed my primary desktop (a Mac Pro) to a thin client of sorts, moving almost all of my data to a headless Mac Mini server with a Thunderbolt 3-attached RAID. This Mini’s sole purpose is to be my “Mac in the sky”. And it works great! I can jump on any device in the house, access the Mini, and have everything I need. How I access the Mini depends on what I'm doing. Just browsing files? Mounting a few SMB shares works fine (though Apple's SMB stack is atrocious - perhaps a rant for another time). Watching some home videos? Plex does the job. But anything more than that, and we enter the realm of screen sharing. Ideally through an iPad.īut whether at home or on the road, on a laptop, an iPad, or even an iPhone, there are lots of options for sharing a computer's screen. However the viability of each is heavily dependent on the use case.
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