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Personally, Iâd save myself the headache and just buy/requisition/pilfer another monitor. There are Thunderbolt to dvi/hdmi/displayport/vga adapters available typically for less than $20.
Have you looked at parallels coherence view yet? It runs the Windows stuff as if it were running natively on the Mac desktop. I find it very useful when dealing with something like Visio (for which there is no Mac version).
The Visio icon appears in my office launcher panel with a little parallels icon super imposed. When I click the icon, it fires up the vm and starts Visio but not in a separate window â Visio behaves as if itâs any other app open on my desktop. There were some pitfalls when I first started like Widows VM default app preferences overriding the mac defaults, i.e., vm starting and open photoshop even though I had transferred my CC license to the mac and had a native version of Photoshop installed, but nothing that wasnât easily corrected.
Thanks!
Greg
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I've got the latest MacBook Pro, which has only Thunderbolt 3 ports.
And yes, no KVM use will be needed after I get rid of my Dell laptop.
But what I was hoping to do was use that Dell laptop screen as an external
monitor for my MacBook. But I doubt that's possible because the Dell laptop
likely has only output video, not any video input to use the laptop's screen
to show a different computer's video out.
Plus, one can get external monitors really cheap these days, so that's
likely the route I'll go. I don't need a big monitor, just a small one for
showing the windows I like to keep always open (such as Slack and Google
Hangouts - yes, I work all day with people on both systems) but not on my
primary/center monitor.
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