Mac Mini's and Labtops

[Dru22]

If I had a mac mini, could I use my IBM laptop screen as a moniter by plugging my mac mini into it?

 

[Rip the Jacker]

*laptops

 

[Baked]

Right... let me know when you can find a laptop w/ video in.

 

[Dru22]

What do you mean by just laptops? I want to use the laptop as a monitor and hook the mini up to it.

 

[Dru22]

So they don't make anything to be able to do this?

 

[imported_MrBlack]

I don't think your laptop w/vid in...so probably not.

 

[compusaguy]

this is really "ghetto" - can't you get a real computer? don't half-ass it. you'll be miserable in the long run.

 

[JBT]

no you can't do it.

 

[thirdlegstump]

no.....

 

[inspiron8200guy]

Not unless you want to open up your laptop, find the pinouts for the display cable and solder a DVI connector on it. Otherwise no

 

[0roo0roo]

ugh.. laptops have awful proprietary interfaces. the soldering and interface chipset stuff u'd have to buy would approach the cost of a lcd monitor. its not worth bothering with. laptops can be slowish 2nd monitors with software called maxivista, but thats like a pc anywhere thing...sorta slow. mac has some pc remote desktop control software i think. let u control the laptop, but not gonna be any good as primary display.

 

[0roo0roo]

The curse of the bare LCD

I recently purchased a new Sharp LCD panel, model LM10V335 [for which there's a PDF format datasheet here]. It was a spur of the moment purchase for $10 (so if it ends up being worthless, at least it wasn't EXPENSIVELY worthless). I believe it is supposed to be used for a laptop. Now I'm wondering if I can actually use it. Is there any way to get information to this panel? Say, by RCA or S-Video, or maybe even a standard monitor connection?

Kenneth

Answer:
It's possible to buy controller widgets that accept some common video input or other and can drive an LCD panel - see here for a selection, although I suspect none of those ones will work with your screen. These gadgets aren't cheap, and neither are they plug-and-go solutions - you're looking at at least $US200, plus power supply, plus case, plus time. If there's a cheap source of pre-made LCD driver boards, I don't know where it is.

For most people's purposes, all a bare panel like the one you bought is good for is replacing a busted laptop screen.
http://www.dansdata.com/danletters033.htm

interface selection link http://earthlcd.com/controllers.htm

 

[vegetation]

Terminal services will do the job over a network connection if you intentionally want the unit headless and just want to administer things every now and then. But for a full display unit, no.

 

[hopejr]

Terminal Services doesn't run on OS X. You'd want to use VNC if that was the case. But I don't think that's the point of this.