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Or repurpose any nearby Mac or Windows PC to give yourself more screen real estate for your main Mac.

Air Display connects easily, allowing you to extend or mirror up to four screens at once to create unique and powerful presentations or to improve your creative workflow in whatever way you choose.

Try it with a calculator app, painting tool, or music control surface.

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Fortunately, you can drastically improve your productivity by hooking up an external monitor to your workstation, usually by using one display as a reference and doing your actual work in the other.

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Less wholesomely, you could work in one and watch a movie in anotherbut I didnt say that.) An HDMI-compatible TV should do the trick if you dont have an extra monitor sitting around, but the pixel density and refresh rates likely wont be as satisfying.

Its usually a lot easier to hook up an external monitor to a PC rather than a Mac, as you can usually just use any ol HDMI cable.

Youre almost certainly going to need some kind of a dongle with a contemporary Mac.

On the other hand, the Apple ecosystem now lets you easily use newer iPads as secondary monitors within seconds, so it does bring clear advantages.

And if you just want a specialized cable for a USB-C compatible MacBook, we recommend Apples own 39 USB-CThunderbolt 3 cable if you have a Thunderbolt 3-compatible monitor.

If you have a standard HDMI-compatible monitor, we recommend this highly rated six-foot 17 USB-CThunderbolt 3 to HDMI cable from Uni.

As for dongleswhile not exhaustive, the options below should help with most contemporary USB-CThunderbolt 3 Macs.

Lets start with Apples own options for HDMI and VGA, which are outrageously expensive for what youre getting, as you might expect.

Its what I personally use for the 2010 Cinema Display that I keep hooked up to my 2017 15-inch MacBook Pro, and it has served me well for two years.

Once youve managed to hook up your second display, youll need to arrange the two displays so you can intuitively drag windows and files from one display to the other.

Go to Settings in your Mac, then click Displays and then Arrangement.

If everything is set up properly, you should see two blue rectangles representing the displays, with the host Mac showing a white bar across the top.

So if you put your secondary monitor above your MacBook (as I have in the photo above), make sure you orient the second monitors blue rectangle so its on top of the blue rectangle representing the MacBook.

After that, you may want to move your macOS dock to the secondary screen if youll be looking at it more often.

To do this, move your mouse pointer up to the desktop of the secondary monitor and click anywhere.

Then makes two swift downward strokes along the bottom of the display where you would like for the dock to appear.

The dock should then switch overalthough keep in mind that it may take some practice.

If you have your monitors set up the way I do, make sure you make these downward strokes in a corner of the display that doesnt overlap with the main MacBook display.

Just keep in mind, of course, that youll be working with a smaller screen.

There is a bonus, though: If youve already set up a proper secondary monitor, this setup lets you use your iPad as a third display.

More specifically, youll need at least a 5th-generation iPad, an iPad Air 2, and iPad mini 4, or any iPad Pro.

Youll also need a MacBook or MacBook Pro that was made in 2016 or later, a 2015 27-inch iMac 5K, or any 2016 iMac or later (including the Pro), a 2018 Mac mini, or the 2011 or 2019 Mac Pros.

Now that thats out of the way, make sure your iPad is turned on and near your Mac.

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