Old ibook as second monitor?

does anyone know how i could take an old ibook G4 and use it as a second display for my macbook pro? i'm working with final cut and photoshop and would like to have a second display...

Hi,
The following may be of interest:
http://www.screenrecycler.com/home.html
However, for Photoshop/Final Cut work I would suggest that, by far, your best option would be to invest in a second monitor.
Kryten

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As a point of note, a commercial program, MaxiVista allows exactly what you are looking for under Microsoft Windows.
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If it won't turn on then the monitor is dead (power supply?, video circuits?). Not worth repairing.
If you have a new iMac then it has thunderbolt. So exactly what is that monitor you are trying to connect? For TB you can connect a mini-displayport monitor. Probably (not 100% sure with TB) can use dvi or vga too if you have the appropriate adapter.

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I want to use my old iMac G3 as second monitor to my MacBook Pro, how?
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You can't really do it in any normal way; that is, using the MacBook's video output port.
You can use this program
http://www.screenrecycler.com/home.html
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How well this works depends on your iMac's speed, what Mac OS version it runs, and the speed of the network connection. If you connect the two directly with an Ethernet cable (Cat-5 or better), the network speed should be decently fast (at 100Base-T). If your iMac G3 has Tiger (10.4), you can use this program as the VNC client
http://www.jinx.de/JollysFastVNC.html
(there are free VNC clients for 10.3 and earlier)
However, this solution will never be as fast (in terms of screen refresh rate) as a real display using a real video connection. But you can try it at no cost, to see if it meets your needs.

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http://www.macworld.com/article/39969/2004/10/imacscreenspanning.html
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Hi everyone, first..sorry in advance if this is in the wrong place but I felt like this covered two topics.
So I have an old ibook g4 thats just collecting dust in my closet and I thought to myself "why not put it to use" so my question is this; can I use it as an external drive and a second screen at the same time?
I already know that if I plug in a firewire cable to both my macbook and ibook and boot it hold (i dont remember what key) it will boot as an external drive and i found this; http://www.screenrecycler.com/ScreenRecycler.html
which looks like it will make my ibook into a second monitor, but how can i do those both at the same time.
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There is a possibility that all you need to do is go into the display properties of the HP and have it look for the adapter.
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