THE IMAC MONITOR

HELLO ALL,
IS THERE A WAY TO TURN OFF THE IMAC MONITOR AND USE AN EXTERNAL MONITOR INSTEAD. I INITIALLY WANTED TO EXPAND THE DESKTOP, BUT FOUND OUT THAT I COULD ONLY MIRROR IT. SO, I AM EXPERIMENTING WITH THIS IDEA. IF ANYONE WOULD BE SO KIND AS TO GIVE GUIDANCE I WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATIVE.

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Some iMac G4s can be hacked to extend rather than mirror display. It could permeanently damage your iMac if it goes wrong - i.e. power fails mid install.
There are also iMac G4s out there with their screens removed. So these things are possible.
Google for 'Screen Spanning Doctor' and 'The Mac Orb'
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The only iMac with built-in video input is the new 27-inch iMac, and that currently only works with DisplayPort input. All other iMacs only have video output, not input.
You can add video input through a USB interface device. Because a Wii is designed to work with a TV, you may be able to use a device that makes Macs act like a TV/DVR. This is one example
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ElGato/10020630R/
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That one as well will dim both displays.
I have played around with this off and on for over a year now. The best that I have come up with is in this [Apple Discussion Thread|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5587803#5587803]
Sense then I have also found a way to dim the menu bar, but it was a little buggy to use all the time called [MenuShade|http://macapper.com/2007/10/17/menushade-dim-your-menu-bar>
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Happy 2009

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There is a discussion are for ARD located here.

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Hi.
Screen goes totally black.
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We've already done all of that. And we used the same thunderbolt cable to connect two iMac's and that worked totally fine doing the Command+ F2. I don't understand why we can't get the macbook to do the same.

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