Is there a way to slave one macbook to another?

farwest1 · Post by **farwest1** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 11:58 pm

I have a spare macbook and I'm wondering if I can slave it as a monitor and external hard drive to my main macbook—rather than buying another monitor.

I remember some piece of software that would allow me to do this. Any tips?

cosmosuave · Post by **cosmosuave** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:03 am

One of these oughta do it..

kooki415 · Post by **kooki415** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:12 am

cant do the monitor. but startup while holding t and it will act like a firewire drive.

mooncaine · Post by **mooncaine** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:46 am

You could get Apple Remote Desktop and run the other remotely? So at least you'd be in control from one keyboard...

fatrabbit · Post by **fatrabbit** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:13 am

You're lucky to have a spare Macbook just lying around.

pev · Post by **pev** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:53 am

You're wanting to use ScreenRecycler :
http://www.screenrecycler.com/home.html
As for drive sharing, just network the two machines. Note that for PC users you can use something similar called MaxiVista which is superb!

Something that I don't know if Ableton supports (but Logic does!) is XGrid. You can turn this on on your spare machine(s) and processing load gets distributed over the network to as many machines as are available....!

~Pev

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:59 am

farwest1 wrote:I have a spare macbook and I'm wondering if I can slave it as a monitor and external hard drive to my main macbook—rather than buying another monitor.

I remember some piece of software that would allow me to do this. Any tips?

I'll trade you my 17" tft... ?

Is there a way to slave one macbook to another?

Is there a way to slave one macbook to another?

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