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> I guess after this machine is obsolete, there's a "screen mode" where these things can be used as a monitor and the 18 Xeon cores are powered down? I wish, t
by snuxoll 9y ago
> I guess after this machine is obsolete, there's a "screen mode" where these things can be used as a monitor and the 18 Xeon cores are powered down?
I wish, there used to be Target Display Mode but it was removed in recent years (anything after Mid-2014). For the 5K iMac it was pretty obvious why it was missing, until fairly recently (DP 1.3 was ratified late 2014) there wasn't a connection fast enough to even drive the internal display (they ended up using a custom timing controller to overdrive a DP 1.2 link) so TDM was a no-go, but it'd be nice if they brought it back :/
- quesera 9y agoEven when Target Display Mode was a thing, it still required a running OS on the target system. I do love my iMacs, but I spend more than zero time shaking my head at the tight coupling of expensive, high quality components that will, eventually, fail independently. Apple generally does a great job keeping the "eventually" at bay. But it's always coming.