spacedesk - USB Display for PC

I wanted to connect my Apple Cinema Display to the garbage Lenovo Thinkpad (which my employer requires me to use). The Lenovo refused to recognize the display. So I wanted to my Mac as an intermediary display, then connect the Mac to the Apple Cinema Display. To this end, I spent a half-hour fighting with a godawful Microsoft product called Windows Remote Desktop - which has since been renamed “Windows App” (the Microsoft Marketing team deserves a gold medal for that exceptional rebranding effort). No success. Then I found Spacedesk and in under one minute, I had the Lenovo screen up on my Mac. And not only does it allow my Mac to serve as a display for the Lenovo, it even allows me to use the Mac to operate the Lenovo, just as if I was using the Lenovo directly. This in itself is a huge win - I can’t avoid the displeasure of having to use the atrocious Windows software, but at least I can avoid the further humiliation of having to use the hardware monstrosity known as the Lenovo Thinkpad. And, of course, I can now view it all on my Apple Cinema Display. Thank you, Spacedesk!

I looked around at a lot of other apps that were supposed to do the same thing, they either did not work or you had to pay monthly for them. As a university student, the last thing I want to do is pay for another subscription. This app was completely free and gave me way less of a headache because it was just simple to use. I didn’t have to connect my iPad through a USB, and it connected just fine! It completely helped to save me money too because I was considering just buying a portable monitor to attach to my laptop for if I needed to get work done in the library on campus, which would’ve been $100+ for something I probably would be annoyed with using. I hope this one doesn’t end up becoming a subscription thing too, but at least I know it actually works! At first it was a little slow but you can change the FPS in the settings which fixes this issue. Thank you so much!

I just love when an app does simply one thing and does it right! And that’s not easy to do these days. I used to use Duet but stopped because they got greedy. Forget about Astropad for even higher pricing. Splashtop never worked on my work PC probably due to some security setting. And today, I really needed to use iPad as a second monitor for my work PC, and miraculously found this through googling. I skeptically downloaded this on my iPad Pro and on Windows 10 PC, and I couldn’t believe it just worked! No crazy setup steps. True plug and play. Having some issue connecting through USB, but WiFi connection was automatic w/out any issue so not complaining. Thank you!