{"id":1716,"date":"2025-11-17T12:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:14:44","slug":"the-ultimate-way-to-convert-an-old-imac-into-a-studio-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/the-ultimate-way-to-convert-an-old-imac-into-a-studio-display\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate way to convert an old iMac into a Studio Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-ultimate-way-to-convert-an-old-iMac-into-a-Studio-Display.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Way back in 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/aapl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple<\/a> added a very handy feature to <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/imac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">iMacs<\/a>, allowing them to be used as a monitor for another <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/guides\/mac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a> \u2013 typically a MacBook. Known as Target Display Mode, the company unfortunately dropped the feature from the model launched in late 2014 and it has never returned.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to do the same with later iMacs, there is <a href=\"https:\/\/astropad.com\/blog\/step-by-step-guide-how-to-use-your-imac-as-a-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an app for that<\/a>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/08\/12\/use-imac-as-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">we outlined last year<\/a>. But Quinn Nelson at Snazzy Labs opted instead for the ultimate conversion \u2026 <\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"imac,mac,studio-display\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1028596\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/11\/17\/the-ultimate-way-to-convert-an-old-imac-into-a-studio-display\/#more-1028596\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 2009, Apple added a very handy feature to iMacs, allowing them to be used as ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}