Duet Display turns your iPad into a second monitor<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><a href='
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http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large_wm_brw/public/field/image/2015/02/duet-display-hero.jpg?itok=gy1MOhYA' />[/url]</p> <p>Sometimes you just need more work space on your Mac. You
could appease this by buying a second monitor, but it may well be that you need this space while on traveling — a place where a second full-sized screen becomes much more cumbersome than helpful. The solution? Use your iPad.</p> <p>
Duet Display is a tethered second-screen option that lets you borrow your iPad's Retina display for your Mac. You can display anything you like on that second screen — including full-framerate video — and interact with that content directly on the iPad, as well.</p> <!--break--> <p>Like
Astropad, Duet Display is actually made up of two different apps, for Mac and iOS respectively. The Mac companion app is free; the iOS app is $16. Setting up Duet is dead simple: Just tether your iOS device to your Mac via Lightning or Dock connector and launch both apps, and your screen will be up and running in no time. I also appreciated how quickly Duet loads when you're reconnecting your iPad and Mac — as long as the Mac app's running in the background, when you launch the iPad version of Duet, your second screen appears almost instantly.</p> <p>Duet boasts full Retina resolution on your iPad at 60FPS, and it's no joke: The screen is crisp and clear, with little-to-no possible lag. I only ran into a delay — and a millisecond one at that — when moving windows around or using Photoshop tools; contained items (like YouTube and Hulu clips) ran seamlessly and in sync with their audio, though that audio only plays on the Mac.</p> <p><a href='
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http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2015/02/duet-display-ipad-second-screen.jpg?itok=54bmrXqz' />[/url]</p> <p>The iPad's touch controls are sadly a little more lacking, in part due to OS X simply not being made for fingers. One finger taps are functional enough, but two-finger scrolling is a tad jerky, and trying to work with Pixelmator brushes is downright impossible. I'm guessing it's a lag input issue, because those tasks work perfectly well when using a trackpad or mouse.</p> <p>Duet is
technically also usable on an iPhone — any device running iOS 7 or later, really. But the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus offer so little real estate when it comes to full-sized windows that it's hard to justify using the device for such a purpose; if an iPhone is truly your only second screen, it might be better to just use a
Mountie and an app built for what you want to display.</p> <p><a href='
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http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/public/field/image/2015/02/iphone-duet-display-example.jpg?itok=VZHdSgbD' />[/url]</p> <h2>The bottom line</h2> <p>Though Duet suffers somewhat when it comes to using the iPad's capacitative screen to touch and move windows, as a straight secondary display it's an excellent tool in your iPad's toolbox. I've been using it all the time alongside my MacBook Air, and it also makes a big difference in space-constrained offices where you might not have the option for a larger secondary display.</p> </div></div></div><div id="comment-wrapper-nid-30011"></div><img width='1' height='1' src='
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