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what's going on guys johnathan here with TLD got an early morning video dishing out the tech fist you get it anyways got a MacBook Air hooked up to an iMac as an external display I'm gonna show you guys how to set that up how it works on what you're going to need aside from the hardware you're going to need the keyboard for the iMac and a thunderbolt cable specifically a thunderbolt cable not a mini DisplayPort cable because this is a thunderbolt port out that's the only way it will work so we're going Thunderbolt out on the macbook air into the Thunderbolt in on the iMac now this will work from what I've read with other IMAX except this mini DisplayPort and you just have to have that Thunderbolt cable so what we're gonna do on the iMac keyboard is where hit command F 2 that's going to be our keyboard shortcut that's going to switch displays like you can tap the spacebar on the MacBook Air just to make sure it gets engaged and everything will all be set up running smoothly you guys can see I have everything on the IMAX screen it's going to be two displays so if I drag the mouse over we got some MacBook Air back to the iMac I have this set up to be the primary display so many couple d-line features launch pad everything is running smoothly let's go and open some programs we're gonna slide back and forth let's go to open Safari full screen mode everything is seamless running smoothly so this little guy is powering this 27-inch display we're gonna add another desktop get the mouse back and everything's else running smoothly so you guys can see I can jump back and forth everything's running I don't know how to thing hope to the power supply so I should be doing that but I just want to show you guys a quick demo on how to use MacBook Air with an iMac as an external display so if you guys enjoyed this video make sure to retweet it thumbs up all that good stuff it helps me out as always feel free to subscribe thank you guys so much for watching the video and I'll see you guys later you