iPad as another display for your computer
The Internet has been discussing the Air Display applet ( App Store $ 9.99 ) for several days, which turns your iPad into another (wireless) display. Today I set it myself. And here are my couple of impressions and 50 cents.
The author of the video forgot to mention that touches are working on the new display. Multitouch gestures failed to reproduce, but you can click on the buttons.
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So, you need a special application that finds the iPad on the network and makes it another monitor in the system. Interestingly, and if I have a lot of devices on the network of different users, will the war for the monitors start? (8 A new monitor behaves the same way as any other wired monitor connected to a computer. I brought a YouTube browser to it and played an hour of video.
Since the image from the main computer is transferred to the iPad via wi-fi, JPEG compression and FPS limitation are clearly visible. Video in this way is not very fun to watch. But any more or less static things can be dragged onto a separate small display. I experimented with RSS reader and Photoshop pads.
Now about the sad. For an hour of work, the “monitor” fell off 2 times. At the same time, the remaining displays are “rearranged” for a few seconds and all windows from the iPad are thrown onto the main monitor. The device can immediately be turned back on, but it was pretty annoying. I do not know why this is happening, they say, the iPad loses wi-fi from time to time, but has never seen it with anything before.
Still, the iPad, even when connected to a computer, does not charge during use. For an hour of work, I ate 12% of the battery. So you have to use the shift method - a few hours worked, half a day charge.
Total. For myself, I still see more problems than the advantages of using the iPad as another monitor. Incomprehensible disconnections and refusal to charge from the computer during operation call into question the usefulness of Air Display.
The author of the video forgot to mention that touches are working on the new display. Multitouch gestures failed to reproduce, but you can click on the buttons.
')
So, you need a special application that finds the iPad on the network and makes it another monitor in the system. Interestingly, and if I have a lot of devices on the network of different users, will the war for the monitors start? (8 A new monitor behaves the same way as any other wired monitor connected to a computer. I brought a YouTube browser to it and played an hour of video.
Since the image from the main computer is transferred to the iPad via wi-fi, JPEG compression and FPS limitation are clearly visible. Video in this way is not very fun to watch. But any more or less static things can be dragged onto a separate small display. I experimented with RSS reader and Photoshop pads.
Now about the sad. For an hour of work, the “monitor” fell off 2 times. At the same time, the remaining displays are “rearranged” for a few seconds and all windows from the iPad are thrown onto the main monitor. The device can immediately be turned back on, but it was pretty annoying. I do not know why this is happening, they say, the iPad loses wi-fi from time to time, but has never seen it with anything before.
Still, the iPad, even when connected to a computer, does not charge during use. For an hour of work, I ate 12% of the battery. So you have to use the shift method - a few hours worked, half a day charge.
Total. For myself, I still see more problems than the advantages of using the iPad as another monitor. Incomprehensible disconnections and refusal to charge from the computer during operation call into question the usefulness of Air Display.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/95632/
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