Target disk mode is performed during boot and was first introduced in 1991.
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Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 5 months agoYeah, I’ve used third party software to get tablets as wireless monitors, but it has mostly sucked. Hopefully it’ll be opened soon. Tho if they started with it closed, that’s how it’ll remain. Apple has the target disk mode, but doesn’t the laptop need to be shut down for it to work? Besides, APFS or whatever they use is useless when compared to literally anything else
zelifcam@lemmy.world 5 months ago
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Modern Macs can’t do Target Disk Mode. If you had the right cables (thunderbolt or firewire) it was really fast, just as quick as a high end internal PCIe SSD.
It’s been replaced with “Mac Sharing Mode” which operates while the Mac is running normally and is nowhere near as quick or reliable.