New iMac with M6

Re:New iMac with M6 by wolvoleo on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:39PM (#50266875)

The older imacs at least had target display mode. That was pretty amazing so you could say least use it at a screen after it's useful life as a computer. Unfortunately they dropped it years ago. It wasn't very efficient on power and you had to use a key combo, I don't think you could make it boot straight into it every time. But at least it was there.

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Re:New iMac with M6 by 0xWTF on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:31PM (#50268277)

I really loved target display mode. It made me so happy

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Re:New iMac with M6 by jeffhwang on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:11PM (#50268544)

agreed! I am just one of several people in my circle who would have loved to keep using our 27" Intel iMacs as target mode displays. Within the Apple ecosystem, once the old 27" iMacs were discontinued there was no simple (again within there Apple ecosystem) inexpensive way of having displays larger than 24".

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Re:New iMac with M6 by kccqzy on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @08:12AM (#50272346)

Target display mode couldn’t be supported since the 2014 iMac because the DisplayPort standard didn’t have enough bandwidth so the display was driven by two DP signals (tiling).

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Re:New iMac with M6 by wolvoleo on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:57AM (#50275810)

Yes for a year or two but then it was possible again. But they never reintroduced it.

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