the wireless iPad Pro touchscreen Mac Mini Setup! #Helpful Post

yo guys Johnson here 2018 has been an

amazing year protected hands-down one of

my favorite releases is the 2018 iPad

pro I've been working furiously on the

in-depth full-length monster review

which is dropping tomorrow morning so

keep your eyes peeled for that but today

I'm gonna give you a little taste

more than likely every iPad video you've

watched there's been a statement echoed

throughout it's fast its powerful its

overall really good but what holds it

back is that you can't put Mac OS on it

but what if you could

so yeah this is the iPad pro being used

wirelessly as a display for the 2018 Mac

Mini the touchscreen works the Apple

pencil works I'm not gonna lie when I

saw this hit the internet this week my

immediate reaction was now while this

may seem like magic all this is actually

happening thanks to this little guy the

Luna display by Astro pad so what it is

is this tiny little Compaq adapter that

was initially supposed to be plugged

into your MacBook Pro or your iMac and

then use your iPad as a secondary

display naturally they were like what if

this works with the Mac Mini and oh my

god it works now in addition to USB see

it also comes in a DisplayPort version

and I want to stress that you must use

this with a native port on your computer

you cannot use it with a dongle or

adapter and it only works on Mac sorry

PC boys without getting too technical

essentially how it works is through

Wi-Fi suppose the I've had Pro and Mac

Mini must be connected to the same

network and I will emphasize that you

must have a really solid Wi-Fi

connection or forget about it

 

what I really like is the customization

you can orientate it as your right

screen as your left screen and I was

actually surprised at how well and how

smooth the software experience was so

when I set this up last night my mind

was actually blown and I'm not sure if

I've yet recovered like I was running

around spinning on chairs because I was

that excited it's one thing to have your

iPad as a secondary display but to have

touchscreen functionality to grab that

Apple pencil press so far and see it

work now kind of diving back to reality

for a second because as awesome as this

is as well as it works honestly what

surprised me most with this was the lack

of lag like it's almost instantaneous

but really I would say don't go out and

buy an iPad pro just to use as a monitor

for your Mac Mini if you happen to have

both and then it makes sense because the

adapter itself is relatively inexpensive

now smaller details like audio from what

I can tell that doesn't appear to be a

way to get that to come through the iPad

pro it comes through the Mac Mini what

more than likely makes sense though as

you're gonna use bluetooth headphones or

air pods or Bluetooth speaker or in this

case the home pod actually works

surprisingly well what's also really

awesome is you have a handful of setup

options so you can go the traditional

route of a keyboard a trackpad or a

mouse

Matthew Moniz or what's crazy cool is

you can even use the iPad pro keyboard

the mind-blowing just doesn't stop I do

also want to mention and stress that

while you're initially setting this up

you need some sort of external display

so again don't just buy these two

together and expect them to work out of

the box once you get this set up and

going though you can totally use it

without that display just a Mac Mini

just the iPad pro but there are a couple

caveats one you got to use it without a

password or two you got to be really

good at typing in that password without

seeing what you're doing again the

biggest factor in this entire thing is

going to be your Wi-Fi connection if

it's bad it is going to be a horrendous

laggy experience but if it's good it is

crazy how well it works so in a nutshell

it works way better than I ever could

have imagined it also kind of gives us a

sneak peek of what if Mac OS came to

iPad well I wouldn't hold my breath for

that to happen what excited me the most

with this whole concept is the idea of

Final Cut Pro on the iPad that is

absolutely the thing I'm going to dive

into next if you guys want to see a

detailed video on that let me know by

smashing that like button thank you guys

very much for watching again the full in

depth monster iPad pro review is

dropping tomorrow morning

this is Jonathan and I will catch you

guys later my lips are frozen