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Now i would like to use it as secondary monitor for my laptop.

The mouse goes fast between the 2 screens (GOOD), but when i changed the selected tab nothing happens.

I had to drag the dev tools window to the main screen to get an update of the selected tab.

The steps to configure and enable Target Display mode are very similar.).

Feel free to reorder things so AirDisplay is up top or reject my edit entirely if youre not comfortable collaborating on one answer covering both hardware and software.

As you can see, I modified your edit to highlight the steps relevant to the OPs hardware while mentioning the other information as a side note.

Couple this with a VNC client like TightVNC or JollysFastVNC (from Jinx), you pay once for the main computer, and can use any number (one at a time) of other computers as a remote display.

This software is currently in Beta, and I found that after 5-10 minutes of use, the remote display slowed and became very choppy.

Use As Monitor For Windows Full Screen Unless

Also, the VNC Client does not detect the screen resolution of the host (remote) computer, and so does not allow you to take full screen unless it happens to be one of the predefined resolutions.

However, you have to pay for each machine (1 at a time) that you use as a remote monitor - opposite of how ScreenRecycler is licensed.

Air Display also used the host computers screen resolution nicely, but at times motion became choppy.

I have not tested it, as what I wanted to do was use my Mac and extend to external monitors wirelessly, but the hardware is too old to support AirPlay to an Apple TV.

MaxiVista runs from 49.95 to 129.95, which I find to be way too expensive, as the others are around 20.

For the price of MaxiVista, you may as well just buy a physical monitor and skip the network bandwidth utilization and lagginess.

Its also probably why there are very littleany VGA to mDP adapters as they would be expensive and not too many people would purchase them.

All sources I searched stated that it was either very difficult or impossible to go from an analog VGA to a digital mDP.

You would need a Dual Link DVI to DP (150 used - none selling new) and a DP to mDP (7.53).

They only offer Mac solutions, to offer a tablet or phone as external display for a Mac.

They also describe using a Windows PC, but there is no Windows software to download, so I think this must be a mistake in updating the description.

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