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The performance options in the desktop Settings app include High Power (the best image but most battery-draining if you're using a laptop), Energy Efficient, and Pixel Perfect. Setting the app's screen refresh rate from 30 frames per second (fps) to 60fps smooths out the animation and sharpens details, but it causes your laptop to work harder to maintain the higher resolution and drawing rates. You can minimize this delay by fiddling with the Duet Display's settings on the desktop. That said, if you have eagle eyes, you may notice a slight lag when dragging windows around on the mobile's screen. Dragging a window from the computer's display to the iPad's screen works just as it would with any external monitor.

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We used a Surface Book and several Apple and Android mobile devices to extend the desktop's interface (not at the same time: Duet only supports adding one mobile screen). If you usually carry your device's USB cable with you for recharging, you don't have to bring (or buy) anything extra to use Duet Display when you're on the road. Touch in Duet works well for scrolling and tapping icons and buttons, as well as for dragging windows around.

Sidecar does, however, add a Touch bar, and drawing apps can use the Apple Pencil with it. The app adds touch capability to any program you move over to that display-that's more than you get with Apple's Sidecar, which offers a non-touch display. The mobile's screen can do all the typical multi-monitor functions, including extending or mirroring the desktop. You can use Windows' Settings to choose whether you want the Taskbar on the second display, which isn't useful for small displays like those on smartphones. It briefly says 'Adjusting Resolution' and then you see an extended desktop on the mobile display. When you open the Duet Display app, the computer takes control. You even see mobile notifications while using the app. Once you connect it via the USB cable, the mobile continues to behave normally, with all sync and recharging functions active.

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An upgrade, Duet Air ($1.99 per month), lets you connect wirelessly using Wi-Fi and even lets you use a second desktop instead of a mobile device (though Windows 10 has a built-in Connect feature for this).

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The installation requires a reboot of the computer, which is a bit of a nuisance, and rare these days.Īfter downloading and installing the driver on your Mac or Windows desktop or laptop, you simply hook the mobile device up to the computer's USB port. When you first run the app, it tells you to visit Duet Display's website (Opens in a new window) on your PC (running Windows 7 or later) or Mac (running OS X 10.9 or later). The app is compatible with iOS 10 or later and iPadOS (there's only been one version so far) and with Android 7.1 or later. You start by grabbing Duet Display ($9.99 at ) (Opens in a new window) from the App Store on your iPad (or iPhone) or on Google Play. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. ( Read our editorial mission (Opens in a new window) & see how we test everything we review (Opens in a new window).) And you can even turn a Chromebook into a secondary display, since Chrome OS can run Android apps. It also works cross-platform, so you can use a Windows PC or a Mac as the host and Apple or Android mobile devices as the secondary display. This makes a good case for using Duet Display in a reclamation project for an old tablet you no longer use regularly. Duet Display can work with iPads dating from as far back as 2012.

In fact, Sidecar won't work with any iPad released before 2019.

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The app works well in a pinch-or even full time-and offers upgrades like wireless connectivity and Apple Pencil support for the iPad, though the latter requires paying an extra fee.Īpple's latest operating systems, Catalina on the Mac and iPadOS on the tablet, now offer built-in secondary display functionality with Sidecar, but that only works with very recent hardware models.

The Duet Display app ($9.99) can help, by turning a tablet or smartphone into an external monitor. With more of us working from home than ever these days, many of us have lost access to multiple monitor setups like those we have at the office.

Wi-Fi and Apple Pencil support require paid in-app upgrades.

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