Luna Display is $129 for Mac or PC, with port options for USB-C, HDMI, and Mini DisplayPort. People clearly want this functionality for Windows, and now Astropad is finally offering it. The Kickstarter for its new Luna Display for Windows dongles launched on September 30th, 2020 and was successfully funded just an hour later. Its called Luna Display and it is essentially a tiny dongle that plugs into USB-C or MiniDisplay on your mac and allows iPad to do all Astropad can. “Apple zigs, we zag,” Astropad CEO Matt Ronge tweeted at the time.Īstropad has been fairly open about its experience of being copied, including suggesting it was a blessing in disguise when it announced it was testing Windows support in beta (other companies preferred taking legal action). Not long after, the company updated Luna Display to work wirelessly between Macs as a response to Apple’s move. For what it’s worth, Astropad says the restructuring it did for its 5.0 release also means setting up Luna Display on M1 Macs should be faster.Īstropad first launched Luna Display in 2017, about two years before Apple “sherlocked” it with the Sidecar feature added in macOS Catalina. Owners of the older USB-C Luna Display are also able to update to add support for Windows starting today. The company is making Luna Display for Windows available in two types of connectors for plugging into your Windows devices, either USB-C and HDMI. The iPad’s touch controls, gestures, and Pencil support all translate over to Windows. I also prefer to run Luna with the iPad plugged into the Mac with a lightning cable so the Mac could be on my company’s wifi and my iPad can stay on my own personal wifi. Duet’s performance wasn’t very good and it made my MacBook Pro run really hot. That means modern Windows devices and iPads can work together in a variety of configurations, including using the Apple Pencil along with an iPad as a very expensive drawing tablet for your Windows machine. I have a Luna Display which I like quite a lot more than Duet. Windows support is included in Luna Display 5.0 and requires “Windows 10 64-bit, Build 1809 or later” and at least iPadOS 12.1, according to Astropad. Now the company has updated its wireless dongles to include support for Windows PCs, a solid step forward for the company after Apple’s Sidecar made its functionality a built-in part of iPadOS and MacOS. Astropad’s Luna Display is a handy way to turn an iPad or another Mac into a wireless external monitor for Apple’s computers.
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