can I use a Late 2009 iMac as a display

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Hi,

I have been using a now obsolete iMac (late 2009) for a while now, and I finally got enough to build a new one computer. Now that I have, I was wondering, am I able to use the old iMac as a display? I have seen conflicting opinions and ideas about this, but most of them seem to be about thunderbolt, not mini dvi. It'd be handy to have a 3rd monitor for extra screen space or whatever.

EDIT: Oops, sorry, its an early 2009, not late
 
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There are some all in one systems that do have a video input that allowed the monitor to be used as a monitor for another system, but those are very rare and I only heard of a few of them in many years.

There is a program that...

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Well, im essentially plugging a computer into a computer, so it doesn't work.

I'm not too familiar with OSX because I put bootcamp on it straight away, but I believe there is some feature called "target display mode" or something similar, I was wondering if I could use this feature with a PC or if there was a similar program for windows.

 


There are some all in one systems that do have a video input that allowed the monitor to be used as a monitor for another system, but those are very rare and I only heard of a few of them in many years.

There is a program that allows you to use the network to push a screen to another system but I can't find it right now. A co-worker of mine used it to extend his PC display to a 3rd monitor that was actually attached to a separate computer. It's probably not cross platform so likely even if you can find it it won't for for PC to MAC.
 
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