Here, it’s wirelessly throwing to an iPad operating as a secondary display. The red dongle on the left of the computer is the Luna Display.

Once Apple beat it at its own game, the founders kept the lights on and announced a year ago that it pivoted to working on a Windows product instead, fueling its product development with a $400,000 Kickstarter project. To its credit, the company and its founders have been good at staying transparent with its offering throughout. Its rapid rise to stardom was torpedoed when Apple launched Sidecar back in 2019, effectively making Luna’s product moot, and sending the company into crisis mode.

The company originally launched its product about five years ago, then added a wireless module back in 2018 to get rid of the pesky wires. We’ve been following the company and its product for its long and arduous route. To say that the company has had a hard time with bringing its products to market would be the understatement of the century. Today, it’s available for Windows machines as well, completing Astropad’s pivot to a multiplatform product. It was originally launched for Mac only, but Apple launched a competing product, putting the company in jeopardy for a couple of years. It’s also supposed to work with Windows computers, too.The Luna Display from Astropad is a clever product enabling you to use your iPad as a second display. Luna Display, originally a Kickstarter project, has generated mostly positive feedback since it was shipped out to backers this summer. And as long as the device is within the same Wi-Fi network, the iPad doesn’t have to be right next to the Mac Mini all the time.īut here’s where the visual payoff - and why we’re talking about this - comes in: if users decide to go traditional with a mouse and desktop, standing that iPad on top of a Mac Mini looks plain ridiculous thanks mostly to that juxtaposition of the performance that can be accessed inside that small box. It also gives some versatility to using the new Apple Pencil as well. Boy, does it ever.įor one thing, enabling use of the iPad - in this case, one of the latest iPad Pro refreshes - and its touch panel gives a new dimension to macOS that some have wanted for years now.

With the launch of the new Mac Mini, though, Luna’s creators decided to put its app to the test and see if an iPad could act as the primary display for a workstation. If you’re into the Apple ecosystem, this little USB-C (or Mini DisplayPort) stub saves you the cost of getting a dedicated display while also letting the iPad become an iPad elsewhere. For those who needed a bit more room on their Mac desktops, the Luna Display dongle created a Wi-Fi enabled bridge to let users wirelessly connect their iPads as an extended display.

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