Extend your desktop
Give your Mac more display real estate by teaming it with a second screen.
Good as the displays on the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro are, they’re not exactly... roomy. Even the biggest model only has 16 inches of screen real estate to play with and, while you can tweak the display resolution to cram more windows in or use Mission Control to create multiple desktops, sometimes nothing beats having a bigger screen. A much bigger screen. And it’s not just laptops that benefit – you can easily team an iMac with a second display for more wriggle room. Your eyes will thank you for it, and you will get a massive productivity boost too.
Luckily, connecting and using a second display with any Mac is simple. All you need is a compatible monitor (you can pick up a decent one for as little as $300), a spare USB-C, HDMI or
Thunderbolt port on your laptop or desktop (depending on how old it is) and a little bit of macOS know-how. If you have an Apple TV connected to your television, or even an AirPlay 2-compatible set, you can use that to extend your desktop wirelessly too.
In both cases, your first port of call should be System Preferences > Displays, where you’ll be able to tell macOS how you want the separate displays’ desktops arranged, and make other changes, such as the default resolution and color profile of your second screen. Read this guide to find out how you can extend your desktop. ROB MEAD–GREEN
You can easily team an iMac with a second display for more wriggle room. Your eyes will thank you for it, and you will get a massive productivity boost too.