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I’m installing a Mac Mini into my cart, and am now faced with the question of monitors. I have dual 7” Marshall video monitors for my camera feeds, but now I need something for the Mac.

 

Currently I am pondering which kind of monitor to be using, how to mount it, and if possible, leave it hooked up but maybe foldable, so that I don’t have to install it every time I want to use it. 

 

My current setup has all the “guts” of my cart in a rack mount case. 

 

Please share photos, links, and useful information. Thank you!

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Recently I was looking into the same. I stumbled upon these slim iPad kinda HDMI monitors. might worth to explore this route because it is so low weight and very cost effective, Maybe some articulating tablet holder with a 1/4 inch thread to a blind panel or something. Loads of rugged tablet holders out there already.  

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https://www.amazon.com/UPERFECT-Portable-1920×1080-Raspberry-Cellphone/dp/B07K8JLR4C

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I'm in the middle of redesigning my cart around a Mac Mini as well. My current plan is to replace my 7" dual monitors with one of these 1RU pullout 17" monitors:

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https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1302336-REG/lilliput_rm_1730_s_17_3_full_hd_pull_out.html

 

I plan on using the HDMI input with the Mac Mini and using the SDI input for video (using a Decimator on the source end to combine video streams to a single SDI), and just switching back and forth with the front buttons as needed.

 

Then in addition to that, I already use an iPad on my cart for Scriptation, so I'm going to use the Duet app to extend my Mac Mini's desktop to the iPad as well:

https://www.duetdisplay.com/

 

My hope is that I'll be satisfied with those two screens doing double duty, since I don't really NEED to be looking at my Mac's screen while shooting, it's more for setting up Dante, Wireless Designer, emailing sound reports etc.

I suppose there will be a time when I'll want to simultaneously see the script, the video feed, and Wireless Designer during a shot if I'm troubleshooting RF problems, but I'll wait and see how important that is before committing to a third monitor. I like the idea of using my existing screens.

 

 

 

 

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Just thought I'd chirp in because I'm currently working on a project fairly similar. 

 

I'm creating a new live looping music rig, the brain of which is an Intel NUC8 that I've Hackintoshed (4x smaller, 4x less expensive, and 2x the performance of a real mac!), and am similarly using a portable monitor like the one mentioned above with the setup. If you want to see more about my project, check out this thread or the Gearslutz thread linked: 

 

The monitor I ended up using is a "UPERFECT" 15.6" touchscreen portable monitor I got on eBay for under $200- and believe it or not, it actually works with macOS! It's 1080p, but to be completely honest I can't really tell much of a difference from my 15" Retina MacBook Pro. It looks nearly identical. It works as a mouse-input though, so no multi-gesture. I've heard these work even better with Windows: https://www.ebay.com/itm/224067732910

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