Replicate your physical monitor setup in this window to make the transition between multiple displays really easy. So if you have 27 and 24 inch monitors connected to a 13 inch MacBook, you won’t have any problems figuring out which is which. The display sizes are scaled accordingly.

If you’re mounting your external display above and your MacBook’s screen below, you can go ahead and drop it on top. In the same Arrangement screen you can drag the displays around to change the placement. Just click and drag it over to any of your external displays to make that one the default monitor. In there you’ll see the menu bar sitting atop your MacBook’s display. First, make sure the Mirror Displays option is deselected. If you want to change the default monitor from your MacBook’s screen to one of the connected displays, go to System Preferences -> Displays and you’ll see an Arrangement tab. The most important part here is the power cable, without that your Mac will just go to sleep as soon as the lid is closed. Shut the lid and your MacBook now works as a desktop CPU unit. If you’ve got a huge external monitor and wish to dock it with a MacBook and attach Bluetooth keyboard and mouse instead of creating a multi-monitor setup, you’ll need to use the clamshell mode.Īll you do is connect your display to MacBook via the Thunderbolt adaptor and connect the power cable. And although I don’t have any personal experience with them, you can also find USB to HDMI convertors if you want to attach more than one display. Plus mDP to HDMI convertors are pretty cheap. A note about connectors: MacBooks come with Thunderbolt ports but they are backwards compatible with mini DisplayPort.

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