Using an External Display with your Mac laptop?
Did you know that if you who work on a Mac laptop with an external display, you can close your laptop’s screen and keep working? Apple calls this closed-clamshell or closed-display mode. It requires that you connect an external keyboard and mouse or trackpad, via either USB or Bluetooth, and the laptop should be connected to power as well. Apple also recommends putting the Mac to sleep before disconnecting the external display. Why would you want to use closed-display mode? Mostly to conserve desk space when you have another preferred keyboard and pointing device, although it might also help graphics performance by allowing the Mac to focus on driving only the external display. There are lots of stands that hold a MacBook in a vertical orientation so it takes up less desk space. The Twelve South BookArc shown above happens to be one sold on Apple’s site, but there are more on Amazon.
