Macs have gained ground in the gaming world with the rise of Apple silicon chips, as those M-series chips massively boost performance. But sometimes you just want to play on a console rather than your computer. Today’s MacBook Air user switches to Xbox One for gaming. And he gave simple advice, below, to curious commenters who wanted to know how he gets the system to work with his Studio Display. He describes his method below.
MacBook Air setup does this to get Xbox to play nice with Studio Display
Redditor Ok-Mulberry6597 (“Ok”) showcased the clean and simple setup in a post entitled, “Mac/ipad/xbox/studio setup.” We last covered a picture-perfect iMac setup by Ok back in January. Today we’ll focus on the new setup’s trick to get Xbox One to play nice with Studio Display. And by the way, Ok mounts his Apple 5K monitor on a Satechi display stand, which is currently 10% off on Amazon ($39.99 $35.99).
“I know it’s expensive but that Studio Display is stunning!” Ok wrote. “In this setup: Studio display Macbook air M1 (under the riser), iPad Pro M4 13-inch (plus Pro Pencil and Magic Keyboard), Satechi keyboard Slim plus monitor raiser, [Logitech] MX Master mac (mouse), Grovemade desk mat, Ikea chair and desk, Metallica limited poster (coming up on the Wall soon) Xbox (really not using it, so no need to bad trash the display not being a gaming monitor).😉”
How to use Xbox with Studio Display
And while Ok says he doesn not use Xbox much, that didn’t stop commenters from asking questions about it. And he had answers.
“How’d you get the box working with the Studio Display?” asked a commenter. “Currently struggling with this.”
“I use a capture card dongle and a app called Orion,” Ok explained in reply to that question and others like it. He’s referring to HDMI Monitor – Orion, an external display system app from Lux Optics that you can find in the App Store.
And here’s a basic description of an alternative method, courtesy of Google search AI:
- Connect a VGA cable from the monitor to the VGA adapter.
- Plug the VGA adapter into the Xbox’s HDMI port.
- Make sure the Xbox is off.
And if you like the desktop wallpaper showing on the screens, Ok said it comes with iPadOS 18 (beta). The new OS is coming soon, or available now in a beta version. But if you don’t want to join the beta testing program, you can find out how to download the wallpapers directly here from other sources.
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