Switch on an iMac

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My daughter wants to use the screen of her iMac (last of the Intel ones) or her M1 MacBook. as a display for her switch. So looking for a cheap usb capture device. Any suggestions greatly appreciated as the first one we got from Amazon didn’t work as it was damaged on delivery.

[manikyath]

playing trough a capture card really isnt a nice experience, even with very low latency capture cards it's often at least a bit sloppy.

 

and unfortunately along with that comes that cheap and low latency are often polar opposites with capture cards... and i wouldnt dare quote on stuff having polished drivers for an M1 macbook...

[GuiltySpark_]

Probably the best method would be an Elgato Cam Link 4K. Supposedly the latency is quite low though for the price of it, you could just buy a cheap 1080P monitor and have a much less complicated and better experience. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Cam-Link-Broadcast-Camcorder/dp/B07K3FN5MR?th=1

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29 minutes ago, rickeo said:

Probably the best method would be an Elgato Cam Link 4K. Supposedly the latency is quite low though for the price of it, you could just buy a cheap 1080P monitor and have a much less complicated and better experience. 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Cam-Link-Broadcast-Camcorder/dp/B07K3FN5MR?th=1

Thanks. She is a student so has little room for a monitor as well. I have plenty of spare ones but as I said, room is the issue. I thing she only really wants it to use ring fit so not the most demanding use case.