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I've got this 2009 macbook pro that I haven't touched in a while. It barely runs, but lately I've been thinking it'd be useful to have a second monitor for my desktop. I've looked into directly hooking the laptop up to the PC, and apparently that won't work, but is there any way to separate the screen from the machine, house it in something else, probably connect it to an adapter or something, and use that with VGA input?

More specifically, I guess I'm looking for a component that'll adapt the VGA to whatever kind of input the macbook's LCD takes.

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Worth mentioning since there's an older question about a non destructive method of doing what you want

Depends on what interface it uses. It might be a simple ~40 dollar driver board, or a even simpler adaptor.

If it uses LVDS (which is more likely), there's boards consisting of a driver chip, various other parts and such that will let you plug in VGA, HDMI or even composite connections. Make sure your vendor asks you for the panel type since the boards are tailored to specific displays, and there's some variations depending on resolution. Google's your friend here (since vendors will change) but you're looking for a "lcd driver board"

If its eDP (and I'm pretty sure a 2009 mbp is not) a 'simple' edp-dp adaptor would do the trick.

To identify the interface

LVDS cables look like this

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I've not seen a eDP cable in the wild yet

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