When connecting my 2017 15' macbook pro to a 4k external monitor it gets a little bit warmer (65° celsius, while it's only at 35 without the monitor) than I want it to be, even if it's just idling.
Since I don't ever use the macbook screen as a secondary screen when connected, I thought I might turn it off completely and hopefully cool the machine down a little bit. Is there any way of doing this? I figured out I could just set the brightness to 0 but will this prevent the machine from actually rendering images?
MacBook – Turn off macbook screen when connected to a monitor
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Best Answer
If the idea was to just hide doubled picture on laptop display, you can just lower brightness level to 0 using
fn+F1