mountain lion airplay requirements

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It won't be supported due to the requirements Apple have released

AirPlay Mirroring

Requires a second-generation Apple TV or later. Supports the following Mac models:

• iMac (Mid 2011 or newer)
• Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer)
• MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer)
• MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer)

http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/

You can buy a software called "airparrot" which can mirror your old mac on apple tv

The experience and reviews have not been that good so I have stopped recommending that.

I have a 17" mbp early 2010, Airparrot works fine for me.

That's good but from my experience and others there is a lot of lag and other things that push it back.

vazandrew wrote:

That's good but from my experience and others there is a lot of lag and other things that push it back.

What are you running it on?

I may give it a shot. Cheaper than a new Mac anyway 😀

I think it may also be interesting to wait for user experience with Airplay capable Macs - I suspect some will find it poor due to their LAN performance.

2008 iMac, it was a little while ago so I could always try it again after upgrading the OS

You do make a good point regarding the LAN performance. iPad mirroring works fine for me, but there could be a difference on how each image transfers over the network

vazandrew wrote:

You do make a good point regarding the LAN performance. iPad mirroring works fine for me, but there could be a difference on how each image transfers over the network

I think processing power and LAN are both rate limiting factors.

Now I suspect my Mac Pro from 2008 would probably have a reasonable stab at Airplay via Airparrot, I may be wrong.

The 2006 Macbook....doubtful.

AC

Its disappointing its not supported on more Apple computers. I suspect a hack work around will be needed.

Airplay Mirroring on mid 2010 Quad Core i7 16GB Ram not supported, C'mon Apple

My mac pro and imac were excluded! So disappointed 😟 Downloaded OS X Mountain Lion for the purpose of airplay mirroring.

Despite being an Apple fan (we all are I guess) and stating the obvious, Apple clearly knows that Airplay is one of the killer features contained within Mountain Lion and is using it as an opportunity to 'encourage' folks with computers older than 18 mos. to buy new gear. I very much doubt that there was a hardware innovation in later versions of its computers that is required to make Airplay mirroring work.

I agree w/ zoshe, it's a matter of time before a jailbroke solution is available.

It seems that it requires on GPU H.264 encoding

http://gizmodo.com/5929249/why-your-old-mac-cant-use-mountain-lion-mirroring

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