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Mountain Lion AirPlay Mirroring (iMac to AppleTV) Not Working

Mountain Lion successfully installed on my iMac.


AppleTV sucessfully networked with my iMac (at least where iTunes and iPhoto are concerned.)


But AirPlay icon is NOT appearing in my menu bar. Any clues as to why this is?


In System Preferences, I've checked "Show mirroring options in the menu bar when available" but still nothing.


Below is a screenshot of my menu bar. Thanks in advance!




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Posted on Jul 25, 2012 9:13 AM

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Posted on Jul 25, 2012 9:16 AM

Never mind. Just realized my iMac is too old. Late 2009.


AirPlay will only work for mid 2011. 😟

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Jul 26, 2012 6:26 AM in response to jcetheredge

I'm so upset right now! Months of waiting for Mountain lion to come out for this one feature only to find out after having paid of it, that it won't work on my mac. I want my money back as well. I see now in the details the requirements that I must have a new mac book from mid 2011 or newer for this this to work.

But no where in the months of watching the updates and videos from their own web page have they ever brought up the limitations of which mac's this will work on. So it never even crossed my mind to go and check system requirements for a specific feature in the latest OS Mountain Lion. Makes me wonder what else I paid for that would/will work on my mac book pro as it's not a 2011 mid year or newer...

Really apple you have let me down. Now when people ask me about mac, now I will have to tell them about this too and that more then anything else is going to hurt your sales on new mac's, that your beginning unethical practices like this.

Jul 26, 2012 6:30 AM in response to jcetheredge

What annoys me the most is that this issue isn't based on incompitance or 'older' technology (12 months according to Apple), it's purely based on despotism!


It's absolutely ridiculous that a 3rd party program like AirParrot will enable a simple function like airplay to work considering most people have been conned into purchasing mountain lion based on the marketing ploy that it 'does' do airplay.


Apple should have an ad on TV stating, 'For all Apple users with computers older than 12 months, BUY AIRPARROT as they seemed to have a work around for performing airplay on older machines even though we won't!'


What a joke!

Jul 26, 2012 6:37 AM in response to vlnhs

Click on the parrots head on the top menu and click on Start Audio. If you don't have the driver it will ask if you want to d/l it. That is where you find the driver. if that doesnt work, let me know. i'll send you the link to remove the bugged driver so the new one will replace it. I had that issue and contacted support, and that's what they told me to do.

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