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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!
Never mind. Just realized my iMac is too old. Late 2009.
AirPlay will only work for mid 2011. 😟
This is ridiculous. There's NO technical reason Apple couldn't make this work.
As an alternative, Airflick does the same thing though isn't as elegant as an Apple solution would be.
Google it or check it out here: http://ericasadun.com/ftp/AirPlay/
I agre with everyone on this post this is just ridiculous. This is where Apple is really frusterating...do right by everyone and fix this immediately.
I feel cheated too. I bought ML also primarely because of the Airplay feature and I don't remember seeing any notice telling me that it won't work with older macs.
I won't my money back!
Add my name to the list. Bught ML primarily for Airplay but it will not work on my iMac i3. Very P****d off.
This is really ridicules,my MBP is i5 (mid 2010) which I've bought it early 2011 and I've got an Apple TV3 just a few days ago, upgraded to MLion just for AIRPLAY MIRRORING and now what. I'm as upset as every on else, felt cheated and I think APPLE is getting to greedy to push us every day to purchase new devices.If Microsoft have had down the same, its share would have been as twice as Apple's share.
Just so upset and disappointed with Apple at this moment I upgraded to ML for this specific reason and to find out that my Mid-2009 MBP is not compatible is just ridiculous...
Add my name to the list of disappointed. Make it right, Apple!
Add one more but i already know this 😉.
Don't worry, if Apple doesn't fix this, a hack will do.
Yep, definitely had NO idea that this wouldnt work on my MacBook Pro! I love APPLE but I really do feel a bit cheated at the moment! PLEASE FIX!!
i have one macbook pro i7 2.8 late 2011 and i cant use airplay function.
What an f'n joke. I upgraded to ML like the rest of you because of Airplay. Someone please show me somewhere that said that it won't be available for most existing computers. If not, this is complete BS
What a load of crap this is. This "OS" update doesn't get me airplay mirroring. Messages integration isn't coming until OS 6 (if it actually happens). Facebook integration is coming later this fall. I mean does anything Apple advertised as a upgrade actually freaking work? Full screen apps still black out my second monitor. Oh wait. I have a Notes and Reminders app and I can "star" people in mail. Big woopty doo. Could have just given me application updates. This is a pointless freaking release.
What makes this worse on Apple's part is that they did a pretty good job of explaining that Power Nap was limited only to very recent, flash-only machines, but they didn't provide the same clear caveats about AirPlay Mirroring. In fact, providing caveats about certain features but not others arguably lulled us into believing that the features would be generally available.
This is disgusting and dishonest on Mac's part - I downloaded Mountain Lion specifically to get airplay mirroring. It was advertised as part of Mountain Lion with NO MENTION AT ALL that it wouldn't work on older Macs.
Absoutely shameful behaviour.
Wow. As I write this I am already downloading ML. I would not have purchased it if I had known mirroring wouldn't work with my 2009 iMac. As I spent $3,000 on it in '09, I don't think I'll be purchasing a new one now. I am very pleased with Apple's products, but this is a major fail. I am extremely unhappy.
Mountain Lion AirPlay Mirroring (iMac to AppleTV) Not Working
