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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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Sep 30, 2012 2:15 PM in response to jcetheredge

I think this is shocking behaviour. I have so many Apple products now and this has absolutely sickened me. "It just works"- I don't think so. I fully expected the €2300 I spent on a MBP to run all features of Apple's latest OS some 20 odd months later. Several iPods, iPad, Apple TV's, Time Captsule, multiple iPhones and €€€€€'s on music and apps and this is how I am treated? Absolutely disgusted.

Sep 30, 2012 2:24 PM in response to Red_Ant

Oh please, find something worthwhile to be disgusted over.


The Macs that can run AirPort Mirroring use a newer Intel CPU than yours and contains the Quicksync chipset. It is Intelsat invention for workable mirroring on computers as it pushes all graphics operation to the GPU rather than using the CPU. It also works under other names on PCs with the new chipset. The 20 month old machines don't get it.


You can buy AirParrot if you want but read the reviews before you do as there are several issues.


Was Apple supposed to use this new chipset in their computers and then turn off the Quiksync feature? Or give you a free computer so you would have the same hardware?

Sep 30, 2012 2:26 PM in response to Red_Ant

Red_Ant wrote:


I think this is shocking behaviour. I have so many Apple products now and this has absolutely sickened me. "It just works"- I don't think so. I fully expected the €2300 I spent on a MBP to run all features of Apple's latest OS some 20 odd months later. Several iPods, iPad, Apple TV's, Time Captsule, multiple iPhones and €€€€€'s on music and apps and this is how I am treated? Absolutely disgusted.

You really expected that the entire tech world would stop with the new developments until you were ready to pay for them 😁😁😁

Oct 1, 2012 5:21 AM in response to jcetheredge

This is the 2nd time Apple really ****** me of this year. At first i was forced to move OS because of iCloud. I was an early user of the @mac.com service and paid for nearly 3 years for the service, after i have been forced to upgrade to a new os - otherwise i could not use icloud and my old email.


Now i upgraded to ML to use Airplay and my MBP end 2010 is not supported - Are u f**** kidding me?


I have started to use a PC Notebook recently at work again (Lenova X1) and it works like a charm (inc. the track pad). My iPad is out of date and so is my wife's Macbook. One thing is clear - after using apple products for more than 10 years and spending more than USD 18,000 (probably even more) I am no longer willing to spend a single cent on this crap anymore.


What the future holds:

New phone: Samsung

New tablet: Samsung

New Computers: PC


Screw you apple - POS

Mountain Lion AirPlay Mirroring (iMac to AppleTV) Not Working

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