Q: Mountain Lion AirPlay Mirroring (iMac to AppleTV) Not Working

I upgraded specifically for the Airplay feature; none of the other features are worth $20, especially since I upgraded for $30 just a year ago.  I also bought an Apple TV after the Mountain Lion announcement, preparing for MLs release and upgrade.

After upgrading today researching this "issue" when I didn't see the Airplay feature take effects, I was directed to the text on the upgrade page that states which Apple computers will be able to use Airplay.  Airplay was sold as one of the big features of the upgrades - Apple previewed it during their event and it's highlighted on the OS X page on the website.  So, why would a feature that benefits only a small percentage of usersbe trumpeted as a main feature? 

Apple's big pull is that it just works.  Plug it in.  Setup is easy. It doesn't crash.  You don't have to worry.  Well, this upgrade just doesn't work.  For the first time - and I've had 6 iPods, a Powerbook, an iMac, 2 iPhones, and turned my family into Mac users - I feel completely duped by Apple.

This is deceptive marketing at it's best. 

I certainly am going to demand my money back.  And I have no problem downgrading my OS back to Lion. 

Heck, now I remember how furious I was after upgrading to Lion that I lost the ability to run PowerPC applications (which was supported by the Rosetta feature).  I'll just add this $20 onto losing the use of $1500 worth of applications in my last upgrade.

There is a real trend toward customers abuse lately and hot poker methods to force hardware upgrades.

17” inch Macbook Pro has been killed, used by the audio/video professionals.

Social networking has become the issue, not work!

More consumers needed ...

Airplay mirroring only for the latest hardware.
More consumers needed …

Icrap has got me too!

I am upset about this too. This was the one thing I was really looking forward to. Big Apple fan here, but this is disapointing. I have a late 2009 iMac which works perfectly with 12GB RAM, there is no reason for this functionality to not work on this machine.

Not fair....

I find it hard to belive that this Imac can not do desktop airplay. it was my Number 1 reson for getting this ML

Specs are Core I7 with a Ati Radeon 4850.

Why is it I can use AirPlay on my 2009 macbook In iTunes without any compromise in performance but I can't use AirPlay mirroring?

me, too. mid-2010 iMac can't handle this? very disappointing.

I'm the same.  First time posting, long time apple fan, and now so very disappointed in not having AirPlay Mirroring on my mid 2010 mbp. 

Yeah, and don't forget that the last update we paid for them to remove features that made the remote useless. All this on top of the 4g debacle makes apple look very dishonest. Not a happy customer.

Ive been waitng for this Air-Play Mirroring update for a long time now. Im very dissapointed. U mean to tell me that i cant have this on my MacBook? This needs to be fixed.

Beside the fact that I am very annoyed because my 3-yr old iMac and 1.5 yr old MBA are "obsolete" (the first time I bought an Apple product, the Apple guy at the store said "Good thing about Apple, 5 years from now, your system still works like brand new", uh..., not really), there is nothing wrong to exclude certain software features due to hardware requirement.

The problem is that, for AirPlay Mirroring being one of the major, if not the major feature, Apple should have emphasized more about the hardware requirement. Put it in bigger and bold font, so people don't have to waste their time and money.

To me, I am done with Apple. They make good products I admit, but no company/products that good they deserve such loyalty Apple gets.

WOW! I have been spending hours trying to figure out how to get the mirrored display to work, only to come upon this thread. If this is true, Apple needs to refund my upgrade because no where on their OS X Mountain Lion website does it denote that requirement. What a bunch of sheisters!

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Well that was a waste of 20 bucks. I even checked the specs to see if my mini could upgrade to Mt Lion.  I missed that the key feature I was looking forward to wouldn't work on my mini.  Back to running Windows on it.   Luckily I still have the receipt for the Apple TV.

This is not like apple, VERY dissappointed too

Wow i hae a mid 2010 macbook pro and an early 2011 macbook pro... none of these can use airplay mirroring... are you kidding me apple? Refund me my money! The other features are useless to me. For the first time im so ****** at apple. It can be done make it happen!

Just to ad to my troubles I contacted Apple to request a refund - they couldnt care less and said they could do nothing.  The person I spoke to was no help at all - once they get your money that's it, you're screwed.