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Q: AirPlay Mirroring Not supported - After downloading OS X Mountain Lion I found out that AirPlay is only Supported for Mid 2011 or newer iMacs - Is there a workaround

I got a new Apple TV for Christmas, I read tha the OS X Mountain Lion supported AirPlay with the Apple TV, so I paid for the OS upgrade. After the upgrade I found out that AirPlay is not supported on iMac's older than mid 2011. This ***** because this was the only reasion I needed the upgrade, It should have been more clearly posted that the features of the new OS were only supported on specific machines!

Short of buying a new iMac is there a way to use Airport Mirroring from my iMac to the TV ?

What other Mountain Lion features don't work on a late 2009 iMac ?

Posted on Jan 3, 2013 7:38 PM

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by uselessSABOTAGE,

uselessSABOTAGE Jan 3, 2013 7:46 PM in response to Canadian User
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Jan 3, 2013 7:46 PM in response to Canadian User

First, if you would have visted http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/ you would have seen there is a VERY LARGE and IN BOLD section that covers what functions of 10.8 are limited to what macs. Second "needed the upgrade"... spare me.

To your, "work around" question a lot of people report a third party app named "air parrot" as pretty reliable. You're welcome to try your luck with that.
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