30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes

Re:30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes by karolist on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:46AM (#4289851)

AirPlay mirroring sounds nice. Could it be used to show Photoshop canvas on an iPad when drawing with wacom?

I was thinking of buying an app for this, but if Mountain Lion does that I might hold off till I upgrade.

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Re:30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes by ryannielsen on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @03:51AM (#4289862)

Out of the box (so to speak), AirPlay mirroring only supports traditional AirPlay destinations, e.g. AppleTVs. I'm pretty sure you'll still want to pick up that app which makes an iPad an AirPlay destination.

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Re:30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes by julien_p on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @04:43AM (#4289993)

Also keep in mind that AirPlay mirroring requires at least a Sandybridge CPU, so you need a mac released in 2011 or later.

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Re:30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes by kogir on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:02AM (#4290047)

Can you cite a source for that? Experience suggests that is not the case.

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Re:30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes by julien_p on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @07:08AM (#4290321)

http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/ lists the following macs as supporing AirPlay

  * iMac (Mid 2011 or newer)
  * Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer)
  * MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer)
  * MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer)

I remember reading that AirPlay mirroring uses the video encoding capabilities of SandyBridge CPUs, but I can't find a source for that now. Anecdotally, http://airparrot.com really taxes my 2010 MacBook's CPU.

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Re:30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes by kogir on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @01:15PM (#4291925)

Strange, because it's working great on my 2008 unibody Macbook Pro with Core 2 Duo.

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Re:30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes by pooriaazimi on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @05:11AM (#4290078)

Searching "airplay mirroring mountain sandy bridge" suggests otherwise.

http://www.google.com/search?q=airplay+mirroring+mountain+sa...

http://www.mindofthegeek.com/2012/07/05/airplay-mirroring-in...

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