OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review

Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review by specialist on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @04:19PM (#6594657)

Yes. Add airplay to generic monitors and you've got a solution for enterprises. (Do you know of such a product?)

All of our conference rooms have a wall mounted LCD with a shitty Windows box driving it. Best we can do now is screen sharing with Skype or join.me.

Most of our Mac users just plug into the monitor directly. We'd LOVE to have an untethered solution.

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Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review by untog on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:05PM (#6594975)

We have Mac Minis attached to our TVs. And infuriatingly, you can't use OS X as an AirPlay target, only as a source. I'd love to see that change, but don't see any mention of it in Mavericks.

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Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review by objclxt on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:11PM (#6595011)

> * And infuriatingly, you can't use OS X as an AirPlay target, only as a source*

Have you looked at AirServer? http://www.airserver.com

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Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review by untog on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:23PM (#6595092)

Yeah, we may well end up using it, but it just seems like an annoyance to pay for something like that.

Also, we have an issue with the TV computers not being on the same subnet as wifi'd laptops, so they don't appear through Bonjour. But that's a whole other issue for enterprise that Apple doesn't really touch.

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Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review by rbritton on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @09:52PM (#6596255)

One benefit AirServer has over any of Apple's AirPlay implementations to date is that it supports 1080p rather than just 720p like the Apple TV when receiving data from an iPad or iPhone. I specifically have an Apple TV + AirServer hooked up to a wall-mounted screen instead of an Apple TV just for this reason.

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Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review by jjwiseman on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:15PM (#6595036)

We also have Mac Minis attached to TVs, but we use http://www.airserver.com/ to turn them into AirPlay targets.

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Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review by reznite on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @04:30PM (#6594741)

Apple TV can do this for you.

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Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review by baudehlo on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @08:09PM (#6595907)

But only at 720p. Enough for presentations but terrible as a second monitor.

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Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review by alphakappa on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @04:29PM (#6594738)

You can hook up an AppleTV to a big screen TV (which is typically what conference rooms have)

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Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review by specialist on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @04:35PM (#6594774)

Thanks. I'll pick one up, see what's what. (I don't have TV.)

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