Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review
by fourmii on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:44PM
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Apple TV with Airplay in theory is awesome for presentations. I've setup Apple TV on a bunch of LED screens for a client, with the intention of using Airplay for displaying presentations from Macbooks.
So far, the solution has been close to useless. The lag is unbearable, even for simply actions like changing webpages and PPT pages. In the end, users end up going back to HDMI or even Thunderbolt to DVI/VGA connectors for presentations.
To make it worse, it seems that different versions of OS X will give a variety of glitchy behavior on Airplay.
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Re:OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review
by swift on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @06:45PM
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This probably has something to do with your network setup. I've been able to get the lag down sufficiently that some games are playable, though I'd never recommend playing a twitch-based FPS over Airplay.
For me what really made a difference was to ensure that only the laptop was connected to my network via wifi. My Apple TV is connected using ethernet. Before I made that change, I experienced significant lag, but now the lag is perceptible but pretty low.
YMMV, of course.