Airplay Not Working for i3 Processors

[j4mbo]

How do we know if our laptops can handle it? I can't remember at all when I bought mine.

Is there a setting we can check?

 

[beeblebrox00]

How do we know if our laptops can handle it? I can't remember at all when I bought mine.

Is there a setting we can check?

you can go to the apple icon in top right and click on about this mac and then click on more info and it will tell you when the mac was made. i.e. early 2011 for mine. Which i believe is the cut off, so luckily i can do mirroring


you can also open settings and go to displays. if you mac supports mirroring it will have an option listed in the bottom section of the box

 

[ljonesj]

i am using a trail of airparrot right now on my macbook pro 13 2010 model and its handling it perfect streaming my itunes the cpu is about 50% use and the temp is at 66 C with smcfancontrol running on 4000rpm for the fan

 

[Alameda]

Agreed, this is lame. Nothing on this product page about it. One of the main reasons I upgraded, and it won't work on my MBP or my Mini. Really makes no sense to me -- if an iPad can do it, surely a fairly recent MBP should have enough processing power (and it's not just the i3 -- this is an i5).

H.264 compression in real-time is a mammoth task, possible only with dedicated CPU instructions and hardware units. Apple probably could have made it work on your hardware, but maybe gaming performance or heat was unacceptable to them, or maybe they just didn't have the time to do all of the optimizations for the different GPU.