AirParrot – Older Macs Can Now AirPlay Too
T_GAAP’s E. Werner Reschke says he bought his relatively modern Mac in the Spring of 2011 – a late model 2010 MacBook Air that lacks a few features the newer MacBook Airs currently sport: back-lit keyboard, new Intel iCore-series processors and a limit of only 4GB of RAM. But one feature it lacks has bothered Reschke in particular since the day Apple released OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: his MacBook Air can’t use Airplay, which, according to Apple, only works when running Mountain Lion if you’re running:
2nd Generation or newer AppleTV
iMac (Mid 2011 or newer)
Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer)
MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer)
MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer)
So if you’re like him, you’re out of luck, and that’s a lot of Mac users. Reschke says he hunted around to find a workaround, and ran into a suggestion to try a cool product called AirParrot that magically lets you do what Apple wasn’t able to do (supposedly due to Intel vs Hollywood DRM issues) with your older Mac – use Airplay to mirror your monitor through AppleTV. AirParrot costs $10,but there is a free 20 minute trial
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