Video Walkthrough of AirPlay and Other Features in OS X Mountain Lion

[MacRumors]

Earlier today, Apple announced the developer preview for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. OS X 10.8 offers a number of new features we've detailed before.

InsanelyGreatMac has put together this nice walkthrough video of OS X AirPlay mirroring. That feature allows you to transmit your OS X desktop onto your Apple TV over Wi-Fi:

There's more discussion on OS X Mountain Lion in our forums.

Article Link: Video Walkthrough of AirPlay and Other Features in OS X Mountain Lion

 

[Taeser]

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This mirroring is a sweet feature. I hope it works flawlessly.

 

[MacAddict2000]

I'm digging everything except the fat tabs in Safari.
I hate it on the iPad and I definitely hate it here.

 

[tambourine-man]

I cannot wait for mountain lion. this summer is shaping up to be a good one with this, possible iPhone 5 and possible iOS 6 right?

 

[LFMNX]

Was the TV an Apple device or just an Apple sticker logo and ATV2 plugged in ?

 

[johto]

Was the TV an Apple device or just an Apple sticker logo and ATV2 plugged in ?

imac

 

[Ddyracer]

But is it faster and more stable than lion? That is the question.

 

[Joshwawilson]

I can't wait to get my own Mac!

 

[YeahBuddy]

I'm definitely gonna buy a Macbook Air this summer so that I can use this AirPlay feature. That along with being able to use AirDrop with my iMac is gonna present a lot of great oppurtunities.

 

[Agent-P]

Airplay mirroring from my Mac is what I'm looking most forward to. Shame that iCal is being rebranded to Calendar. I much prefer the name iCal.

 

[BlueParadox]

One of the main reasons I bought the Apple TV 2: AIRPLAY

To soon be able to stream/AirPlay one's computer desktop to one's TV is going to be a sweet interaction indeed! This will get around some of the video incompatibilities encountered with the iDevices, such as the iPad.

(My wife likes to watch missed TV show posted on a TV's website, but some networks still post video in the 'archaic' Flash format!).

And no need to convert non-iTunes compatible video formats such as DivX and MKV into the AppleTV readable version - simply mirror directly from the computer.

Great stuff.

Very happy!!

 

[Lara F]

Looked good, but I'd have to make sure there's no quality degradation before replacing my Mac Mini with an ATV (and putting the profit towards the next iPhone). Fingers crossed!

 

[ugp]

I am very pleased with how the AirPlay works. That is what I am looking forward to most.

 

[strabes]

Desktop Airplay mirroring = hulu (and avi, mkv, etc) on apple TV without having to jailbreak and install XBMC and the hulu add-on!

 

[iMikeT]

And so it begins....

The seamless Apple experience on every electronic device you own.

 

[SuperCachetes]

Want the new desktop background picture, like now.

Notification center has promise. Goodbye, Growl.

 

[arn]

Want the new desktop background picture, like now.

Notification center has promise. Goodbye, Growl.

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/14331598/

 

[SuperCachetes]

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/14331598/

Thanks Arn, but I only meant "now" as a figure of speech...

(And yes sir, I will do a search next time. I hadn't thought to look.)

 

[harley3k]

Was the TV an Apple device or just an Apple sticker logo and ATV2 plugged in ?

I was wondering the same thing. It looks like an iMac. Their displays don't have that big of a base with an apple logo. I didn't think these things had hdmi inputs for an appletv to connect to.

He's probably running software to make the mac appear as an appletv on the network.

 

[wikus]

I hope theres an option to turn off versions and more importantly:

an option to ungroup application windows in mission control while showing all other application windows. bring back expose.

 

[kigrsmchugh]

Hey

First time posting on these forums after months of reading. Airplay Question: with the update should we be able to mirror the video of Hbogo/ESPn3 from my mac to my apple tv? right now you can only get the audio through mirroring from those sites from an iPhone/ipad.

thanks

 

[slicecom]

Search in the address bar, finally!

 

[evansls]

Desktop mirroring to Apple TV 2 available today with airparrot

if you're interested in the desktop mirroring to your apple tv 2, check out http://www.airparrot.com

Mountain Lion will require a second-generation Intel Core mac while AirParrot works on 10.6 and 10.7 regardless and it's available right now.

You can watch a demo/review I made about it here:
http://youtu.be/S-Tse43lLLE

*note: audio syncing coming in a future update.

- evan

 

[Macs In LA]

Address Book & iCal

Please make Address Book look and function better in Mountain Lion. The Lion versions suck bad. Flipping pages for Groups is horrible, and the Disney Wild West aesthetic to iCal is the most un-Apple Apple design ever. Perhaps at least give us a few skins to pick from... but I'll setting for better function and layout of Address Book. Please.

 

[mrwulff]

anybody know how to enable airplay?