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avalys

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Jun 4, 2004
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I have three Apple Silicon laptops in my office - a 16" M1 Max Macbook Pro, a 14" M2 Pro Macbook Pro, and a M2 Macbook Air. I have been playing with using them with the Vision Pro's display mirroring / virtual screen functionality (or whatever it's called).

The two MacBook Pros have excellent performance when using the Vision Pro - essentially no latency and almost as usable as a normal monitor or the built-in display.

However, the Macbook Air has noticeable lag, even when just moving the mouse cursor, but particularly when moving windows around and full-screen animations (like Mission Control).

I've seen people reporting different results with the Mac virtual display. I wonder if hardware differences in the CPUs are responsible for these differences?
 
All the heavy lifting of the virtual display is done on the Mac you are connecting to. It is preparing a 4K livestream with compression using the AirPlay protocol. Doesn’t surprise me that there is a difference in performance depending on your source device.
 
I still can't get any of my Macs to show up on Virtual Display.

M2 MBA
M1 Studio Max Mac

So far very disappointed.
I wanted to use it more for Mac than a pair of iPads in my eyes.
 
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