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screen sharing is pretty damn cool
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I have to agree. I havve tried it out over a network and over iChat. Its pretty damn cool. Its really useful to, i just cant wait till i have a use for it =D
Girlfriend just bought a MacBook Pro on Friday, and Screen Sharing has proven eminently useful for helping her get things figured out when I'm not around.
Thats a great use. OOH ill be doing that with a couple of my friends soon. THAT is exciting =D
been using vnc on windows and unix and linux for years. old news. but, yes, cool
True, new to use though, and its a bit more user friendly i believe (correct me if im wrong) but it seems anyone could do this, you dont have to have any priot knowlege (except whether or not your computer is capable
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Thats a great use. OOH ill be doing that with a couple of my friends soon. THAT is exciting =D
True, new to use though, and its a bit more user friendly i believe (correct me if im wrong) but it seems anyone could do this, you dont have to have any priot knowlege (except whether or not your computer is capable
Certainly more userfriendly on the front-end. It's using vnc, though, so you can actually share screens to other devices (I even run vnc client on my old treo 650).
Give apple props - unlike MS, they chose not to reinvent the wheel for this.
True, but MS RDP is much faster. Why is that? I always found VNC very slow - on the Mac and Windows.
been using vnc on windows and unix and linux for years. old news. but, yes, cool
Ditto, but this is VNC for the layperson. Click a button and you're done - no IP addresses or firewalls or passwords involved.
drlunanerd said:
Screen-sharing is pretty fast. It uses progressive rendering, so it only redraws the bits of the screen that change. Quite responsive.
Lots of different variants of vnc. I always found tightvnc to be "fast enough."
RDP probably sends less information, like "draw a button with this text at x,y" instead of having to always send bitmaps.
been using vnc on windows and unix and linux for years. old news. but, yes, cool
I've been using it for years on Windows, Linux and Macs, but this is a pretty good implementation. Like Spaces ... I've had virtual desktops for years in all three OSs (using Virtue on my Mac) but Apple's Spaces implementation is the first time I've felt it's been done properly. Sharing is less of a standout compared to standard VNC, but is still done very well for Mac sharing.
I have only one gripe - I shared my screen with a co-worker. He is on a 13" MacBook and Im on A 17" MacBook Pro with two monitors. When you share two monitors its incredibly small. You cant even read the error messages - wish there was a way to zoom in - maybe I missed it though....