Would you access your Mac from your iPad?

[thekb]

Wtf is up with the robotic narrator? So lazy these days that a real person couldnt talk about the product?

Dude, that's not cool.

Steven Hawking found a cool new app that let's him use his Mac on his iPad and you go busting him for posting his video.

 

[ddublu]

Dude, that's not cool.

Steven Hawking found a cool new app that let's him use his Mac on his iPad and you go busting him for posting his video.

Wow.....my bad. I honestly didn't know who that was. I thought it was someone taking a shortcut on a review. My sincere apologies to anyone offended including Steven Hawking.

 

[thekb]

Wow.....my bad. I honestly didn't know who that was. I thought it was someone taking a shortcut on a review. My sincere apologies to anyone offended including Steven Hawking.

Sorry ddublu ... I was joking around. I doubt Steven Hawking is wasting his time making these kinds of videos. Should have used a smiley

 

[Zetaprime]

i've tried the following and none have been perfect so far.

splashtop for me was the worst. before the last update it didn't even have scrollable tracking mouse mode which made it useless and cumbersome. its also slow and incredibly cpu intensive on my htpc in comparison to the other vnc servers used by iteleport/teamviewer/etc.

iteleport provided the smoothest performance but unfortunately it doesn't have a windows-compatible viewer client (only server).

teamviewer was also meh. seemed all bloated and cumbersome like splashtop.

logmein at least for the mac is INCREDIBLY buggy and unreliable. sometimes it would just crash my imac after i've been remotely logged in and try to disconnect the logmein connection. just awful. even on my windows machine, after i disconnect from a logmein session, logmein software on that machine crashes. you also can't even disable sound streaming for some reason.

if iteleport had a desktop viewer client for windows i'd probably stick with that.

That's odd. I use Logmein Pro all the time to connect to the Windows computer from my Mac and my iOS devices. It's never crashed on me. It works flawlessly, sound, HD video, etc. Even good enough for games. My biggest beef with Logmein is that they don't have a Mac version of Logmein Ignition. That would make it even more convenient to use and not be dependant on the web broweser.

 

[LadyX]

I already access my Mac and PC from my iPad using Splashtop.

You should have your laptop on and with you at all times when you want to activate Splashtop, right?

 

[suprmario]

You should have your laptop on and with you at all times when you want to activate Splashtop, right?

You do not need to have your Mac/PC with you. with Splashtop, you can enable internet discovery and access your computer anywhere you iPad has WiFi connectivity. You can even put your comp in sleep mode and enable the wake from sleep option in Splashtop.

 

[adddictedtomac]

You do not need to have your Mac/PC with you. with Splashtop, you can enable internet discovery and access your computer anywhere you iPad has WiFi connectivity. You can even put your comp in sleep mode and enable the wake from sleep option in Splashtop.

Thanks, good to know!

 

[dendkmac]

Splashtop works very well on the Mac and in the Windows environment, plus you get sound and can stream videos..sometimes the lip sync is off but it does a credible job and is worth every penny. Long time logmein user...

 

[Dunbar]

The future is the cloud people. Remotely accessing other computers is so last decade

 

[adddictedtomac]

The future is the cloud people. Remotely accessing other computers is so last decade

I think you may have a point here

 

[adddictedtomac]

I use LogMeIn all the time. Pretty reliable service.
Never used anything else, cannot compare.

I think Logmein is slow, and the interface is harder to navigate.

 

[Southern Dad]

I use my iPad and Log Me In to access my MacPro all the time. I can't imagine not having this tool at my fingertips.

 

[adddictedtomac]

I use my iPad and Log Me In to access my MacPro all the time. I can't imagine not having this tool at my fingertips.

Is it fast enough to be able to use it? Some people experience lags....

 

[Southern Dad]

Is it fast enough to be able to use it? Some people experience lags....

Fast enough? If I've forgotten a file or can't find my flash drive, it is a lifesaver. I'm still on a 1st generation iPad so I am sure it could be faster but it is very usable especially when on WiFi.

 

[LadyX]

You do not need to have your Mac/PC with you. with Splashtop, you can enable internet discovery and access your computer anywhere you iPad has WiFi connectivity. You can even put your comp in sleep mode and enable the wake from sleep option in Splashtop.

I have Splashtop 2 on my iPad and have updated the desktop software. When I close the lid of my laptop, Splashtop on my iPad says "connection lost.. reconnecting". I have a MacBook Air. How can I keep my laptop running with the lid closed so that Splashtop on my iPad doesn't lose connection?