AirPlay won't work unless you have a 2011 or 2012 Mac. This is highly disappoint...

bluthru · on July 25, 2012

AirPlay requires a GPU that has hardware h.264 encoding. This is so there isn't a performance hit to compress and send video to the AppleTV.

You can download AirParrot if you'd like the functionality to work with a small performance hit.

mortenjorck · on July 25, 2012

Can you at least send arbitrary video from apps to it, e.g. an h.264 video playing in Safari (as you would on iOS)?

agent86 · on July 25, 2012

You might want to check out AirParrot (http://airparrot.com/). I haven't used it myself, but it seems like it might give you the functionality you are looking for.

Synaesthesia · on July 25, 2012

Must be using Intel Quick Sync technology

bvlaar · on July 25, 2012

Must be. I find it strange that my 2010 MBP can't use AirPlay when my iPhone 4 can work fine. Really hope someone comes out with a hack/mod to fool the OS into thinking I have the proper hardware.

mathieuh · on July 25, 2012

The iPhone 4 can't AirPlay Mirror, it can stream audio and video though. The same thing applies with older Macs.

bvlaar · on July 25, 2012

Good point. Thanks for clearing that up

epaga · on July 25, 2012

Awww man, that is a letdown. Airplay was the thing I was most looking forward to in Mountain Lion. I have a late 2010 MBP. :(