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Comment by andrewmcwatters | Hacker News Reader

It is surprisingly slow, though. Like, awfully slow. There's a very noticeable latency that's unacceptable for a local device sitting right next to the computer.

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Apple has been doing low latency screen mirroring for, I don’t know, a decade. If you find the latency unacceptable, consider looking into your network performance.

Ahhh "you're holding it wrong" argument

As someone who dislikes the “you’re holding it wrong” argument, I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. Your network latency is outside of Apple’s control.

Great way to tell you have low standard and can't detect latency. The same thing has been said about the iPad Mirroring, expect it's effectively unusable for anyone half serious if you don't use the wired mode.

For a quick tech demo, it's all fun and games, but when there is real shit to do, nobody wants to fight their tools.

fix your network. i send a display to my ipad to run audio mixing in realtime for work. 30fps, but more importantly consistent pen input for control. been doing this for 3+ years regularly

Nothing to do with my network, it has disappointing latency for drawing applications (it's not just about the theoretical latency of input, you have to consider the whole chain, with translation to softwares). Pretty much every pro reviewer has said has much.

I can see why it is completely fine for your application but you can't say the same for other applications.

Besides it doesn't even make much sense to need that when the thing has such a powerful processor, Apple need to get their shit together and have it run real Mac software and that's it.

you're right. 11.32ms of latency might be untenable for some use cases.

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