Desktop Transporter Help
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Requirements and compatibility
Desktop Transporter requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later, but MacOS X 10.3 is recommended for best performance. Desktop Transporter is also compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. It is currently not compatible with any other remote desktop solutions available for Mac OS X, such as Apple Remote Desktop or VNC. VNC compatibility is planned for a future version (though no promises are made in this regard!).

In addition, you should have a reasonably fast Mac, and a good network connection between the Macs connecting to the shared displays. To illustrate the necessity of a fast network, a display running at 1024x768 in millions of colors takes 3 mb to store. Normally, the entire display isn’t all updated at once, but even so, the bandwidth requirements per second tend to approach 0.5-1.0 mb/s. As a consequence, for best performance, the Macs should be on the same LAN. You can use Desktop Transporter on a wireless network, but you should consider reducing the quality of the shared displays in order to reduce network load. (For more info on optimizing Desktop Transporter’s performance, follow this link.)

Desktop Transporter doesn’t require a lot of RAM. It typically consumes somewhere between 5 and 20 mb, depending on the number of displays you are connected to. Sharing one or several displays is usually not particularly RAM-hungry.


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