Desktop Transporter Help
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reserved. 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.