Jonathan Malek

Interesting possibility for Windows-to-Mac Remote Desktop

7 Comments to “Interesting possibility for Windows-to-Mac Remote Desktop”

1. 
   Hudson
   October 9, 2009 at 5:11 pm

   http://www.coderebel.com/products/irapp/

   This does just what you want, I tired the demo and its perfect !

   And I am not from the company, I was searching for something to remote control my mac from my PC at work and found it, tried the demo and its great – you do need to setup a redirect host such as http://www.no-ip.com

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     Jonathan
     October 11, 2009 at 7:43 am

     Not sure I agree, Hudson. I tried the demo as well, and the RDP version is unbelievably slow and choppy when doing things like moving a window around the screen. I’ll try the iRAPP client itself next, but what I had been hoping for was a true RDP server that would work as smoothly as it does on Vista or Windows 7.

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2. 
   Van
   July 31, 2010 at 6:24 pm

   Interesting that you think RDP is dramatically better than VNC, I haven’t seen that much difference between the two. Other than they are used in completely different circumstances. VNC is for where you will have a changing pool of machines that need help, setup the single-file UltraVNC server and anyone can grab it, double-click, and you can solve their problem. RDP is for where you have a single machine, or a small number of them, to manage and there isn’t anyone at those machine to launch VNC. You have to go through all the hoops of setting up tunnels or port farwarding to get to the machines, so it’s not worth even considering on an ad hoc basis. Once connected they feel pretty similar.

   Van

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     Jonathan
     August 1, 2010 at 4:12 pm

     Hey Van–not sure I agree that once connected they feel pretty similar. A simple test I ran–watching video across your remote session. That’s simply not possible on VNC, even on my gigabit LAN. Works just fine across RDP. The objective is to get as close to feeling you’re “there” as possible. Why? Well, when I first started looking it was so that I could run mac apps from my main desktop–the few that I’ve found indispensable. Since then, I’ve been spending more and more time on EC2 and GoGRID, with straight development on those remote machines. Lag across that connection is immediately noticeable, and worse, really breaks your concentration. VNC is absolutely unworkable–but across the same connection, to the same machines, RDP makes it feel like the machine is right in front of you.

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3. 
   Zuhaib
   November 30, 2010 at 5:33 am

   Have you tried this? http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client

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4. 
   gzip
   December 21, 2010 at 9:16 pm

   Zuhaib – that one allows you to drive your PC from your Mac – one way only. I’m looking for something that goes in the other direction. I want to run my Mac from my PC

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5. 
   Jorge
   April 18, 2011 at 5:37 am

   Wouldn’t teamviewer work?

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