Not possible really. MacOS has terrible remote desktop software which is really laggy and generally crap even on gigabit FTTH.
They all seem to be based off VNC, instead of something closer to Windows RDP which seems to be a lot smarter in how it sends it over (I cannot notice I'm on RDP most of the time). It also has loads more features (for example, it can change resolution dynamically as you go into full screen instead of being static), handles audio well, etc.
I could be wrong on this - would be interested to hear if anyone has had a better experience.
I wouldn't agree. I often connect to my GF's Macbook to help her out with a code or something like that. You can't watch a video but it is phenomenal to work together on the same thing because it's very easy to connect and has a phenomenal audio link that it feels like you are in the same room. There's almost nothing to mess up, unlike the 3rd party conferencing and desktop sharing software that every time someone is not getting the sound/can't share the desktop/can't unmute the mic.
BTW where I live currently, 4Mbps upstream is considered good and the remote desktop works fine on this connection.
This is what I mean though. You can't watch a video. This works flawlessly on RDP on Windows (will be a little compressed if you are on lower bandwidth). It's a fairly major problem if you're using it as your primary machine.
Have you tried RDP? It is miles ahead of anything else I've seen.
What if you use the system as your only computer, using other devices as thin clients? Windows/Linux has tons of different ways to optimize for this (RDP with acceleration, Citrix, LTSP/X forwarding), whereas the Mac doesn’t. Which is fair, Apple didn’t design the OS to be used that way, but it’s an annoying drawback.
I assume the difference will be more prominent if you go into other applications such as cloud gaming.
As an addendum, I ran Cyberpunk on my beaten down 4 year old ThinkPad 420 via an EC2 instance (specifically to test out the hypothesis) and it was faster than my usual usage on it.
I don't think so, but I could be wrong. RDP on windows is accelerated (uses the clients graphics card) which makes it much more faster than VNC. VNC just basically sends a load of images of the screen in quick succession. It doesn't know really anything about the contents of them.
They all seem to be based off VNC, instead of something closer to Windows RDP which seems to be a lot smarter in how it sends it over (I cannot notice I'm on RDP most of the time). It also has loads more features (for example, it can change resolution dynamically as you go into full screen instead of being static), handles audio well, etc.
I could be wrong on this - would be interested to hear if anyone has had a better experience.