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What's most surprising is Apple's endorsement of eGPUs via Thunderbolt 3 - given only a few months ago Apple seemed to be simply aghast at the concept of extern
by DaiPlusPlus 9y ago
What's most surprising is Apple's endorsement of eGPUs via Thunderbolt 3 - given only a few months ago Apple seemed to be simply aghast at the concept of external GPUs: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/transcript-phil-schiller-craig-federighi-and-john-ternus-on-the-state-of-apples-pro-macs/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/06/transcript-phil-schiller-c...
> Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch): What’s your philosophy on external GPUs?
> Craig Federighi: I think they have a place.
- k-mcgrady 9y agoHow do you get 'aghast' from 'I think they have a place'??
- DaiPlusPlus 9y agoI meant to link to another piece that described how it looked like Apple explicitly disabled eGPU support in TB3 on Macs, instead of merely not-supporting it.
- lowtolerance 9y agoKind of seems like maybe you were adding your own narrative to this, because Federighi's comment doesn't seem anywhere remotely aghast. It's a neutral response, and in hindsight we can see that he just didn't want to give too much away.
- ovao 9y agoHistorically speaking, an Apple executive acknowledging that a product or concept they haven't yet embraced as "having a place" is actually very nearly an endorsement of it.
- snowwrestler 9y agoAghast? They built the Mac Pro entirely around the concept. That's why it shipped with a bunch of Thunderbolt ports but non-replaceable GPUs: because they thought external GPUs would become widely adopted. If they're aghast at anything, it's how wrong they got the pro market. Everyone still wants user-upgradeable internal GPUs.