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Yep! As long as each PC is setup with all the necessary drivers and such its all plug and play. No issues with just ripping the cable out of my MacBook without

Yep! As long as each PC is setup with all the necessary drivers and such its all plug and play. No issues with just ripping the cable out of my MacBook without "undocking" anything. It just reverts to the internal display without issues. I kind of wish there were manual/dumb TB3 switches for this sort of thing but I have not seen any.

benfrain 6y ago
Fantastic, thanks for the clarification. I'll be swapping Macbook Pro (work) for Mac Mini (personal) so this could be the way forward. Thanks.
- muro 6y ago
  If you are getting one of the new M1 based mac minis, eGPU doesn't work.
benfrain 6y ago
One more question — those magnetic connections, can it connect both ways? What I mean it, cable running away in either direction or is it orientation specific?
- gehwartzen 6y ago
  Just tested for you. Yep! It works plugged in either direction.
js2 6y ago
You're not ejecting the external SSD before disconnecting? I have a TB2 dock which I connect to using Apple's TB3 to TB2 adapter. I keep my Time Machine backup drive connected to the dock (along with 4K monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers). If I don't eject the drive before disconnecting from the dock, macOS complains about disconnecting the drive without ejecting it first.
- gehwartzen 6y ago
  Yeah. This is probably not the best thing to do and I do get the warning about not having disconnected the gpu and ssd properly but Ive never once experienced an actual problem from doing so (hundreds of times). No corrupted data or anything. But the SSD is mainly for photos/videos not time machine backups.
  - FireBeyond 6y ago
    Check out Jettison.
    - gehwartzen 6y ago
      Nice. Thanks!
- FireBeyond 6y ago
  I ended up buying Jettison (https://stclairsoft.com/Jettison/ https://stclairsoft.com/Jettison/) to handle auto ejecting on sleep and remounting on wake (in particular, I have a PCIe SSD in my Mac Pro which macOS considers an external drive, rightly so, but still).
  - mperham 6y ago
    How is this not built into macOS already? It's literally "on sleep, flush and unmount".

benfrain 6y ago

Fantastic, thanks for the clarification. I'll be swapping Macbook Pro (work) for Mac Mini (personal) so this could be the way forward. Thanks.

muro 6y ago
If you are getting one of the new M1 based mac minis, eGPU doesn't work.

benfrain 6y ago

One more question — those magnetic connections, can it connect both ways? What I mean it, cable running away in either direction or is it orientation specific?

gehwartzen 6y ago
Just tested for you. Yep! It works plugged in either direction.

js2 6y ago

You're not ejecting the external SSD before disconnecting? I have a TB2 dock which I connect to using Apple's TB3 to TB2 adapter. I keep my Time Machine backup drive connected to the dock (along with 4K monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers). If I don't eject the drive before disconnecting from the dock, macOS complains about disconnecting the drive without ejecting it first.

gehwartzen 6y ago
Yeah. This is probably not the best thing to do and I do get the warning about not having disconnected the gpu and ssd properly but Ive never once experienced an actual problem from doing so (hundreds of times). No corrupted data or anything. But the SSD is mainly for photos/videos not time machine backups.
- FireBeyond 6y ago
  Check out Jettison.
  - gehwartzen 6y ago
    Nice. Thanks!
FireBeyond 6y ago
I ended up buying Jettison (https://stclairsoft.com/Jettison/ https://stclairsoft.com/Jettison/) to handle auto ejecting on sleep and remounting on wake (in particular, I have a PCIe SSD in my Mac Pro which macOS considers an external drive, rightly so, but still).
- mperham 6y ago
  How is this not built into macOS already? It's literally "on sleep, flush and unmount".