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You are vastly underestimating the amount of work that would be required to support Thunderbolt GPUs on OS X. Its lack of support has nothing to do with any nef
by mwfunk 12y ago
You are vastly underestimating the amount of work that would be required to support Thunderbolt GPUs on OS X. Its lack of support has nothing to do with any nefarious plot to make people buy more computers. Hot-pluggable GPUs are a Hard Problem and the alternative (requiring anything with a GPU to remain connected while the OS is up, and requiring a reboot if somebody wants to connect such a device) isn't worth doing, at least not for them it's not.
- MWil 12y agosearching Youtube for "egpu" pulls up a ton of Macs...
- nailer 12y agoI understand support eGPUs on OS X a lot of work, but you misunderstand my position: I don't care if that work happens or not: I'm quite happy using Windows / SteamOS for games.
- ChikkaChiChi 12y agoSource for your claim that it's not worth it for "them" to do? I'd counter by arguing that the computer brand that still to this day laymen consider "better for graphics" would find value in supporting a spec that's very unveiling discussed the possibility of external GPUs.