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		__alexs on June 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook This is of course nonsense because GPUs in Thunderbolt enclosures work fine. The problem is more likely that the SoC does not have a sufficiently good PCI-E implementation much like the RPi and other ARM SoCs.

billyhoffman on June 29, 2023 [–]

Do they? While eGPUs were a thing for Intel macs, I don’t know if any external GPUs they could be used for graphics with Apple silicon, even in a thunderbolt enclosure.

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