This is one of my biggest feature requests for Apple. I want a tiny little laptop with an integrated GPU when I'm on the road. But when I'm home I also want to be able to run simulations, play games on a big screen & do VR. And for that I want a desktop class GPU when I'm at home. And I want that GPU to be upgradable - CPU speed isn't improving anywhere near as fast as GPU speed, so it makes sense to keep the rest of my system across multiple GPU generations.
The laptops are already there. The RAM fiasco aside, the current laptops are fine little machines. And with thunderbolt 3 they should have no problem supporting external GPUs.
All thats missing is an official apple egpu enclosure and software support! People on the internet have already gotten them working via injecting kexts into the kernel. But first party support would make the whole thing way better, and way more stable. C'mon apple! We're so close! Take my money!
They'd probably lean towards just selling the egpu with gpu included rather than just the shell. Seems more in line wit the company. They don't want people using untested hardware I am guessing. It's bad for brand image or whatever. I figure that's the same reason they don't just sell OSX licenses on their own. They want to know the hardware and software will work well together. Even then, and even with a markup, I think mac users would be pretty happy with at least having that option.
This is one of my biggest feature requests for Apple. I want a tiny little laptop with an integrated GPU when I'm on the road. But when I'm home I also want to be able to run simulations, play games on a big screen & do VR. And for that I want a desktop class GPU when I'm at home. And I want that GPU to be upgradable - CPU speed isn't improving anywhere near as fast as GPU speed, so it makes sense to keep the rest of my system across multiple GPU generations.
The laptops are already there. The RAM fiasco aside, the current laptops are fine little machines. And with thunderbolt 3 they should have no problem supporting external GPUs.
All thats missing is an official apple egpu enclosure and software support! People on the internet have already gotten them working via injecting kexts into the kernel. But first party support would make the whole thing way better, and way more stable. C'mon apple! We're so close! Take my money!