I'm still on Sierra, but for other reasons as well. One of the other reasons is that High Sierra drops support for exFAT and FAT32, which makes it impossible to use external hard drives and flash drives to transfer files between Macs and PCs.
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Cannot confirm this. I just put a FAT32 USB Stick in a USB port. It mounts as normal in High Sierra. Can also write on it.
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I don't know what tell you. I've tried FAT32 drives on two Macs running High Sierra, but they couldn't read from them.
I'm using SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3 sticks with no issues. However I had major issues with the USB 3 version of Kingston sticks, write speed was some Kb/Sec. Maybe it's depending on the controller chip of the drive?
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Can you tell me how did you make your egpu (nvidia) running on HSierra?
thank you.
So, it solves all the problems? Like Tb1/tb2 + nvidia cards + internal display enable?
Providing graphical acceleration to applications displayed on the internal display has never been an issue. The tricky bit is telling your software which GPU to use. Some professional applications have user friendly GPU selection as a config option of some sort, but most use the default GPU. In Sierra/High Sierra the default GPU is 'whichever GPU the display I started on is most directly connected to.'
Thank you for that.
Do you think worth buying a late 2013 retina mbp 15" + 1050ti ? I'll use it for my 3d work (gpu rendering). Mostly vray/redshift/octane.
Something about $1.100 (US dollars) on the mbp + around 230 on the 1050 ti + 375 on the enclosure (taxes here sucks).
I have HS and not only can I read and write to FAT and EXFAT drives, I can erase and format drives using those standards in Disk Utility.
Regarding Nvidia cards here is a good list with all drivers: http://www.macvidcards.com/drivers.html
First Kepler cards (e.g. GTX 680) are supported in 10.8.5 and above.
Second generation Kepler cards in 10.9.2 and above.
Maxwell cards in 10.10 and above, Pascal cards in 10.12.4 and above.
Thx, do I get any benefit if install the:
I mean compatibility/features and performance?
- 10.6.8 256.02.25f01
I mean compatibility/features and performance?
New in Release 256.02.25f01:
GeForce 300M series:
GT 330M, GT 320M
GeForce 200 series:
GTX 285 for Mac
GeForce 100 series:
GT 120
GeForce 9M series:
9400M
GeForce 8 series:
8800 GT
GeForce 8M series:
8800M GTS, 8800M GS
Quadro series:
4000 for Mac
Quadro FX series:
FX 5600, FX 4800 for Mac
- This driver update is required if upgrading to the latest Mac OS X v10.6.8.
- Contains performance improvements for a wide range of applications
- Contains fixes for several corruption and crash bugs, including issues with Autodesk Mudbox, and World of Warcraft.
- Contains support for display rotation.
- Adds Driver Archive/Restore Functionality.
GeForce 300M series:
GT 330M, GT 320M
GeForce 200 series:
GTX 285 for Mac
GeForce 100 series:
GT 120
GeForce 9M series:
9400M
GeForce 8 series:
8800 GT
GeForce 8M series:
8800M GTS, 8800M GS
Quadro series:
4000 for Mac
Quadro FX series:
FX 5600, FX 4800 for Mac