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Apple Releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 With eGPU Support, Business Chat in Messages, and More

This was the first time a macOS istallation rebooted the machine I think six times while installing, but in the end everything is working as it should. Actually better than on 10.13.3, since Time Machine backups over WIFI are working again as they should. I had some trouble with them before, but now they're back on track.

So far so good.
 
Really really nice to see eGPU support. Now if Apple would support Vulkan as well it might actually be possible to have some great native gaming experiences.

There’s so reason Metal and Vulkan can’t happily coexist.
 
opeter said:
I have one question: if you did buy some apps in the Mac AppStore in the past, that doesn't have or will have 64-bit versions, will these be deleted? How can someone make a backup copy of these?
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I believe you keep them but they won’t launch. You could always run an earlier version of MacOS in a virtual machine to use them.
 
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imom said:
I believe this image is named 'ink cloud', not 'smoke cloud'
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If you're using an external monitor this Inkcloud image requires a high contrast screen otherwise it looks terrible - the worst desktop background image Apple has ever created. The high contrast screens Apple is using disguises 'some' (you can still see a little) of the banding that occurs around the edges of the cloud. On a screen with less contrast it's really bad, stripes, banding, stripes.

Also noticed that the close up wildlife image of the Lion in the Desktop Images folder suffers from out of focus camera movement. The lens was probably something like 600mm and the camera movement at that distance is hard to control.
 
Pacman72 said:
This update will break displaylink if you use it for your docking station and external monitors it has done since the fist beta came out and remained that way through all 7 Beta updates I would expect no change with this General Release
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Sigh. Explains why my 2 external displays haven't come back on. :/
 
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zorinlynx said:
This has been the case for a LONG time. Nvidia's drivers for MacOS have always been third-rate. It sucks because the GPUs themselves are decent; it's just that either Apple or Nvidia (or both) just can't write good MacOS drivers for them.

I've had three desktop Macs with GPUs and the only ones that have had graphical glitches and performance issues have been the Nvidia-based ones. AMD or Intel GPUs are the way to go with MacOS, period. These issues date back to 2006, too, which is why it's so maddening that Nvidia drivers are STILL not sorted out on MacOS. Twelve years.

- 2006 Mac Pro (came with an Nvidia 7300GT, absolutely garbage and glitchy. Radeon X1900XT and later 3750 GPU swaps fixed it)
- 2012 iMac with Nvidia GT 650M. Mostly stable but performance was lacking. Would crash in some games that exercise the GPU. Had all kinds of problems with High Sierra.
- 2015 iMac with AMD Radeon R9 M395. Absolutely perfect GPU performance. No issues at all.

I'm going to make every effort I can to never buy a Mac with an Nvidia GPU again. Lesson learned!
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I agree, experienced their suckiness firsthand with my Mac Pro. 650Ti, 660, 1060, all glitchy in macOS. It's a shame. They're very fast and cheap cards for graphics and gaming if you're running Windows, and they're useful for machine learning in Linux using CUDA (AMD cards are useless for popular libs like PyTorch and TensorFlow).
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JosephAW said:
Yeah wallpaper! What about iMessages in cloud? Maybe that will be a 64 bit only like iOS 11.
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Sshh. Just let them fix the message ordering first. One thing at a time. ;)
 
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failed update on 2012 rMBP. system is relatively fresh (few months old).

now everytime it reboots it boots into "Failed to install macOS" and i have to hold option when booting to get to my 10.3.3 system.
 
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hghunter said:
No hack was used with 10.13.3 to get my Akitio node eGPU to work. I just plugged it in and the RX 580 card was recognized by the Mac. It just gave a pop up message saying to logout and log back in to use the eGPU. 10.13.4 sees the Akitio node, but does not recognize the GPU.
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Any luck with the Node? I have one lying around waiting till I get a new MBP at some point in the future.
 
10.13.4 doesn't show up in software updates on my 2015 MBP. (on 10.13.3)
I don't use betas.
Any idea how to fix this?
 
My Safari window grows vertically each time to open it until it fills the screen since this update. Quite annoying.
 
There was a time when updating/upgrading meant new and better features. Now its means "prepare for bugs, malfunctions, crashes, and broken software". This is not Apple only.

eGPU is great if it was plug and play. There is so much compatiblity issues. Yes I would like to run intensive software on my macbook without it burning and fans screaming.
 
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macpanzer said:
since the update, Safari window has started to increase its size each time when opening... :S
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wubsylol said:
My Safari window grows vertically each time to open it until it fills the screen since this update. Quite annoying.
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It's the same for me. Probably, one of the most annoying bugs ever. It's ridiculous, this update supposed to fix things not break even more!
 
haruhiko said:
That MacBook is slower than an iPhone, you shouldn't expect good performance and shouldn't install new OS right from the start. Now should be a good time to update.
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Update?
It's a maxed out Macbook from less than 2 years ago.
I know 12" Macbook is not fast but I replaced my Macbook Pro with it because the form factor,size,weight is perfect.
it's pretty much like an iPad and so convinient to carry and use.
The point is,it's working fine with El Capitan but very slow with High Sierra and Apple should not release it for these machines when there is such a performance hit.
 
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deanthedev said:
At who? Apple for requiring 64bit, or to the lazy developer who hasn't updated yet?
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I thought that DVD Player was an Apple App that came with MacOS ?
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opeter said:
I have one question: if you did buy some apps in the Mac AppStore in the past, that doesn't have or will have 64-bit versions, will these be deleted? How can someone make a backup copy of these?
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The easy solution is not upgrade to 10.14 when it's released. I plan on staying on 10.13.
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Ploki said:
now everytime it reboots it boots into "Failed to install macOS" and i have to hold option when booting to get to my 10.3.3 system.
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Did you mean 10.13.3 ?
 
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