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Apple's $1,199 Blackmagic eGPU Pro Now Available for Purchase, Delivers Mid-January
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Juli, why do you call this "Apple's new Blackmagic eGPU Pro"? As several readers have already commented here, this is not an Apple product.
Twaddle. There are several cheaper eGPU solutions available, as has been pointed out here already.
This is not an apple product kinda like LG UltraFine, which is only available through apple stores and through Apple distributors?
I know that LG UltraFine cannot be purchased through LG distributors, not sure about Blackmagic.
My RTX2080 and 5ghz 8700k agree.
That would be great if I could plug it into my 5K LG, but I can’t. Zero graphics cards output a thunderbolt 3 signal.
300$ thunderbolt 3 dock,
400$ GPU
300$ external eGPU case (cheapest of this power is 300$)
which leaves 200$ of unexplained cost.
200$ premium is nothing new for BlackMagic stuff, they were always expensive for anyone familiar with them.
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holy smokes, its 1,359€ in europe.
I can get Razer Core X for 339€ and Vega 64 for 360€... which is half that. sheesh.
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A case where you cannot upgrade internal videocard.
for example, every Mac for sale right now.
This is primarily designed for people who value having a light laptop on the go, with a powerful GPU at home for them to hook up a high-res monitor, and run GPU-hungry applications. If you could just include a better GPU in the computer, people would naturally rather do that. Certainly costs less.
Why not switch now and find happiness? It will take a wee bit of courage, though. Up for it?
Utter nonsense. One can build (or just buy) a quiet and well-cooled tower that houses all the necessary parts. It's not as if Blackmagic has a monopoly on building silent GPU-cases. Talking about hot noisy computers, how about those Macbook Pro's?
It doesn’t seem to be that useful now, let alone in a few years. It seems you can only benefit from it in a few applications, and some of them require that you have an external display connected to benefit from it.
And no, it’s not upgradeable.
You cant upgrade GPU in any Mac that's for sale.
Except the Mac Pro 2013 (still for sale), All of them have the GPU chips soldered in.
A few people can use the horsepower for various apps; video editing and rendering, processing high-resolution images, animation, various engineering simulation software, etc.
For other's it's just feeling good that they have some bad-a$$ processing horsepower available to surf the web and write emails.
lol
2018 15" are noisy as hell tho.
Afaik the BlackMagic is still the most silent available, and yes, with a little crafty engineering (mostly larger diameter fans) you could probably get close with a stock case from another vendor
This is what happens when an operations/business/market-cap person runs a company and not a product/visionary/let's-do-cool-stuff person. Maybe it's nice, but I can't even afford to find out.
Damn, that's expensive even though this is not an Apple product.
I am pretty sure once the new Mac Pro is announced the prices will be so ridiculous inflated that it will be hard to justify getting one even being a professional that makes a living using it.
Apple needs to get a clue.
I am pretty sure once the new Mac Pro is announced the prices will be so ridiculous inflated that it will be hard to justify getting one even being a professional that makes a living using it.
Apple needs to get a clue.
Let me break it down if i wanted these things by other high quality hardware vendors.
so, BM eGPU Pro is 1359€ in EU, you get a TB dock and an eGPU.
If i want a dock, a vega 56 (new, not 2nd hand) and an external case from high quality vendors it goes like this:
400€ for Vega 56 (Sapphire)
500€ for sonnet 650W
300€ for Caldigit TS3+ dock
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1200€. the premium on black magic in that case is 159€. which is not a lot.
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i'm seriously considering the BlackMagic now when i say it like this
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Apple worked with Blackmagic to produce this. The rants are justified.
On the hypothetical "PorscheRumors" forum, I complained that the 911 is way too expensive and that one can buy a Corvette for half the price and has more power. I admire 911 but I can't afford one. I didn't buy the Corvette. I think 911 is more profitable than Corvette.
My point? Blackmagic is somehow positioning their product as "exclusive". I think that so far they managed, last time I checked it was the only eGPU available on the apple.com.
My point? Blackmagic is somehow positioning their product as "exclusive". I think that so far they managed, last time I checked it was the only eGPU available on the apple.com.