Its amazing how so many products Apple introduces are not available at the original release time frame (some cases are more than a year). Its almost like Apple management has no clue what they are doing. With Jobs people were fired for missing deadlines, but now it seems its just, "Oh, well, we'll try harder next time."
Does not give one a lot of confidence in the new Apple.
It's the self-imposed "heartbeat" of new-release times. Apple of yore would pretty much just not say ANYTHING about a product until it was DONE, and THEN organize an event to introduce it.
Over the years, that has gradually morphed into a fairly-regular (and yearly!) schedule of "updates"; so regular that when things seem to be "late" even by a few weeks (like the most recent iPad/Mac event on 10/30/18), the natives start to get nervous.
This forces Apple's ENTIRE product-development cycle to ALSO adopt these arbitrary deadlines, and the result is what you see: More products that aren't QUITE ready for prime-time when the announced (projected) release date hits.
FORTUNATELY, Apple has elected to take the LITTLE "beating" that comes from blowing a deadline by (usually) a short period, rather than the HUGE beating that comes from releasing a product/update that has major issues.
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You telling me that an eGPU with Vega 64 will not run on a 2018 Mac Mini with BlackMagic's casing? I was thinking about using the Sonnet's box with a Vega 64.
As long as the Sonnet eGPU box has sufficient Power Supply, I would think that it would work just fine. The Mac mini has no idea how much power the eGPU is requiring; nor should it.
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The price is just comical. They couldn’t even put a Vega 64 card in? I get eGPUs are expensive but this is silly. I hope no one buys it to send the message this is not reasonable. Go with another company like Razer.
The going price for a Vega 64 card with 8 GB of HBM2 memory is around $500 FOR THE CARD ITSELF!
https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?N=100007709 601301447&IsNodeId=1&Submit=ENE
Now, we have to add a power supply, case, packaging, agency-approvals times howevermany countries, etc, etc.
So, no, the price is high; but it IS actually justified.
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Apple should of re-designed the mac mini and put a Vega 20 in it. One would think after 4 years and loads of resources they could of done that.
And then, if you need a eGPU, these units should have upgradable graphics cards in them.
Likely came down to power supply and/or cooling limitations in the mini.
I do hope, however, that they figure a way to update the mini to include an Intel/Vega CPU/GPU SoC.
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The price of course is stupid, but this is the Apple market. All the prices are stupid. What really blows my mind is why on EARTH did they not just put the Vega64 in there!? They stop just short of the top end model with the Vega56. I mean REALLY?! FOR THE PRO VERSION?
Good God Blackmagic. Fire your “board.”
They ran out of power supply and/or cooling, I would imagine.
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So right you are. I still buy Apple because of the ecosystem, but I keep waiting for MS or Google to provide a 'viable' alternative.
They've had over 40 years to do so...