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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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Talk was about https://bizon-tech.com/us/bizonbox2-egpu.html/ now cheaper 589$ to 549$(+ 99$ for power supply if you want stronger card) 😀 Don't now if enclouser for your link supports eGPUs.
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But probably only that doesn't require external supply (just power from pciexpress) so only gtx750ti (still stronger than future iris pro 580) but if you have pay additional 150 pounds I don't see much sense in this.
No one is forcing you to get one. There will be egpu docks that can handle top class GPUs without external psu (look at razer's egpu dock that was recently shown at ces ) in the near future and they will be an ideal option for people who needs more graphical processing power on their macbooks. do you think spending an extra $300~500 to use a gpu that is exponentially more powerful than the dgpu will bother a person who truly needs more juice out of their macbook?
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Pricetag? 🙂 To be honest I think is better to buy imac additionally to macbook pro 13 than buy macbook pro 15 and some external enclosuers and additional gpus or just buy simple pc if you need gpu horsepower ( or console if you want just play games).
You don't understand something. There is a reason why people use macbooks as their main computer. Afterall, this is a skylake mbp thread. you can buy an imac if you want. and people who have no good reason to support about their argument tend to smile alot 🙂
Wow. Just wow.
Advice to buy iMac (the cheapest with dGPU being $1799, and dGPU worth $200 max is quite crappy and you can't upgrade it etc) instead of buying eGPU and choosing practically any GPU to be used with practically any laptop (ok, maybe new MB will not see top-tier gaming but even Air will be boosted really well) for at least three times less the price (this year it should become even lower - four or five times less the price)... man.
I have no words. You're genius. Why haven't we thought about this marvelous financial decision earlier. Thank you!
P. S. And $1799 is the crappiest iMac to be fair. I like to have at least 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD which makes it at least $2499... and the dGPU is still crap.
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I hope the guy don't imply to buy iMac instead of rMBP. Because, well, you know, iMac won't fit in my backpack.
500$(or more if from apple) enclosure + 500$ dGPU + how much you spend for monitor ? Probably want to buy apple thunderbolt monitor? 😀 (and this looks like **** together) Just explain me why do you need this gpu horspowe and OS X system ? 🙂
You never thought that there are many people who use macs for video editing, 3d rendering, or any graphic-intensive tasks?
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I won't bother you with explanation about computations accelerated by top-tier GPU to be used in a lot of professional software... there are games on OS X. And there is always bootcamp to play even more games.
Moreover (you'd be ashamed with these people!) there are those who blaspheme and install Linux on Mac.
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Oh pfff. As if the laptop was named "Pro".
Yeah and they did this all using m370 and couldn't wait for this days of external gpus and macbook pro 😀
You don't understand something.
1. eGpu dock will be a lot cheaper (there is already one) when TB3 become commercialized.
2. A $300 gpu (i.e. gtx 970) or even $200 will still be outperform dgpus in the macbook.
3. You don't have to use a thunderbolt display to use eGpu. There are many great 4k monitors at a cheap price compared to apple's tb display
Hahaha. Man, I think you've never talked with any professional whose computations can be offloaded to GPU.
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$200-300 for enclosure + any price for dGPU (you may even install the same crappy dGPU that is used in iMac for approx. $200). And you can upgrade it whenever you want and use your MacBook for years. Or vice versa.
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Does anyone remember the lashing that some guy got on a front page thread where he questioned why some users usage and said that no one really needs more than 8 GB of RAM? There was about 8 pages of disgust.
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