Installing official AMD Radeon graphics drivers Plugging in the eGPU before boot, after boot, during Windows logo, between Startup Manager and selecting WindowsĬopying pci.sys from 1903 and replacing the one in System32ĭisabling devices in Device Manager to ‘rearrange PCIe assignment’Įrror 12, and I tried all sorts of directions and bottom-/top-first, no change I spent days scouring the site for solutions, and these are the things I tried that were unsuccessful: What I triedĮrror 12 (also not good staying on an old version of Windows forever) Not interested in what didn’t work? Jump to What did work?Įgpu.io is a great site with lots of guides and information, but unfortunately I found none of it helpful. Since there are no Nvidia drivers for macOS, an AMD card is what you need to also use your eGPU on macOS, as described in an Apple support article Use an external graphics processor with your Mac. I chose AMD for the best compatibility with both macOS and Windows. The 13-inch Pro is the current champ for combining price, performance and features, while the 13-inch Air is, while a bit dated in its design, still a tremendously useful laptop available at a very accessible price.AMD Radeon RX 590 (Amazon affiliate) graphics card to put in the eGPU enclosure. It's the biggest and most powerful laptop Apple makes, and unless you're moving up to a 5K iMac or the Mac Pro desktop, it's going to be on the wish lists of photographers, designers, video makers and others.īut for everyone else, there may be a better choice in the MacBook lineup. But it's also slim and light enough to make an occasional trip without being a burden, which is why Apple feels free to charge such a premium for it above both other high-end 15-inch laptops and the rest of the MacBook line. The 15-inch MacBook Pro is a powerful, but still portable, laptop that feels more at home on a desk (perhaps tethered to external hard drives and docking stations) than in your travel bag. This system ran for 9:34 in our video playback battery test, about 15 minutes longer than the 2014 configuration we tested. Again, perhaps because this year's test unit has to support a separate graphics card while the one we tested last year did not, the battery life we saw in the 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro versus the 2014 model was nearly identical. Apple claims tweaks to the operating system and battery chemistry should give you about an hour of extra battery life in this 2015 MacBook Pro, versus a comparable 2014 model.

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