- #MAC OS HIGH SIERRA REVIEWS UPDATE#
- #MAC OS HIGH SIERRA REVIEWS UPGRADE#
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- #MAC OS HIGH SIERRA REVIEWS SOFTWARE#
Photos in macOS 10.13 is getting a huge update. Metal originally launched with ten times the graphics than prior versions of macOS and now Metal 2 also has ten times the graphics performance over the previous Metal! That means Macs running High Sierra will have 100 times the graphics ability than macOS Yosemite (previously OS X)! Metal was announced a few years ago and it was a way for graphics apps to tap into the GPU directly without having a huge overhead so lower end devices could get much better graphics performance. Now with the new Macintosh computers along with High Sierra, you will now be able to hookup a VR headset to your Mac! Apple is calling this Metal for VR and is being included as a part of Metal 2. That being said I have read online that people have been able to connect an eGPU with Thunderbolt 2 as long as the machine doesn’t boot with the PCI cage attached.Ī huge criticism of Macintosh was that they just were not powerful enough to drive a VR headset. Unfortunately I am not aware of a product like this. That being said, technically speaking if there was an adapter that used two Thunderbolt 2 ports and translated it into one Thunderbolt 3 port it would have sufficient bandwidth to use the eGPU. It’s true I could use a Thunderbolt adapter but it simply wouldn’t have the bandwidth to use the external graphics card. Unfortunately eGPUs require Thunderbolt 3 and my iMac only has Thunderbolt 2.
#MAC OS HIGH SIERRA REVIEWS UPGRADE#
Now that you bought your new Mac and it doesn’t have enough graphics power? You cannot upgrade the GPU but in macOS 10.13 “High Sierra” you can now hook up an external GPU (eGPU) to your Mac (requires Thunderbolt 3)! This means that if you bought a low end Mac but now down the line you want more powerful graphics, you can hookup an eGPU to your Mac and drive an external display with a standard PCI graphics card! This is just so cool to me! I purchased the high end 2012 iMac and while I love it, the graphics card I had put in it will not last me forever especially now that I’m working with 4K video and would like to play more powerful games. I thought it would’ve been a really nice time to make the transition. I was really certain that this year we would see macOS 11 to go along side iOS 11 and tvOS 11. The new version of macOS has a version number of 10.13. Now I do need to get a complaint of my chest.
#MAC OS HIGH SIERRA REVIEWS PRO#
It makes me really hopeful to see a new Mac Pro and I’d love to see a new Mac mini that uses a similar architecture as the MacBook which would allow the Mac mini to be the same size as the Apple TV. I still question why the base models of the MacBook and MacBook Pro are the same price but that’s for another time.Īpple’s new iMac Pro looks like a serious gaming Mac too which is really cool to see.
#MAC OS HIGH SIERRA REVIEWS UPDATE#
The MacBook also got an update which included new powerful processors. Introduced at WWDC 17, Apple put the current generation Intel CPUs and great graphics in the MacBook Pros. Apple’s 2016 MacBook Pro was criticized for using last generation Intel CPUs and low end graphics. Apple is also putting some killer GPUs in the iMacs. The new iMac models are blowing CPU performance out of the water. For instance the Mac mini has not received an update in almost four years, and the Mac Pro has almost gone five years! That being said, now in 2017 Apple has released some incredible Mac hardware.
#MAC OS HIGH SIERRA REVIEWS SOFTWARE#
Most of the new software features were being introduced in iOS, the Mac hardware started falling behind the competition, and upgrade cycles for the Mac started getting much wider apart. For the past seven or so years it’s seemed like Apple wasn’t too interested in the Mac platform. It’s an exciting time to be a Macintosh user as it seems like Apple is getting refocused on improving the Mac experience.
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