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Legendary hacker brings eGPU compatibility to M-Series Macs

Boing Boing·Séamus Bellamy·about 1 month ago
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Mac users have long been able to attach external storage to their computers, but it's been a hot minute since anyone with a piece of Apple gear had been able to upgrade their own hardware with additional RAM, internal storage or, gods forbid, a new graphics card. While it's not the Framework -laptop-avec-Apple-Silicon beast that I have fever dreams about, the news that Apple is allowing folks to use external GPUs with their more recent computers and desktops is heartening. We'll soon be able to plug an eGPU into our Apple Silicon Macs, thanks to the Apple's official support of the hardware and its approval of the drivers to do it with from a company called Tiny Corp (a company owned by hacker extrodinare, George Hotz ). It's worth noting that it's always been possible to get an eGPU working with your M-series Mac. But the amount of tinkering required to do so has, until now, made it an near-unobtainable pain-in-the-ass.…

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