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16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] tal@lemmy.today 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess you could get an eGPU. Probably not cheaper than just giving Apple their pound of flesh, though.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If apple supported egpus, sure, you could. But they don't so......

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure I remember reading about Macs using eGPUs.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102363

They supported it on Intel processors.

looks more

Oh, their ARM-based machines can't.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254655917

No. The Apple Silicon Macs do not currently support external GPUs and Apple has not made any mention of planning to support them in the future.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, Apple Silicon giveth, and Apple Silicon taketh away.

Though, honestly, the number of people who would buy any Apple product and ALSO use an eGPU was probably absolutely miniscule and probably didn't even figure into their design planning.

The monitor segmentation is fucking stupid, though: just let me plug in as many damn monitors as I want, why do you care at all, Apple?