how to install graphic card on mac book pro 15inch

But while Apple has directly sold a few eGPUs, and natively supports AMD graphics cards without any special driver gymnastics required, it’s still mostly a niche category. These have very high throughput, making it possible for a GPU in an internal enclosure to offer almost as much graphics processing capability as one connected internally. Existing Macs with Intel chips will still be useful long after the transition is complete, however, and software porting means they might even support more of your existing favorite applications for the foreseeable future, which is why adding an external GPU (eGPU) likely makes more sense now than ever.Īpple added support for eGPUs a few years ago, made possible by the addition of Thunderbolt 3 ports on Macs.

And while new Intel-powered Macs will be released and sold leading up to that time, it does mean that the writing is on the wall for Intel-based Apple hardware. That process is meant to begin with hardware to be announced later this year, and last two years according to Apple’s stated expectations. For any serious workloads I have an M1 Mac and PC's.Apple recently announced they would be transitioning their Mac line from Intel processors to their own, ARM-based Apple Silicon. Never Clean Installed, 100% stock including the battery, runs well and truly owes me nothing.

They are also really nice Mac's to use, although age is ever more apparent.

Those looking for a cheaper/older used Mac notebook be well warned.

All 2011 15' MBP's are clearly not equal as per below, that said very significant numbers did fail prematurely.

After a decade of use, the surviving stock 2011 15' MBP's have all well and truly paid for themselves.

If the Radeon dGPU has lasted over a decade the notebook is likely to continue until something does give, which could be in the next 10 minutes or another ten years.

For many myself included the 2011 15' is no longer used professionally or heavily.

2011/2012 MBP's (non Retina) are the last user upgradable Mac notebook's with the quad core 15' still remaining reasonably competent.The 2011 15' MBP has poor resale value for obvious reason (count the Butterfly KB Mac's in that category too).No one with integrity will sell out a 2011 15' MBP without full disclosure (see next).

How to install graphic card on mac book pro 15inch