Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

You talking about my mate's white MacBook? I had a look a couple of weeks back and it was a lost cause... So she is gonna buy a new Mac in the new year...

Thanks for the offer though.

Cool, no worries. Sounds like the best option tbh.

Can I take this off your hands, will buy an enclosure for it and use as portable hdd.

Let me know..

http://nofilmschool.com/2017/10/microsoft-puts-gaming-gpu-tablet-keyboard
@chrisbmx116

Yeah that actually looks really good. Even a 1050 would do 1080 gaming. Really wish Apple used decent GPUs.

Ah sorry, it’s already been dibs’d.

Have a MacPro at work with a 1080ti inside. Performance measured with Cinebench is below a 2014 iMac. Not so happy about this - any ideas?

No worries.

Are you using the OSX drivers or the Nvidia web drivers? If the former, try the latter.

Edit: I don't think the 1080ti is natively supported so you must be using the web drivers.

The web drivers don't actually support the 1080 so apparently performance is very buggy:
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/117854/en-us

You'll probably just have to wait for Nvidia to improve the driver.

Odd that it doesnt list 9xx or 10xx, both are supported, but you are right - Drivers are very buggy and cards underperform noticeably as a result.

I wonder if @pipwish is running High Sierra?

Apparently the web drivers, High Sierra and 1080's don't play well together.

I use the web driver and have never had an issue with my 750ti, but I'm on 10.12. I suspect the issue here is convergence of new things with buggy results.

To be fair to Nvidia they do seem committed to improving/updating the web drivers so @pipwish this might get fixed by driver or OSX updates.

Thanks for the comments- I’ll check out the details. Apparently I might have to work on a pc. All be it with 2x 1080s, but I’ll miss the Mac if I do!

any recommendations for alternatives to Magic Mouse 2?

What is it you need that the Magic Mouse doesn't do?

hahahha price and charging while working... :D

They're 35 on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Official-Apple-Magic-Mouse-2-Wireless-Rechargeable-Multi-Touch/172906201596?_trkparms=aid%3D555019%26algo%3DPL.BANDIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20151005190540%26meid%3D5a3aa63fcc9d486a8325604da71c4791%26pid%3D100505%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26&_trksid=p2045573.c100505.m3226

I think you'll miss horizontal scrolling with a different mouse

Charge it overnight

Have a MacPro at work with a 1080ti inside. Performance measured with Cinebench is below a 2014 iMac. Not so happy about this - any ideas?

https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/19/akitio-node-gtx-1080-ti-gpu-macbook-pro-gaming-egpu/

Have you managed to load this on your machine - definitely interested, just worried that it might have spyware/adware on it

I have these outputs on my old MacBook Pro. How can I connect to my HDMI tv with audio for the cheapest?

No picture, but assuming pre retina (2012 era? Not an expert) then a mini DP/DVI to HDMI dongle was what I used with mine and it worked fine. Can't remember which of the above but a little google fu should help.

Pic. Whoops.

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Ta. Looks like Thunderbolt to HDMI is my best bet?

Aye. #donglelife

Thunderbolt to hdmi.

I use one to connect my 2011 MacBook Pro to my tv screen. I bought the cheapest one I could find on eBay, works perfect.

Been booting from an external SSD on my work iMac for a couple of years – it's a Samsung 850 Pro 256 in a USB 3 enclosure with UASP.

The write speeds have tanked in the last few months... Still 50% space available but I think it might be the lack of TRIM over USB (although in theory, UASP should support it, maybe.

It should be about 450 read and write but I'm seeing writes drop below 100 now. Reads seem ok.

Gonna leave it powered on tonight to see if its garbage collection kicks in and re-test tomorrow.
It's still better than the internal 5400 rpm spinning rust...

I think what I need to do is borrow a thunderbolt enclosure so I can force a TRIM command, or use a spare slot in Mac Pro...

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