• paraphrand@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    The big reason to make a hackintosh was to use eGPUs?

    eGPUs were not supported natively? And now they are?

    What timeline are you talking about here? Is it all back 10-6 years ago?

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        9 hours ago

        Ok, that makes a bit more sense then.

        eGPUs got pretty good support on Intel Macs in the years leading up to Apple Silicon. And that transition started 5+ years ago. And now all Apple Silicon Macs have no eGPU support.

        I find it weird that you cite eGPU support since hackintoshes almost always have PCI slots. And the eGPU support still comes from Apple (at the driver level) even on a hackintosh. AFAIK.

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          10 hours ago

          I did a little digging. It seems like mainline Apple hardware with Thunderbolt 2 had limited eGPU support because of bandwidth constraints. Thunderbolt 3 had full support.