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Apple boot camp for windows 104/17/2023 ![]() On a Mac, we have no user accessible BIOS. On PC hardware, I’d usually go into the BIOS and tweak the boot sequence, making sure that the CD drive comes before the hard disk. With a (more or less) fresh hard disk in place in my Mac, my first hurdle was to figure out how to make the Mac boot from anything other than the internal hard drive. It’s just good to know that I have another OS to try some day. I was very impressed, and felt almost sorry to overwrite CentOS with Windows. Even those awkward “special” keys worked out of the box, such as volume, display and keyboard dimming. To my complete surprise, CentOS 7 booted just fine on the Mac hardware. The old hard disk came from a Samsung Q330 laptop, on which I had CentOS 7 installed. In case my Windows 10 Folly wasn’t going to be successful, I would have something to go back to in a jiffy. I didn’t want to touch my current installation of High Sierra. I started by swapping out an old hard disk from another laptop I had lying around, so see if this experiment would work in principle. and a wired Internet Ethernet Connection (I’ll tell you why later on).a bootable Windows Installation Disk ur USB Sick (can be created with the Windows Media Creation Tool).What we needįor this experiemnt, we need the following ingredients: I thought I’d take some notes on how I did this step by step, and give you my opinions if this was an adventure worth undertaking. I did this in two live streams the other night, and continued the process over the following days – and now I’ve got a (more or less working) Windows 10 installation on my MacBook Pro (early 2011 Edition). However, being the hacker that I am, I thought perhaps I’ll try the “Windows Only” experience. Apple’s recommended way is to do all this from macOS, using their own Bootcamp setup. So I thought, perhaps I’ll put in a new hard drive that I had in another old laptop and install Windows 10 on it. Even if I could keep up with Mojave and beyond, the hardware might just not be fast enough anymore to give me an enjoyable experience. I’m stuck with macOS High Sierra, without an option to upgrade without shadowy patches. I’ve had it since 2011 and it’s still going strong.Īpple however doesn’t want to suport it anymore. It does everything I want for a portable coding, writing and occasional editing device. Below are the benchmarks – you can click on the scores to see the screen captures.I love my old MacBook Pro. The graphics card used is an EVGA GTX 980 Ti Hybrid with liquid cooling it’s a perfect pairing with the Node. I successfully ran automate-eGPU script on these four Mac laptops to enable eGPU with the AKiTiO Node enclosure. The soon-to-be-released version 1.0.0 of this script will have better support for AMD Polaris and Fiji graphics cards. At the moment, Nvidia GTX 900s series and older are Mac compatible. To enable the use of an eGPU in Mac OS environment, the one prerequisite is Goalque’s automate-eGPU script. The Early 2015 11″ MacBook Air is running at Thunderbolt 2 speed (20Gbps) and the Late 2011 17″ MacBook Pro is running at Thunderbolt 1 speed (10Gbps).Īn AKiTiO Node running with firmware v1.0.0.3 B1-23+3.6.1 is fully functional in macOS 10.12 Sierra. The Late 2016 Mac laptops are running at Thunderbolt 3 speed (40Gbps) through the AKiTiO Thunderbolt 3 cable while the older Mac laptops are running at slower speed via the Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter. Late 2011 17″ MacBook Pro with iGPU HD 3000 and dGPU Radeon HD 6770M.Early 2015 11″ MacBook Air with iGPU Iris 6100.Late 2016 13″ MacBook Pro with iGPU Iris 540.Late 2016 15″ MacBook Pro with iGPU HD 530 and dGPU Radeon Pro 450.The list of Thunderbolt equipped Mac laptops for this evaluation with the AKiTiO Node Thunderbolt 3 enclosure are: They also have older and unsupported Thunderbolt controllers. ![]() Their cases need to be modified to accommodate most graphics cards. The other two enclosures, Thunder2 and Thunder3, require a more powerful power supply than their factory 60W unit to run any AMD or NVidia card. It also has the newer USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 controller, TI83, which macOS fully supports. Its 400W power supply and generous chassis dimensions mean it can accomodate up to the most powerful AMD or NVidia cards available. The Node is the only enclosure that is a ready-to-go eGPU solution from the factory. My conclusion came after I ran all four Mac laptops through all three Thunderbolt enclosures. At the moment, my pick would go to the AKiTiO Node. I happen to be in possession of three Thunderbolt expansion enclosures and four Apple Mac laptops which span three generations of Thunderbolt connectivity. What’s the best Thunderbolt eGPU for Mac in 2017? Depends on whom you ask, the answers vary.
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