matt1309 wrote:
The Mac Pro trashcan and Mac mini are such machines. There is definitely demand for a more powerful GPU setup from Mac Pro users. There’s virtually no demand on the Mac mini front, so it’s not often you see an eGPU setup with it. In old line-up it would MBA tier. It's funny because this time MBA gets even worse GPU. It only sounded semi-decent in Keynote because they compared it to Mac Mini base model from 2014 which came with HD 5000. If they compared it to rMBP, it is 25% slower than current 13.3'. I really wanted to get this Mini but it would honestly be downgrade.
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... What about a thunderbolt graphics card ....
Currently the only way to do this is with a PCI-E expansion.
These are not inexpensive plus, there are no video cards
that could be plugged into it that have 'Thunderbolt' aware
drivers. Some sites suggest that video cards will work if
a Mini were natively running Windows, i.e. Bootcamp, but
not OSX.
In addition, I don't beleive that there are any video cards
that have Thunderbolt ports and this is the only way
you could use your Thunderbolt display. Thunderbolt displays
Mac Mini For Graphics
Mini Mac For Graphics Downloads
will only work with Thunderbolt ports.
Mini Mac For Graphics Software
Mar 24, 2014 2:30 AM