Unless Apple releases a 14” with discrete GPU. I really like the combination of good portability on the road paired with great power at home, but I guess I will go for a fully integrated 16” at upgrade time. So I will be forever paranoid with the current setup.
Admittedly, most pros are not fast to upgrade the OS on a mission-critical machine, but I wanted the new functionality on a computer that’s mixed personal and work use and I figured something as basic and so well officially supported by Apple MUST work from the beginning.
The script modifies existing Mac OS system files to enable the recognition of an external graphics card connected through a Thunderbolt enclosure. Goalque discovered the workaround and developed automate-eGPU script to make this process easy. 4 update things seem to have gotten back to normal, so something like 6 months after the Catalina launch. The next step is to make your Mac recognize there’s an external GPU attached to the enclosure.
3 release) it was a random mess - the computer wouldn’t boot if connected to the eGPU at startup, many programs wouldn’t see the eGPU unless started in clamshell mode and even after seeing it wouldn’t use it, there were freezes that would only occur with the eGPU. Before Catalina, everything worked perfectly, but after the upgrade (and I waited for a. I have a Sonnet 650 with a reputable RX580 inside, hooked to a maxed 2019 13” MacBook Pro.
