The now-available $249 Akitio Thunder3 is much smaller than the larger Akitio Node, so it takes up a smaller footprint on your desk. Instead, you can utilize a Boot Camp installation, and turn your MacBook Pro into a 1080p gaming machine. That’s not to say that you should run out and buy a Windows laptop if you want to play the latest games requiring a more powerful GPU. It should come as no surprise that the setup process and support with Windows is, in some ways, quite a bit better than using an eGPU with macOS. While that solution yielded definite benefits, it was also hindered by difficulties caused by macOS itself. In our previous tutorial, we showed you how to wield an AMD RX 480 in macOS. As we’ve shown in a previous post, an eGPU can make a significant performance difference, turning an otherwise graphically pedestrian MacBook Pro into a competent gaming machine.

While they’ve existed before the most recent MacBook Pro, the surge of interest in external GPUs is largely thanks to the implementation of Thunderbolt 3 in the latest Mac hardware. How to back up and restore a Boot Camp Windows partition on macOS using Winclone Watch our hands-on video walkthrough for the details. Unlike the Boot Camp creation + Windows 10 installation process, removing a Boot Camp partition couldn’t be easier. In this follow-up tutorial, we show you how to remove the Boot Camp partition from your Mac, which allows your primary macOS partition to reclaim its space. Since some Macs are fairly limited when it comes to internal storage space, having a large Boot Camp partition can make it tricky to manage storage space in macOS. Outside of the time it takes, another downside associated with creating a Boot Camp partition is that it can take up a significant amount of space on your primary drive. The process, while not difficult, can be slightly time consuming, especially if you have a slow Internet connection for downloading Windows 10. In a previous tutorial we showed you how to create a macOS Boot Camp partition for installing Windows 10 on a MacBook Pro.

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