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The 'stackable modules' Mac has been a rumour / fever dream since back in the days of Firewire. It ain't gonna happen. "The only one you have to buy is the brain module…. It has some ports on it and it mostly houses the RAM and the CPU". No stor…

in Apple's 'modular' Mac Pro design may mean units that connect like Lego bricks Comment by alxknt February 2019
The article doesn't mention Aperture's relation to iPhoto. Prior to release, Aperture was rumoured as 'iPhoto Pro', which was a pretty good description. For years the two products had overlapping functionality (but incompatible library formats, doh!…

in How Apple's Aperture created a new class of app on October 19, 2005 and lost it to Adobe L... Comment by alxknt October 2018
The "ATP Tipster" has a lot to say about this subject. He claims that Sierra has excellent (read; hot pluggable) eGPU support, built for the vaporwear 5K display with built in GPU. It needs to be enabled with some EFI magic. He recommends the Bison …

in Thunderbolt 3-equipped MacBook Pro can use external GPUs, but at a cost Comment by alxknt December 2016