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gutengel said:

Whats the UVI complication? Does the new watch will be able to tell if you have too much UV exposure?!

lkrupp said:

racerhomie3 said:

I am still praying for a new Mac Mini.
Mr Tim & Jony ,please grant our wish for a new Mac Mini with a SSD option.

If anything the Mac Mini should be discontinued. It has never been very Apple like in design. It’s downright ugly. It was brought out because of all the whining about a cheaper headless Mac from the few who don’t like all-in-ones. The Mini has never sold very well because its market is limited to a tiny minority of Mac users. That kind of market is best left to the cheap PCs you can buy at Walmart for $400. I hope Apple kills this abomination once and for all. 

cgWerks said:

macxpress said:

cgWerks said:
Yeah, if you don't care about quiet, then other options are not only cheaper, but better for future expandability. But, if you do... so far, this is the only option.

I'd like to see if others follow suit with something similar to this, but with an expandable chassis tray or something.

I hope so... though if so, quickly before I buy one. While this design might be somewhat optimal for cooling (i.e.: vertical air-flow up a 'cylinder'), I don't see why some of the systems have to be so noisy, aside from the built-in GPU fans. If you kept it cool enough, would the GPU fans run fast? And, it seems for a few card options, you could create a kit-option that would replace stock fans on the GPUs with more quiet ones and include that with the enclosure. A bit more DIY, but I think the audience for that would be comfortable with it.

tht said:
Don’t think of it as an PCI breakout box. Think of it as an external GPU, much in the same way as an external hard drive. Not many people are complaining about not being able to reuse the hard drive enclosure - RAID ones excepted - that came with their external hard drive. They’ll just buy a new external hard drive.

Two, three years down the road, these Blackmagic eGPU buyers will just buy a new eGPU box. Strange that they don’t offer a Vega version, but maybe being quiet was the number 1 priority and went with a lower performing, but cooler Polaris GPU, or whatever version it is using.

I do wonder that Apple is using macOS eGPU support as a testing and seeding ground for how the 2019 Mac Pro will work though. A 600 W 2 GPU box is coming for the Mac Pro?

Exactly... this is a done solution, out of the box, and is priced higher, accordingly. That's OK with the only real downside - for what it is - being how quickly it will become obsolete and rather worthless. And, yes, there are storage options, especially the fast SSD ones, that are pretty much what they are. Or, like you say, a lot of people who buy external hard drives don't open them and update the drive inside. That said, pros and GPUs are probably one of the biggest areas people would upgrade.

And, yes, it would be nice if it were kind of a best-in-class kind of card in there from the get-go. I'd imagine they would still be able to cool it similarly, though maybe a big bigger enclosure or something, or possibly slightly more noisy.

I'm guessing you're right on the Mac Pro (as others like Mike W have been indicating). It will probably be a core box with as many TB3 (or 4?) ports on it as possible and maybe a line of eGPUs, storage, and other add-ons. That might be OK now, whereas it really wasn't in 2013. I just hope for better OS support. It is silly they don't support more cards, and in Bootcamp, etc.... or even TB2.