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  • New version of Carbon Copy Cloner fully Sierra compatible, backs up your Mac like it always has

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    Quite simply the best Mac utility there is.  What's more Mike always gets a beta out to those of us running developer  beta versions of macOS in day or two and his support is phenomenal.  To those saying it isn't worth the price I say you haven't explored all it can do.
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  • Trio of new AMD GPU references for possible Mac refresh found in latest macOS Sierra beta

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    I knew Apple would use Polaris!  I hope they update the drivers for the existing cards in 2013 Mac pros while they are at it. Meanwhile I found this:  http://www.bootcampdrivers.com/
    macplusplusSpamSandwich

  • Thunderbolt 3-equipped MacBook Pro can use external GPUs, but at a cost

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    In case anyone wonders, sadly, no you can't use AMD driver updates while in Windows as they deliberately exclude their own GPUs made for Apple as being 'not recognized', nice one AMD!  It was possible to mod the Omega drivers prior to Crimson, to stop rejecting the D500s, but a complex hack, I've yet to look to see if this is possible with the latest Crimson but I probably won't anyway as the hacked Omega drivers made the Mac Pro run very hot.  That's why I am using the long outdated official Crimson drivers from Apple still!
    AMD releases special drivers for BootCamp. Choose "BootCamp" in the menus then choose Windows version and Mac model on the driver downloads page. This is all we can get at this time.
    Right, then you update the Apple Utility  that Boot Camp installs  (multiple times) in Windows, that version AMD driver you refer to is then updated further by Apple to version 6 in their parlance.  I would give you the Crimson driver release numbers if I could but away from my Mac Pro at the moment.  From memory it's something like a jump from 15.1 to 15.3 but I could be way off.  I seem to recall the PC world are on 16 now.  In fact there was an update this week especially for Watch Dogs 2 which scared the hell out of me but it turned out my older drivers worked fine as per my earlier post.
    Thanks. I was just about to install those AMD BootCamp drivers that I stopped, because I'd previously installed Apple's latest BootCamp software.
    I just discovered this site:  http://www.bootcampdrivers.com/
    tallest skil