![]() There is hope for the rest of us, though. However, the least expensive version of the iMac Pro costs almost £5,000, so it’ll be far too expensive for anyone but professionals and developers with a big IT budget. Recently, of course, Apple has launched the new iMac Pro, and has very much aimed this new model at VR developers. ![]() ![]() And, in fact, the VR developers at Oculus once mocked Apple, saying that they would bring their Rift headset to the Mac “when Apple releases a good computer”. Needless to say, VR and AR games and software need seriously good graphics performance too. And, of course, none of the current Mac range has any internal expansion slots that would allow you to install a new GPU in order to upgrade your graphics performance. Many very expensive Mac models still rely on ‘integrated’ graphics – a small graphics chip built into the Mac’s main processor (CPU) – rather than having a ‘dedicated’ graphics card (or GPU – ‘graphics processing unit’) that works alongside the main CPU and gives graphics performance a much bigger boost. ![]() You need a lot of graphics power to run the latest 3D games and VR/AR software, but Apple has never shown much interest in gaming on the Mac. It’s certainly true that the iPhone and iPad are well suited to AR, as the popularity of mobile games in recent years means that these devices have plenty of graphical horsepower for titles, such as Pokemon Go, that work by superimposing computer graphics and data over images of the real world.īut that’s not the case with all Apple products and – as any Mac gamer will tell you – graphics performance has always been something of an Achilles’ heel for the Mac. There have been a lot of rumours flying around about Apple developing some sort of headset or glasses that will bring virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) to the Mac and iOS devices. Welcome to our guide to Mac eGPUs, in which we explain the advantages of using an eGPU and round up the best buying options currently available.
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