6/16/2023 0 Comments Saffire mixcontrol catalinaI reckon there might be 4 of us who could understand it offhand without research ) and then cruelly, and crucially, not explain to anyone who doesn't get it. (I am choosing the specific Jedi name for a very convoluted "in joke" reference, that I am smirking too hard about to not blatantly point out. I am pondering what will happen if I go to using a later OS, and a thunderbolt Hub to connect both a new interface and the screen ? any clues oh Obi_wan? a thumping great big thunderbolt/MDP Cinema display, for my CAD stuff more than DAW to be honest, so external graphics is still requirements for me. I however, do actually use an external Screen as well as the built in one. no external screen doohickeys required for her use. all she does is browse the web, do email., and a certain amount of MS Office use for work. Wifey now has my previous 17" MBP, with dGPU disabled. Studio Support Gnome wrote:(which can be bypassed, either in hardware, if you're seriously solder competent, or by a minor OS Boot Rom hack, to operate on the onboard intel chip only, but this disables external screens and obviously, the thunderbolt functionalityĭisabling the dGPU like this (ask me how I know! ) removes external monitor support (as that is hard-wired to the dGPU) but does *not* disable the thunderbolt port, or thunderbolt functionality - as this has nothing to do with the GPU. (which can be bypassed, either in hardware, if you're seriously solder competent, or by a minor OS Boot Rom hack, to operate on the onboard intel chip only, but this disables external screens and obviously, the thunderbolt functionality, but at least gives you a reasonably handy Mac for the wife to use. Stockpiling them against the inevitable graphics chip failures that seem to beset the model I may however, start buying spare 2012 17" i7 MBP units. and since I have retired from large scale Pro-audio for the most part, I don't see me needing to jump anytime soon. I must remember to borrow a TB connected focusrite unit to test this theory. SO in principle, (yet to be tested, ) I should be able to get a thunderbolt interface to run with no need for firewire adaptors or support. and is described as thunderbolt on more recent Apple Spec documents. the 17" MBP MDP video port, as reported on older OS X editions, seems to report and operate as Thunderbolt on later OS editions. and why I will probably eventually move to using my HS boot partition, or later, is. Typed on a 2012 quad core i7 17"MBP, 2TB of SSD 16GB of RAM, capable of running current OS, and with boot partitions on SSD for Several installed versions of OS X, including High Sierra, but actually mostly still using Yosemite that cannot run on such platform, ask yourself do you REALLY ,**NEED** it. The software that enabled us to do the job adequately last year, will continue to do so for years to come. I'm going to make the point that older OS, hardware and software doesn t stop working just because new shiny toys came out.
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