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    Which macbook pro graphics card? iris or iris with radeon for lightroom and photoshop

    Which macbook pro graphics card? iris or iris with radeon for lightroom and photoshop and maybe at some point video but who knows? Do i need to drop 800 more on the one with the radeon? I do not play games. Does anyone have specs on benchmarks on the two or have any more info about them? I just...
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    Issues booting up / blue screen / graphics issues

    I have a mac pro tower 1,1 (which has had various upgrades done by the previous owner). The Mac has started to have some intermittent issues at start up. When booting up sometimes horizontal lines are appearing across the screen, and then it's either hanging on grey screen or blue screen...
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    Mac Pro (2008) Graphics Card Upgrade Advice

    Right now I'm running my 2x 2.8GHz Quad Mac Pro 3,1 with the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB. Currently on OSX 10.9.5 with no issues. However, I can see myself upgrading to El Capitan or whatever comes after that eventually, and probably start to use some more image processing software (Pixelmator...
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    Late 2009 iMac Graphics problem..

    Hello everyone, I have a late 2009 21.5 iMac which had a graphics problem (vertical stripes and later black screen) and eventually I had the graphics chip replaced. It worked for around a month then upon booting the screen shows the apple boot and right before login it goes black again. I...
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    Have budget for a new MacBook Pro should I wait

    I'm looking forward to buy a new 13 inch retina MBP to replace my 2011 MacBook Pro 13. The question is should I wait for the new refreshed model(not sure when)or just go with the current one? I do hope the new one has better graphics performance.
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    Mac Pro Tower - 5 or 6 Monitors

    Hello, I have a project where I need to get 5 or ideally 6 monitors from an old style mac pro. I have two machines available to me, but if it's possible to use just one that would be great! The end goal is to have a curved array of monitors to display a panoramic style video. Aiming for a...
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    Drop frame rates in public build of El Capitan

    I bought myself a early 2015 13" MacBook Air last year around black friday. I was moving over from a mid-2012 13" classic MacBook Pro. Both used with the public releases of El Capitan. I set up the the new Air as a new computer instead of migrating my previous setup. I thought everything would...
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    Audio through GTX 760 HDMI

    Hello All, I have a Mac Pro 2009 4,1 with the 5,1 mac pro firmware upgrade. I just installed a GTX 760 into it but it seems I cannot get the mac to recognize the card for audio out. I have installed the latest nVidia web driver with no avail. It is outputting though HDMI to HDMI. When I had...
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    Make MacBook Pro 2011 Graphics Issue Reoccur

    Hello, A couple of weeks ago my MacBook Pro 15" early 2011 started shutting itself off randomly. Sometimes it just froze with various patterns and such, indicating graphical issues. Eventually it wouldn't turn on. The sleep light indicator would turn on and stay lit and you could hear the HDD...
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    iMac could support external TB3 graphics?

    Yesterday I noticed this, a new NVIDIA graphics driver came out and under the release highlights it read: Now it is very likely for the new iMac to have TB3 support. And finally being able to use external GPU's over ThunderBolt would be great. You think this would be supported under OS X? Or...
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    5k iMac: Graphics Driver Update

    Hi guys. Proud owner of the new 5k iMac. Got a question.. i do some gaming on it and am wondering if we will see a potential increase in performance as the OS updates keep coming in. As a second question.. do display drivers get updated very often with the macs? Thanks so much :)
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    Need advice from professional designers

    Not sure if this is a good place to post this, but doing so anyway as there seems to be more people here knowledgeable about graphic design than on job forums. I am looking to finally enter college this year. Graphic design interests me although I haven't ever designed anything myself, even as a...
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    eGPU budget solution?

    Hi I have a 2012 Non-Retina 13 MBP (i5, 8GB RAM, 250GB SSD, Intel Graphics 4000) and I was wondering of there was any methods of connect a GPU to my MBP for a fairly inexpensive way. I was also wondering whether I could also connect a display via the GPU. Also my MBP doesn't have the new...