hi everyone Aaron here for Zolo tech and
this is Apple's officially supported and
they actually sell it to developers
external graphics box this is their
breakout box so let's open it up it
comes in at $5.99 and is actually a
pretty good deal so this is the
breakaway box I haven't open any of this
stuff so this is the box that stuff
let's see what's over to the right first
so just some paper it comes with a
Belkin USB type-c hub this is the
graphics card I believe you can see it's
a sapphire card it's an Rx 580 that's
the actual card itself
so we'll put this back in here for now
and let's take this out of the box as
well so as you can see it says breakaway
box it's made by SONET now this is
supported on 2016 MacBooks with
Thunderbolt 3 and it's officially
supported in the next version of Mac OS
hi Sierra so this is the box itself
inside we've got some instructions we've
got a plug for the wall and we have a
very short Thunderbolt 3 cable this is
the smallest one that's offered so this
is the Thunderbolt 3 cable take the foam
off of it
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on the back you can see we have a plug
power switch and our slot for our GPU
this is the front and let's take this
apart and see what's inside
so we'll unscrew these thumb screws
they're a little bit too tight so I have
to use a screwdriver first inside you
can see here's where our card will go
we've also got a couple zip ties and an
extra screw as well to hold down the
card now we need to plug in the card so
we'll go ahead and do that before I seal
this up I tidied up some of the wiring
you can see this is a 350 watt power
supply that's included along with the
fan and then the graphics card nicely
inside so let's go ahead and put the top
back on as you can see the box is ready
to go we've got our one Thunderbolt
three port on the back and this will
fully charge a 13-inch MacBook Pro but
not a 15-inch that's one thing they note
in the notes also at the current time
audio is not supported over HDMI not
sure if it will work over DisplayPort on
the Mac so we'll try out DisplayPort and
see how that goes so let's go ahead and
hook all this together and see how it
works we're at the login screen which
apple says you need to be in when you
plug this in so let's plug this in and
you'll see it lights up and let's see
how it works now it's saying an external
GPU is detected I need to log out so
I'll go ahead and do that both displays
are awake you'll see it says it's a
Radian rx 580 let's see a Final Cut Pro
will open
so right now Final Cut Pro opens and
then appears to crash and unfortunately
if it keeps crashing so maybe that will
be fixed with an update one thing to
know is if you unplug this it doesn't
completely freeze the Mac it just brings
you back out to the login screen and
then you log back in and you're good to
go let's see if we can run something
that will test its frame rates now we're
running off the external graphics card
and I've got everything turned up to
extreme and we're getting about 14
frames per second now when we were
running it on the MacBook directly we're
we're getting about three frames per
second so it's a big improvement and
maybe lived time and some different
things this will actually get better but
it's a it's a pretty big jump seeing
that we're running this an extreme the
GPU box does make a little bit of noise
you can hear the fan going it's not the
quietest of fans but it's working okay
and this is still going just fine and
not great I've definitely seen better
with a 1080 on a PC things like that but
for now it's a step in the right
direction and I can't wait to see what
else
Apple has Final Cut Pro is not working
but the HTC vive should work and they
also included $100 giftcard towards this
or $100 off towards an HTC vive so I
definitely can't wait to check this out
and the fans just turned up I don't know
if you can hear them
but the fans kicked up as it's running
right off the GPU let me know your
thoughts about this in the comments
below are you excited about this
external GPU support in OS 10 or Mac OS
hi Sierra
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