Many MacBook Pro users have been experiencing a problem with their DisplayLink enabled multi-screen setups. The problem specifically relates to a flickering screen, particularly with MacBook Pro 2018 and MacBook Pro 2019 laptops with discrete graphics.
Some MacBook Pro 2018/2019 models have two graphics systems to enable them to give you the best possible experience for every application you run. To provide you with the optimum graphic output, the software optimizes performance by switching between these two graphics systems, namely, a discrete graphics processor and an integrated graphics processor.
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Tom Nelson is an engineer, programmer, network manager, and computer network and systems designer who has written for Other World Computing,and others. Tom is also president of Coyote Moon, Inc., a Macintosh and Windows consulting firm.
HomeBrew - long-time computer users are probably familiar with the term "homebrew" in regards to user/hobbyist applications written for systems that generally were closed architecture like a videogame console. However, with regards to the Macintosh platform, HomeBrew is a package manager for macOS for (mostly) command-line utilities. Package managers function in principal like an App store for open source software as you can quickly install/update/uninstall the software from your command-line. For developers, Homebrew occupies a very important space as it's one of the most preferred ways to install nodejs, python, git, MySQL, as well as utilities like youtube-dl, ffmpeg, imagemagick, and MonitorControl.
Not all PCIe slots are the same. Since its inception, there have been several updates: PCIe 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, with the very first 4.0 PC motherboards demoed in 2018 and shipping in many PCs today. Each iteration of PCIe radically increases the speed by doubling the available bandwidth. Also, to add a minor bit of confusion, different chipsets have different amounts of total "lanes," measuring speed for a PCIe slot. PCIe slots are not all equal speed; thus, the total lanes are distributed across the PCIe slots, usually giving favor to one or two ports for maximum speed. In the Mac Pros (3,1 and above) case, all have a maximum of 40 lanes, and thus, the lanes are pre-distributed among the PCIe slots. Since not all PCIe slots have the same amount of lanes; thus, they are not all at the same speed. The amount of lanes a PCIe slot has access to is expressed numerically: 1x (1 lane), 2x (2 lanes), 4x (4 lanes), 8x (8 lanes), and 16x (16 lanes). The maximum speed of each lane depends on the version of PCIe a computer has. A 1.x PCIe 1x slot has access to 250 MB/s. Thus a 4x slot has a maximum of 1 GB/s, and an 8x slot has a maximum of 2 GB/s, and so on. Each generation of PCIe effectively doubles the speed of a lane. A PCIe 2.0 lane is 500 MB/s and PCIe 3.0 lane is 1 GB/s. Generally, PCIe speeds are expressed in bytes, not bits. A PCIe 2.0 16x speed (8 GB/s) would be 64 Gbps (64000 Mbps). In this guide, I will use MB/s and GB/s instead of Gbps and Mbps, as transfer speeds are generally expressed in bytes, not bits.
Before Apple implemented SIP, any software that was granted root access (by the user entering her/his password) could modify/edit system files. Generally, a user shouldn't disable SIP unless there's a specific reason. That said, there are plenty of reasons to disable SIP, such as certain boot managers or unsupported hardware cases. SIP can always be re-enabled.
It's reasonable to assume that when the time comes for Apple to jump to the rumored first desktop Apple Silicon (8 high performance, four low performance), that Apple will be batting around an AMD Ryzen 9 3900 in multicore performance. It really doesn't take much imagination to envision an Apple Silicon CPU in two years that bests any of AMD/Intel's desktop-grade (not Epyc/Xeon) CPUs in terms of performance. It's less reasonable to assume Apple can close the GPU performance gap when pitted against the higher-end consumer GPUs, which, unlike CPUs, have marched forward at a very impressive pace. Teraflops (a unit of computing speed equal to one million million (1012) floating-point operations per second) isn't a great metric for measuring GPUs. Still, they do give a rough ballpark estimate. NVidia' march from the 1080 ti (2016 for $699) to RTX 2080 Ti (2018 for $999) to the RTX 3080 (2020 for $699) moves from 8.9 Terflops 15.1 Terflops to 29.7 teraflops. Both AMD and Nvidia will be moving to 5nm GPUs in 2021, which is bound to increase performance. In two years, we very well may see GPUs in the 45-60 teraflop range based on the trajectory in the GPU market. Apple's GPU clocks in at 2,1 teraflops. While an absurd comparison, a GeForce 3080 clocks in at 203333 in OpenCL in GeekBench 5. Apple's m1 is less than 1/10th of Nvidia at 18751, roughly the same as the budget GeForce GTX 950, released in 2015 for $159. AMD's 6800 series makes this comparison even more absurd, clocking in at 356337 in OpenCL, almost twenty times more powerful, and the 6800 XT is more than 22x than Apple's first GPU. Apple's laptop future looks exceptionally bright, but its professional desktop future is murky. Core counts are high, thermal budgets are big, RAM measures into the terabytes, GPUs are massive, and modularity is king.
Older NVidia GPUs with the web drivers will not support 10-bit color, but the latest GPUs do. AMD's GPU Drivers lockout 10-bit on its consumer GPUs (sans the VII), but the Pro variants unlock 10-bit color. Unfortunately, Apple's drivers confusingly report 30-bit (aka 10-bit) color even when non-compatible hardware is used. If the GPU can address downsampling 30-bit color spaces to 24-bit, it will report 30-bit color. Many true 10-bit displays will report when they're receiving a 10-bit signal. Under Windows, non-pro AMD GPUs will use 10-bit color in games, whereas 2D operations are still wedged into 8-bit color spaces. Most displays (especially budget) use Frame Rate Control (FRC) to achieve simulated 10-bit. FRC works by parsing the 10-bit color stream and for colors that fall outside the 8-bit range, cycling between near shades of colors within the 8-bit spectrum. This visually creates a simulated 10-bit experience and improves the perceived gamut. This is acceptable for many purposes, but film editors, colorists, and graphic designers may require the accuracy of true 10-bit color. These come with a much higher price tag.
Due to the nature of the Metal requirements of Mojave, many users have had to eschew their old GPUs for Metal compatible CPUs that do not display the EFI boot screen. There are a few options available to Mac users. However, boot managers are not required for dual-booting to Windows. I personally recommend using the brigadier method of installing Bootcamp drivers that support APFS rather than using a boot manager or using opencore. See the Windows 10 section for more details. L
10/22/18 - 2018 is the year of the cMac Pro. In the space of not updating for a month, we have native NVMe support, bootscreens on RTX cards and the craziest of them all: promising ThunderBolt results. Added notes in relevant sections. Added Boot manager to both GPU and it's own section under other upgrades. Also, I was mentioned in a podcast a while back Brograph Podcast - Episode 134 (at the 33:05 mark). Added a TechRadar link. Added more AppleInsider insults. Why? It's apologist fanboy propaganda.
Avid has released the EUCON 2018.3 software update, which not only brings a number of major features to the Pro Tools S6 control surface but also includes new functionality and stability fixes across all EUCON-enabled control surfaces, including a new Unified Workstation software installer architecture.
One of the key features in Eucon 2018.3 is that S6 customers can now connect and use the iPad Control App with their S6 control surfaces. When used in conjunction with S6, the iPad app provides an extra set of Softkeys, as well as offering Transport Control and remote recording and monitor cue mixing. 2ff7e9595c
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