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Enjoy a broad range of Mac apps — from travel, entertainment, and gaming to banking, education, and project management. Experience Voice Control film transcript(Ian uses Dictation with Voice Control)Wake up.MUSIC PLAYSThe level readings on the gray and white microphone-shaped Dictation icon move up and down with Ian’s voice.(Ian dictating)Voice Control is a breakthrough feature that gives you full control of your devices comma, with just your voice, period.Text of Ian’s dictation appears in Notes.(Ian dictating)It’s a whole new way to do everything you love, period. Correct love.The word “love,” is highlighted blue. A list of numbered options appears below the word. The options include replacement words as well as heart icons.(Ian uses Voice Control)Sixteen.A red heart icon replaces the word “love,” in the text.Cut to the interior of Ian’s house.
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He sits in a motorized wheelchair in front of an iMac.(Ian uses Voice Control)Open photos.Photos opens from his dock. The “Days,” folder shows May 15-19, photos of Ian in his wheelchair riding along a roadside with friends on bikes.(Ian uses Voice Control)Scroll up.In “Days,” April 12-14, photos of a man on a mountain bike and a tree-covered mountain at the edge of a lake.(Ian uses Voice Control)Show numbers.Numbers appear on the folder buttons and on each photo.(Ian uses Voice Control)Thirteen.A photo opens.
The man holds his mountain bike over his head in front of the lake.(Ian uses Voice Control)Click share.A dialog box opens: “Share 1 Photo To,” with a numbered list of options.(Ian uses Voice Control)Three.Messages opens, and the photo appears in a message.(Ian uses Voice Control)Tim.The name Tim appears in the “To:” field, then autofills to “timabad@ icloud.com.' (Ian uses Voice Control)Next field.
Let's ride this one today. Thumbs up emoji.The text appears in the message, along with a thumbs up emoji.(Ian uses Voice Control)Click send. Open Maps.Maps opens.(Ian uses Voice Control)Show grid.The map of the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway is overlaid with a numbered grid.(Ian uses Voice Control)Long press at twenty.A pin drops with the tag, “Marked Location: Olympic National Park, Highway, 101, Port Angeles,” and an Info icon.(Ian uses Voice Control)Open App Switcher.Ian glances down at his wheelchair-mounted iPhone. A notification pops-up: “Maps, from ‘Ian’s iMac.’” A number four appears in the top left of the notification.(Ian uses Voice Control)Four.The Marked Location opens in Maps on Ian’s iPhone.(Ian uses Voice Control)Tap share.Ian’s contact, Tim is highlighted, with a Messages logo in the bottom of his photo.(Ian uses Voice Control)Tap Tim.The Marked Location appears in the Message with Tim, who has responded to the initial Message: “I’m down.
Let’s go!”(Ian uses Voice Control)Tap send.The send button, numbered 11, is selected.music playsJump inby Atomic Drum AssemblyCut to a wide shot of Ian as he rides his motorized wheelchair across a pedestrian bridge over a river.Now, the camera follows him from behind as he rides toward an evergreen forest.Cut to Ian as he uses a sip and puff controller to ride along a forest trail. Tim rides up next to him.
The two men smile.(Ian talks to Tim)Hey, good to see you.Cut to Tim and Ian as the reach the shore of a lake ringed by green hills. They look out at the water.(Ian uses Voice Control)Open music.
Turn up the volume.(Ian speaks)Alright!We zoom in on the hills and the white clouds that fill the sky.A white Apple logo appears in front of the clouds. Apple Footer. A subscription is required for some Apple Music features. 4K, 4K HDR, 4K Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, and HDR10 content is available on all Mac models introduced in 2018 or later with 4K-resolution screens.
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Features are subject to change. Some features, applications, and services may not be available in all regions or all languages. The “Voice Control — See Voice Do” video highlights both iOS and macOS accessibility features.
Voice Control is not available in all areas and on all Apple software.
An eGPU can give your Mac additional graphics performance for professional apps, 3D gaming, VR content creation, and more.
eGPUs are supported by any Thunderbolt 3-equipped Mac1 running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later. Learn how to update the software on your Mac.
An eGPU lets you do all this on your Mac:
eGPU support in apps
eGPU support in macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and later is designed to accelerate Metal, OpenGL, and OpenCL apps that benefit from a powerful eGPU. Not all apps support eGPU acceleration; check with the app's developer to learn more.3
In general, an eGPU can accelerate performance in these types of apps:
You can configure applications to use an eGPU with one of the following methods.
Use the Prefer External GPU option
Starting with macOS Mojave 10.14, you can turn on Prefer External GPU in a specific app's Get Info panel in the Finder. This option lets the eGPU accelerate apps on any display connected to the Mac—including displays built in to iMac, iMac Pro, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro:
You won't see this option if an eGPU isn't connected, if your Mac isn't running macOS Mojave or later, or if the app self-manages its GPU selection. Some apps, such as Final Cut Pro, directly choose which graphics processors are used and will ignore the Prefer External GPU checkbox.
Set an external eGPU-connected display as the primary display
If you have an external display connected to your eGPU, you can choose it as the primary display for all apps. Since apps default to the GPU associated with the primary display, this option works with a variety of apps:
If you disconnect the eGPU, your Mac defaults back to the internal graphics processors that drives the built-in display. When the eGPU is re-attached, it automatically sets the external display as the primary display.
About macOS GPU drivers
Mac hardware and GPU software drivers have always been deeply integrated into the system. This design fuels the visually rich and graphical macOS experience as well as many deeper platform compute and graphics features. These include accelerating the user interface, providing support for advanced display features, rendering 3D graphics for pro software and games, processing photos and videos, driving powerful GPU compute features, and accelerating machine learning tasks. This deep integration also enables optimal battery life while providing for greater system performance and stability.
Apple develops, integrates, and supports macOS GPU drivers to ensure there are consistent GPU capabilities across all Mac products, including rich APIs like Metal, Core Animation, Core Image, and Core ML. In order to deliver the best possible customer experience, GPU drivers need to be engineered, integrated, tested, and delivered with each version of macOS. Aftermarket GPU drivers delivered by third parties are not compatible with macOS.
The GPU drivers delivered with macOS are also designed to enable a high quality, high performance experience when using an eGPU, as described in the list of recommended eGPU chassis and graphics card configurations below. Because of this deep system integration, only graphics cards that use the same GPU architecture as those built into Mac products are supported in macOS.
Supported eGPU configurations
It's important to use an eGPU with a recommended graphics card and Thunderbolt 3 chassis. If you use an eGPU to also charge your MacBook Pro, the eGPU's chassis needs to provide enough power to run the graphics card and charge the computer. Check with the manufacturer of the chassis to find out if it provides enough power for your MacBook Pro.
Recommended graphics cards, along with chassis that can power them sufficiently, are listed below.
Thunderbolt 3 all-in-one eGPU products
These products contain a powerful built-in GPU and supply sufficient power to charge your MacBook Pro.
Recommended Thunderbolt 3 all-in-one eGPUs:
AMD Radeon RX 470, RX 480, RX 570, RX 580, and Radeon Pro WX 7100
These graphics cards are based on the AMD Polaris architecture. Recommended graphics cards include the Sapphire Pulse series and the AMD WX series.
Recommended Thunderbolt 3 chassis for these graphics cards:
AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
These graphics cards are based on the AMD Vega 56 architecture. Recommended graphics cards include the Sapphire Vega 56.
Recommended Thunderbolt 3 chassis for these graphics cards:
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64, Vega Frontier Edition Air, and Radeon Pro WX 9100
These graphics cards are based on the AMD Vega 64 architecture. Recommended graphics cards include the Sapphire Vega 64, AMD Frontier Edition air-cooled, and AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100.
Recommended Thunderbolt 3 chassis for these graphics cards:
AMD Radeon RX 5700, 5700 XT, and 5700 XT 50th Anniversary
If you've installed macOS Catalina 10.15.1 or later, you can use these graphics cards that are based on the AMD Navi RDNA architecture. Recommended graphics cards include the AMD Radeon RX 5700, AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, and AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary.
Recommended Thunderbolt 3 chassis for these graphics cards:
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1. If you have a Mac mini (2018) with FileVault turned on, make sure to connect your primary display directly to Mac mini during startup. After you log in and see the macOS Desktop, you can unplug the display from Mac mini and connect it to your eGPU.
2. If you're using a 13-inch MacBook Pro from 2016 or 2017, always plug eGPUs and other high-performance devices into the left-hand ports for maximum data throughput.
3. macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and later don't support eGPUs in Windows using Boot Camp or when your Mac is in macOS Recovery or installing system updates.
4. These chassis provide at least 85 watts of charging power, making them ideal for use with 15-inch MacBook Pro models.
5. Playback of HDCP-protected content from iTunes and some streaming services is not supported on displays attached to Radeon 560-based eGPUs. You can play this content on the built-in display on MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and iMac.
6. If you use Akitio Node with a Mac notebook, you might need to connect your Mac to its power adapter to ensure proper charging.
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