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Will an Akitio Node work with a 2015 15in MacBook Pro? Anyone doing this as their setup?

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I have one, with dedicated graphics card (AMD R9 M370X) want to know whether it would work because of the possible incompatibility of the thunderbolt controller (TI86/87) of the Node

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I think I have a similar question. I have a macbook 13" (late 2013) and want to know if this will work with the Akitio Thunder3 with the Apple Thunderbolt 3 to 2 converter cable. I want the Akitio thunder3 as I'll upgrade my macbook in a year or two and want to future proof my purchases. Would like to get definite confirmation from someone who has tried it themselves.

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it's a bidirectional adapter. so you can use it with a thunderbolt cable to connect the node into a 2015 MBP. i haven't yet got mine working (work in progess), but i have managed to get my gtx egpu recognised in device manager, and i saw it in msi afterburner too. but still working on it, as for some reason nvidia driver won't install, gets stuck on preparing to install. 

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I have a Mid 2014 15" MacBook Pro. The Thunderbolt 3->2 adapter+ Thunderbolt 2 cable from the Apple store works fine. I have the Akitio Node Thunder 3( https://www.akitio.com/expansion/node)  with a GTX 1080TI working on Windows 10 via bootcamp and Mac OS v 10.12.5.

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