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But overall, the experience sounds like a good one. King said that not all of the Boot Camp drivers automatically installed, there’s no Bluetooth support and some Windows apps (like Steam) look blurry because they don’t support the full resolution of the Retina display. If you’re fortunate enough to have taken delivery of your own Retina MacBook and want to try the experiment for yourself, be prepared for a few glitches along the way. It’s remarkable, and it makes me believe in the 12-inch MacBook more than ever before. Here, even after some Aero Glass transparency has been added in, everything is smooth. Even when I turn Transparency off in OS X, Mission Control isn’t completely smooth. It’s unequivocally better than performance on OS X, further leading me to believe that Apple really needs to overhaul how animations are done. It renders at 60FPS unless you have a lot going on.

The comment was made by Computer Science major Alex King, who tried upgrading his Boot Camp installation of Windows 8.1 to the preview of Windows 10. One of the first people to try Windows 10 on the new Retina MacBook says that it actually runs more smoothly than OS X. Watch our full walkthrough, as we showcase this simple and compact eGPU solution on video. The setup also lets you tap into the power of the GPU right from your MacBook Pro’s built-in display, no external display required. The now-available $249 Akitio Thunder3 is much smaller than the larger Akitio Node, so it takes up a smaller footprint on your desk. Instead, you can utilize a Boot Camp installation, and turn your MacBook Pro into a 1080p gaming machine.

That’s not to say that you should run out and buy a Windows laptop if you want to play the latest games requiring a more powerful GPU. It should come as no surprise that the setup process and support with Windows is, in some ways, quite a bit better than using an eGPU with macOS. While that solution yielded definite benefits, it was also hindered by difficulties caused by macOS itself. In our previous tutorial, we showed you how to wield an AMD RX 480 in macOS. As we’ve shown in a previous post, an eGPU can make a significant performance difference, turning an otherwise graphically pedestrian MacBook Pro into a competent gaming machine.

While they’ve existed before the most recent MacBook Pro, the surge of interest in external GPUs is largely thanks to the implementation of Thunderbolt 3 in the latest Mac hardware.