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Hi,
I have a Macbook Pro 2016 which works perfectly fine with an AMD Radeon RX6900XT eGPU with DiffusionBee 1.5.1. (One cannot choose the GPU directly nor does asking the DiffusionBee host app to use the eGPU do anything; one has to open .app bundle in Finder, go into Contents/Frameworks subfolder, do Get Info on each of the helper binaries and tick Prefer External GPU.)
I wanted to compare the performance to 24G Macbook Air M2, but I was slightly surprised to discover latest release says no.
This machine is, without hacks, stuck on macOS 12; presumably the cutoff point for not receiving macOS 13 was because it's got T1 "security chip", so it is forever going to be stuck on macOS 12
Trying several releases, looks like 2.3.0 might be the first incompatible one? I am not sure.
- 2.4.4 is also telling Finder it is incompatible.
- 2.2.1 opens but the model was gone and I had to redownloading. (1.5.1 still showed and loaded the model.) History was available. ~/.diffusionbee still had the MPS-formatted model even before redownloading.
Nothing in notes -- "new UI" or similar -- hints why between 2.2.1 and 2.4.4 something changed. 2.2.1 and 2.5.0 were the ones with "new UI".
A nice thing about this Mac is that, unlike my Apple Silicon Mac, this one takes in 4 displays natively over 4 USB-C/Thunderbolt ports, and even more with judicious use of DisplayLink docking stations and eGPUs, and then on top of that it can still cast to an Apple TV, an iPad and a Apple Silicon Mac.
- Would it be possible to document when the change to drop 12.x happened?
- Could you optionally consider whether it is possible to support macOS 12 for UI, even if 2.5.3's Flux.1 et al cannot be supported?