6 comments

  • solyin 4 minutes ago
    Got any pictures of the setup? Which enclosure did you use? Neat!
  • tgma 31 minutes ago
    Would be interesting to render a real desktop environment directly on top of that from the iPad. You'd get an OpenDarwin-like thing with the power of M4.
  • mkesper 1 hour ago
    Unexpected interpretation of on-device inference:

        It drives an AMD GPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure.
    
    But interesting it's possible to run Linux drivers on an iPad.
  • bsaul 1 hour ago
    can someone explains this project ? i understand nothing about what it's doing... Do iPads have amd gpus ??
    • p0w3n3d 1 hour ago
      You get an AMD GPU, put it in an external case ("enclosure") connect it with usb-c or thunderbolt and that's what's being used in the app. For inference of course
    • haunter 12 minutes ago
      iPad <- Thunderbolt cable -> GPU in external enclousre
  • skavi 28 minutes ago
    what's with this driver being coupled to an IDE? is one the psychosis enabled bikeshed of the other?
  • sneak 40 minutes ago
    It's super cool, but then, the question becomes: why?

    The eGPU enclosure isn't portable, so at that point, you could just plug it into a linux mini-pc. What's the benefit of using an iPad here?

    • edg5000 28 minutes ago
      For people who prefer a touchscreen input over a laptop, and if they'd want to do agentic work, or perhaps text to speech, image generation, music production, fancy spellcheck while traveling?