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    Switching hard drive to different laptop for e-gpu

    Discussion in 'e-GPU (External Graphics) Discussion' started by EpicBlob, Nov 22, 2012.

  1. EpicBlob

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    Hey guys,

    So I currently have my e-gpu working with a 13inch macbook pro under windows 7. My sisters back for thanksgiving and she owns a 2011 15inch macbook pro with a dgpu (I believe its a 6540m).

    My question is whether putting my windows 7 hard drive in her macbook would work without any problems. Would there be driver issues? And all I'd do would be transfer my hard drive caddy into her macbooks disk drive spot. I mostly want to do this to see how much of a boost the quad core i7 would give over my pretty crappy dual core i5. I feel like it could just not recognize anything because the only drivers on the windows 7 drive are for my computer.
     
    EpicBlob, Nov 22, 2012
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