Dear Diary: USB 3.0 on my MacBook

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:45:28 +0000

Here’s the tale of getting USB 3.0 working in a tolerable regard on my 17" MacBook Pro.

In short, it cost me about $10 and I had to install a custom, but generic kext to enable USB 3.0. Thankfully, all the heavy lifting was done for me by people with far more free time (lucky freaks).

Here’s a visual of my final result:

So come along with me on my tale of computery enhancement.

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Dear Diary: USB 3.0 on my MacBook