We Need a Better PC

Re:We Need a Better PC by agentultra on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @11:33AM (#11118995)

You'll need an older Mac Pro then. There is quite a bit of proprietary hardware in the new ones that I'm pretty sure have no open source drivers (ie: SMC controller, force touch pad, etc).

Not that the community couldn't find a way to reverse-engineer and build an open source version... but a straight up Ubuntu install on a current-generation Mac Pro is probably the fastest way to kill a battery, processor, flash drive and miss out on taking advantage of the ambient sensors.

To use an unfitting analogy -- you might as well buy a sports car to retrofit it into a classic gremlin.

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Re:We Need a Better PC by kayoone on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @03:48PM (#11121242)

I know that you know but i read this so often i might as well state it: You mean Macbook Pro, Mac Pro is a different product.

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Re:We Need a Better PC by milkytron on Thursday February 18, 2016 @09:03AM (#11125746)

Just out of curiosity, would a Mac Pro booting Ubuntu have similar effects on hardware? Minus the battery

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Re:We Need a Better PC by thescriptkiddie on Thursday February 18, 2016 @09:58AM (#11126143)

On the latest Macbook Pro everything works under Linux except for the webcam and maybe the brightness sensor (it's hard to tell because it doesn't seem to do anything under OSX either).

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