Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powerful Mac ever"

Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by BenzinNZ on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:09PM (#14489826)

I believe that OSX is optimized for Intel's brand of x86 - might have been too much effort to switch vendors when it comes to future kernel support.

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by dom0 on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:14PM (#14489883)

macOS does not seem like an OS that has been optimized much at all in regards to the CPU.

Also, Apple dragged macOS from PPC to x86; switching x86 implementations is no big deal for the rest of the world, it surely should not be a challenge for Apple.

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Re:Apple Teases Upcoming Space Gray iMac Pro, "the most powe... by floatboth on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:05PM (#14492038)

Yeah. People have done AMD Hackintoshes. It's more likely that they have some agreement with Intel that prevents them from going AMD for the CPU.

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