Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS Mojave

Re:Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS M... by bjpbakker on Thursday December 13, 2018 @08:55AM (#18672302)

> Can you just not write graphics drivers for macOS?

So this is seriously what you suggest owners of an older MBP (official Apple hardware, just over 4 years old) to do?

Since both Apple's drivers and NVidia's drivers are completely closed source, I'd say it's hardly possible to write a working driver (w/ hardware acceleration) for it.

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Re:Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS M... by saagarjha on Thursday December 13, 2018 @01:39PM (#18674796)

I’m quoting an NVIDIA engineer here; I’m asking why they can’t write their own driver instead of waiting for Apple. (Though, I’m sure that people in the Hackintosh community would not shy away from stepping up if asked…)

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Re:Apple Turns Its Back on Customers and Nvidia with MacOS M... by bjpbakker on Thursday December 13, 2018 @02:14PM (#18675101)

Since it's hardware sold by Apple I would assume that Apple figures that out with NVIDIA and collaborates. Apparently I'm wrong and Apple just doesn't give a crap as long as they can sell new products.

For a hobby computer it can be interesting to write your own driver. For a professional laptop not so much :)

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