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Re:Remembering Unix Desktops – and What We Can Learn from Them by Thri4895o on Sunday January 28, 2024 @05:51AM (#39164395)
Because the operating system only supports devices with limited memory and storage.

I would love to run macos on my beefy workstation. But MacOS support for AMD Ryzen sucks.

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Re:Remembering Unix Desktops – and What We Can Learn from Them by Aaron2222 on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:20AM (#39164574)
It's not that Mac hardware is only available with limited memory and storage (you can get a MacBook Pro with 128 GB of RAM and 8 TB of storage, or you can get a Mac Pro and throw in a bunch of M.2 drives on PCIe cards), it's just that the pricing on them is ridiculous.
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Re:Remembering Unix Desktops – and What We Can Learn from Them by steve1977 on Sunday January 28, 2024 @07:39AM (#39165113)
But that’s not a problem of macOS.
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Re:Remembering Unix Desktops – and What We Can Learn from Them by pdpi on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:14AM (#39165395)
It's not a problem of macOS in the strictest sense but we're talking about highly vertically integrated platforms. You don't get macOS without a mac, so it _is_ a macOS problem in that sense.
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