What upsets me about Apple....

[saltyzoo]

Let me preface. I'm a huge fan. I own 4 Macs, an iPhone, iPad, and apple tv..... I own 0 windows products.

But every now and then I have to vent about what annoys me about Apple....

I have a moderately aged Mac Pro that's still got tons of horsepower and isn't that outclassed by the modern equipment. But I can't run the latest OSX on it.

I can run a VM on it that runs the latest OSX, and if I put it all on a nice SSD it'll run pretty much as fast as a latest iMac. But I can't install the latest OSX natively on the equipment. Simply because Apple either doesn't want to test it, or wants to force me to buy a newer computer, or some other random unknown reason. The equipment is clearly able to handle the OS since it can run well in a VM.

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Noy

Ing.

And as annoying as that is, Windows is still not an option.

/rant

Happy Holidays everybody!

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Let me preface. I'm a huge fan. I own 4 Macs, an iPhone, iPad, and apple tv..... I own 0 windows products.

But every now and then I have to vent about what annoys me about Apple....

I have a moderately aged Mac Pro that's still got tons of horsepower and isn't that outclassed by the modern equipment. But I can't run the latest OSX on it.

I can run a VM on it that runs the latest OSX, and if I put it all on a nice SSD it'll run pretty much as fast as a latest iMac. But I can't install the latest OSX natively on the equipment. Simply because Apple either doesn't want to test it, or wants to force me to buy a newer computer, or some other random unknown reason. The equipment is clearly able to handle the OS since it can run well in a VM.

A

Noy

Ing.

And as annoying as that is, Windows is still not an option.

/rant

Happy Holidays everybody!

While I agree with you that this is annoying, there is a good reason for it: The vendor of the GPU that came with that Mac Pro refuses to make 64-bit drivers for it, which are required to boot the 64-bit ML kernel in a usable state.

 

[El Awesome]

While I agree with you that this is annoying, there is a good reason for it: The vendor of the GPU that came with that Mac Pro refuses to make 64-bit drivers for it, which are required to boot the 64-bit ML kernel in a usable state.

Depends which GPU you have. You can throw a GTX 680, which is in the Top 5 of the best GPUs out there in a MP 1.1 and it works.

@OP: You can install ML, but it requires some fiddling. But it shoudln't be too hard. But yes, I totally agree with you, this thing is total ********. Although, you're not missing much with ML. It's crap in general.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1411105/

 

[nxtlukas]

in comparison to that, the '07 MBP still supports the newest OS as it is the oldest model supporting 64bit. I'm pretty lucky with that model...