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RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
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#142Once egpus work on Apple Silicon there will be little reason to own a pc
Man, Apple fans are still proving the stereotype to be accurate after 20 years.
Ignoring the fact that the Mac OS gets in your way every time you try to do something that Apple doesn't like, with no guarantee that an update won't break anything existing, ignoring the fact that Macs are non repairable, non upgradable, ignoring the fact that they don't support multiple displays flawlessly, I hope you realize that egpu support natively is NEVER coming to Macs, because why the fuck would they enable it when they can just charge you full price for a desktop computer? Apple is built on the sole image that Apple users have money, so buying another Mac Mini or Mac Pro in addition to your laptop is what you are supposed to do.
Android is way ahead of Mac with Android Desktop mode and Samsung Dex, to the point where you don't even need to own a laptop anymore. Ive been using my S24/S25 with lapdock for over 3 years now as a laptop, and it works flawlessly. Apple can easily do this with iPhone, but they won't because that means one less macbook purchase.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still believe the lack of NVIDIA GPU support in the Mac Pro will go down as one of the greatest missed opportunities in tech. Anyway, the Mac Pro is dead now. There's only so much sales audio and video professionals can provide.
There was some bad history between Apple and Nvidia. Perhaps with a new generation of leadership at Apple things might change. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/1hmgmuf/apples_hi...
I wasn't in the room when it happened, but this is very different than the story told internally about why Apple became allergic to Nvidia.
Arguably more petty. SJ has been dead for almost 15 year now, I imagine the C-suite might get over it at some point.
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#144> Because OpenGL is not well-supported anymore on macOS, the game is completely unplayable there, even with CrossOver. Ironically, it plays totally fine on a Windows PC, but this is a game you literally can’t play on Mac without this eGPU setup. I understand that this is true it seems that Doom does support Vulkan but you would need to add VK_NV_glsl_shader to MoltenVK. Probably much less work than what went into han…
interesting. that might be a fun intro project to MoltenVK. I hadn't dug into what was missing for Doom. I thought maybe the issue was that the intro/menu always ran in opengl mode or something. If it's just one missing op, that's way easier.
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#145Excellent article. The game benchmarks are fun but the LLM improvements are where this gets really interesting for practical use. I love Apple platforms as an approachable way to run local models with a lot of RAM, but their relatively slow prompt processing speed is often overlooked. > Here you can see the big issue with Macs: the prompt processing (aka “prefill”) speed. It just gets worse and worse, the longer the…
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#146I love how its listed as "RTX 5090 Discrete' Sir that is anything but discrete!
i admit, you got me chuckling with that one.
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#147Once egpus work on Apple Silicon there will be little reason to own a pc
The only thing Apple silicon has going for it is power use and that gap is getting closed. I can't really see any reason why I would switch to Mac, it just seems like you pay a lot more for a closed expensive environment that fights you at every step.
I'll never pay anyone for a developer licence or fee either. They can sponsor me to port my software to their platform.
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#148I'm impressed by the effort and the technical know-how.
Another part of me is almost annoyed that Apple's complete apathy toward obvious computing use cases like this is rewarded by a project like this. I feel like Macs and macOS should not be rewarded for being so difficult to extend and use outside of Apple's narrow vision of the use case of their hardware.
Apple used to support this use case wholeheartedly, but we can see that it's abandoned on their end: Intel-only, and the newest generation of AMD GPUs supported are the 6000 series: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102363
I got tired of rewarding Apple for refusing to make a computer that makes the most of the technology available. This stuff is all a lot worse than just moving over to Linux or even Windows. With hardware like the Framework 13 Pro coming out, along with a surprisingly good set of premium PC laptops, I really don't think the Mac hardware is worth it anymore. Others have legitimately caught up, especially with Apple's aging MacBook Pro chassis with the horrible notch.
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#149It renders according to the Blackwell and Hopper 100.
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#150I just want to point out that anything you ask ChatGPT about that hasn't been discussed 1000 times on Reddit or Wikipedia is going to be wrong, and it will only be "right" in the sense that it aligns with the artificial consensus created on those platforms.
Of course the author probably did that as a joke.