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Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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This page would look better if they used high-quality 3d animated renders instead of the simplified 2D-graphics. Someone on the design team thought this was a great idea? It looks unpolished and out of place (in comparison to other well-done Apple product pages).

Because it's not a product page, it's a spec sheet.

I personally think the understated 2D graphics are a cool touch. It's actually quite polished in its simplicity.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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post #94

The biggest new feature im looking for is the removal of the touchbar. Until then, I’m going to just buy upgraded but used 2012-2013 macbook pros. It’s one of those sounds good on paper but useless in real life. Not only that, it’s a hindrance for coders like me who need to be able to hit the escape button and other top buttons quickly with force feedback.

I'm not sure why people are downvoting you. I hate this feature on HN. I cant even read what you said.

It looks like any slight mention of negativity towards Apple are being downvoted.

The force is strong with this one.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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post #137

I wish I could afford these, but I’m really curious to test a hackintosh with threadreaper 3 following what they did on Linus tech tips with a virtualized PC and Mac running at the same time on the same monitor https://youtu.be/EozeSDeV3Vo

Hackintosh allows you to have OS X on better hardware but these days it's really unsafe, due to the possibility of Apple going full ARM in the near future, dropping all the support for x86.

Considering they just spent possibly 6 years designing this crazy expensive x86 beast, I don't think support is going to drop that hard that fast to warrant avoiding x86.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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post #137

I wish I could afford these, but I’m really curious to test a hackintosh with threadreaper 3 following what they did on Linus tech tips with a virtualized PC and Mac running at the same time on the same monitor https://youtu.be/EozeSDeV3Vo

Hackintosh allows you to have OS X on better hardware but these days it's really unsafe, due to the possibility of Apple going full ARM in the near future, dropping all the support for x86.

> but these days it's really unsafe

How is it different than buying a Mac now? It also won't upgrade itself to an ARM processor and they'd need to support existing macOS installations for a while anyway.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have an HEDT but an outdated Haswell i5 laptop (not an Ultra Low Voltage model at least, so it's quite fast). Last year I spotted a bug in Firefox and I though it was time to put a line in the contribution section in my resume. The contribution experience was a nightmare because a full build of Firefox took 3 hrs and running the entire testing framework took 4 hrs, though it turned out that I needed to run on…

Woof. I wasn't aware compilation times got that long for people who aren't building a whole OS.

I wouldn't try contributing if I were aware of it too lol. Imagine that I did it for Chromium. I was told that it takes about 20GB to build Chromium.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why people are downvoting you. I hate this feature on HN. I cant even read what you said.

It looks like any slight mention of negativity towards Apple are being downvoted. The force is strong with this one.

No, it's not that. It's that you are posting about some unrelated gripe with another product line that's off-topic in this Mac Pro thread.

As for the other comments complaining about downvoting, it's discouraged in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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post #137

I wish I could afford these, but I’m really curious to test a hackintosh with threadreaper 3 following what they did on Linus tech tips with a virtualized PC and Mac running at the same time on the same monitor https://youtu.be/EozeSDeV3Vo

Hackintosh allows you to have OS X on better hardware but these days it's really unsafe, due to the possibility of Apple going full ARM in the near future, dropping all the support for x86.

That logic is a bit strange.

When / if Apple stop support for x86 any Apple computer purchased before they go ARM will essentially be end of life.

If you do not want to build a hackintosh because of ARM in the future you also do not want to buy a Apple x86 computer today.

Re: New Mac Pro Tech Specs

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post #137

I wish I could afford these, but I’m really curious to test a hackintosh with threadreaper 3 following what they did on Linus tech tips with a virtualized PC and Mac running at the same time on the same monitor https://youtu.be/EozeSDeV3Vo

Hackintosh allows you to have OS X on better hardware but these days it's really unsafe, due to the possibility of Apple going full ARM in the near future, dropping all the support for x86.

Not a chance, the Mac Pro isn't even out yet and it's Xeon, so x86 support will be in Mac OS for at least the next 10 years. There's just nothing from ARM that can compete with Xeon at any price. I wouldn't be surprised to see it in the low-end laptops within 5 years, but x86 is still safe as houses.
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