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I don't know how Apple has evaded regulatory scrutiny for their refusal to sign Nvidia's eGPU drivers since 2018.
The same way Google evaded regulatory scrutiny for refusing to allow a YouTube client for Windows Phone?
Such a shame both companies are big on vanity to make great things happen. Imagine where you could run Mac hardware with nvidia on linux. It's all there, and closed walls are what's not allowing it to happen. That's what we as customers lose when we forego control of what we purchase to those that sold us the goods.
I don't know how Apple has evaded regulatory scrutiny for their refusal to sign Nvidia's eGPU drivers since 2018.
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Apple was the only one stopping themselves from getting back in. It's not like the Mac is a trillion-dollar market segment to begin with.
Almost everyone including myself had MacBook Pros at my last place of work. If Apple was in the high-end server market, I see no reason why the company I was working for would not be running macOS on Apple hardware as servers, instead of the fleet of Linux based servers they had.
I don't know how Apple has evaded regulatory scrutiny for their refusal to sign Nvidia's eGPU drivers since 2018.
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The same way Google evaded regulatory scrutiny for refusing to allow a YouTube client for Windows Phone?
Internet Explorer Mobile is a YouTube client. You're describing a client-server disagreement when the user is talking about an entirely client-based conflict.
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You can buy a cheap GPU enclosure for about 100$ off ali express. Takes a standard PSU. However, Mac Minis don't have occulink. So you might be a bit limited by whatever USB C can do. Now if Intel can get there Arc drivers in order we'll see some real budget fun. https://www.newegg.com/intel-arc-pro-b70-32gb-graphics-card/... 32 GB of VRAM for 1000$. Plus a 500$ Mac Mini.
Those $100 ones don't come with a cage. If you do want a cage, you'll end up with $180 in total, with zero warranty. Article mentions: "Apple finally approved our driver for both AMD and NVIDIA" Does not mention Intel (GPUs). Select AMD GPUs work on macOS, but... Macs (both Intel and ARM) support TB, but eGPU only work on Intel Macs, and basically only with AMD. Good news is for medium end gaming choices are solid, a…
I own one of these, the cage is just a piece of plastic. Anyway, I don't think 80$ is that big of a difference here. I can't really afford a 4k Nvidia GPU. Intel is my only hope.
I don't know how Apple has evaded regulatory scrutiny for their refusal to sign Nvidia's eGPU drivers since 2018.
The government doesn’t care? They’re a minority of the market? The vast majority of their computers didn’t have slots to put Nvidia GPUs in, and now none of them do?
I'm writing scientific software that has components (molecular dynamics) that are much faster on GPU. I'm using CUDA only, as it's the eaisiest to code for. I'd assumed this meant no-go on ARM Macs. Does this news make that false?
Woah, this is exciting. I'm traveling but I have a 5090 lying around at home. I'm eager to give it a go. Docs are here: https://docs.tinygrad.org/tinygpu/ I hope it'll work on an M4 Mac Mini. Does anyone know what hardware to get? You'll need a full ATX PSU to supply power, right? And then tinygrad can do LLM inference on it?
You can buy a cheap GPU enclosure for about 100$ off ali express. Takes a standard PSU. However, Mac Minis don't have occulink. So you might be a bit limited by whatever USB C can do. Now if Intel can get there Arc drivers in order we'll see some real budget fun. https://www.newegg.com/intel-arc-pro-b70-32gb-graphics-card/... 32 GB of VRAM for 1000$. Plus a 500$ Mac Mini.