lol, is there a list of games tho, which mac pro's can support
RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
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Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Or, it will acknowledge that it made a mistake and continue to make the same mistake again. People do this too though. At least the AI generally tries to follow instructions that you give it even when you are lacking clarity in the details. I feel like it's similar to the self-driving car problem. The car could have 99.9999% reliability, drive much better and safer than a human, yet folks will still freak out about…
> Your Google search results are wrong all the time too. The NYT writes things that are factually incorrect. This is also very bad and people complain about these things all the fucking time . > Why do we have such a high standard for these models Because Altman and Amodei are defrauding investors out of hundreds of billions of dollars on the promise that they will replace the entire workforce. Of course people are g…
> This is also very bad and people complain about these things all the fucking time.
So at worst these AI tools are as bad as the existing system. Worth complaining about? Absolutely. Worth holding to much higher standards? Nah I don't think so. Not at this stage at least. And folks are just disappointing themselves by setting up straw men expectations.
These tools are non-deterministic systems (like humans) which sometimes don't do exactly what you want (like humans) but are also extremely fast, much cheaper (for now), and have domain knowledge generation that is much broader than any single human has. Like anything else, there are pros and cons.
Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Your Google search results are wrong all the time too. The NYT writes things that are factually incorrect. This is also very bad and people complain about these things all the fucking time . > Why do we have such a high standard for these models Because Altman and Amodei are defrauding investors out of hundreds of billions of dollars on the promise that they will replace the entire workforce. Of course people are g…
> This is also very bad and people complain about these things all the fucking time. So at worst these AI tools are as bad as the existing system. Worth complaining about? Absolutely . Worth holding to much higher standards? Nah I don't think so. Not at this stage at least. And folks are just disappointing themselves by setting up straw men expectations. These tools are non-deterministic systems (like humans) which s…
They aren't "straw man expectations" when the entire US economy is now oriented around those expectations.
Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
#64Once egpus work on Apple Silicon there will be little reason to own a pc
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Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
#65Once egpus work on Apple Silicon there will be little reason to own a pc
Mac GPU isn't the bottleneck for most games. Compatibility is.
Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Or, it will acknowledge that it made a mistake and continue to make the same mistake again. People do this too though. At least the AI generally tries to follow instructions that you give it even when you are lacking clarity in the details. I feel like it's similar to the self-driving car problem. The car could have 99.9999% reliability, drive much better and safer than a human, yet folks will still freak out about…
> Your Google search results are wrong all the time too. The NYT writes things that are factually incorrect. This is also very bad and people complain about these things all the fucking time . > Why do we have such a high standard for these models Because Altman and Amodei are defrauding investors out of hundreds of billions of dollars on the promise that they will replace the entire workforce. Of course people are g…
> ruining HN with 10 articles on the front page per day about how software engineering is dead.
Even this article, which is theoretically about playing games on a MacBook and not about AI, has devolved into AI discussions. It's honestly kind of tiring.
I suppose the article invites it by putting an AI blurb up top, and I suppose I'm also not helping by adding my own comment, but _still_.
Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
#67I have been bothering the VM team for years for VM GPU pass through. I worked on the Apple Silicon Mac Pro and it would have made way more sense if you could run a linux VM and pass through the GPU that goes inside the case! Sadly, as you can tell, they have not taken me up on my requests. Awesome that other people got it working!
It feels like half the problem in this blog post is dealing with memory access issues induced by QEMU and the VM boundary... it's probably something dumb I'm missing, but if you boot up Ubuntu in Docker, wouldn't the NVIDIA drivers still load? And then you wouldn't have to fight Apple about the memory management because OSX would still own the memory?
docker on macos runs in a linux vm
Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
#68Earlier 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. I don’t know about that. Apple supported some full size GPUs in past product lines and the number of users was very small. Granted, LLMs change that demand but the audience for Mac Pro buyers who would use a full-size GPU that is impossible to obtain is almost nothing compared to their lap…
The audience for Mac Pro buyers is almost nothing, full stop. It failed to find a niche, and now Apple is getting rid of it: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-mac-... Part of the reason the new Mac Pro failed to find an audience can definitely be blamed on macOS' hostility to third party hardware. Who knows what Apple would be worth if they beat Nvidia's Grace CPU to the datacenter market. It wa…
True, they could do any number of things. But a datacenter play would appear quite random to investors and their core audience. Broadcom + Nvidia however...
Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
#69> 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 hanging an RTX 5090 off of a M4. Still, kudos to the scott and the local AI Inference speeds are pretty cool. What a crazy project!
Re: RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?
#70Once egpus work on Apple Silicon there will be little reason to own a pc
I assume your reasons are different to mine so for your reasons it might very well be true. But for my reasons definitely not as long as Apple Silicon can't run Linux somewhat decently natively - and even then, it's still an Apple..