• @NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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      017 hours ago

      ARM macOS doesn’t but x86 CPUs are still supported by macOS for the time being. It’ll be a sad day for the Hackintosh community when they drop that support though

        • @NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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          That’s what I’m hoping but I believe the instruction set is different enough that there’d have to be emulation which would tank performance? Admittedly this isn’t really my area of expertise though so I have no idea

    • You could get it to run without a problem, but I don’t understand why they would portray macOS as having heavier requirements than windows. Of the two, macOS is an order of magnitude cheaper to run than Windows.

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        their os is also unix-based

        id take it over windows these days if it werent as locked down as it is.

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        Yah, like, there is plenty of negative things to say about Apple, but they’re actually pretty good about keeping their stuff efficient.

        Like, there is a reason they could get away with 4GBs of ram in the Mac book air as late as 2016.

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            Their competition is literally the rest of the personal computer market?

            The places where they violate trust law is in cellphone software, where the use market influence in hardware to force market influence in software and then extract undue fees from other companies.

          • I have an old MacBook (2012) that runs macOS 10.13 (High Sierra, released in 2017) on 4GB RAM. I use it a couple times a year if I need to compile something for Mac x86 and don’t want to spend time setting up cross-compiling from my newer (M1) machine.

            That MacBook is literally 13 years old, and the only upgrade I’ve given it is a new SSD back around 2018. It runs just fine.

            Rip on the walled garden all you like, but if you want an OS with the stability and simplicity of a commercial OS, together with unix compatibility and a shell that lets you do whatever you want… macOS is your best bet. Using it literally feels like using a commercially polished and widely supported version of Linux.

              • @thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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                I could definitely run Linux on the machine, no doubt it would work even better then. In fact I have an old Ubuntu partition on it that I haven’t booted in years, but which worked fine when I last used it.

                However, the only purpose that machine serves at the moment is being an x86 Mac with a toolchain for compiling whatever, so that I can quickly compile distributables whenever I need to distribute something for x86 mac and don’t want to spend time setting up a full pipeline for cross compiling (once or maybe twice a year).

    • @webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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      01 day ago

      Looks like somehow could not afford their holographic gaming pc sticker skin for their mac pro tower.

      Sucks to be you my friend.