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Blackberry, Palm and Windows Phone (Microsoft) all had their chance to crush Apple when Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007, but they didn't. They dismissed it, laughed about it, made snide comments and went about their "tried and true" methods of serving the market. Which one of these...

Ordinarily, I would agree with you that Apple would abandon Metal, but it well and truly can't at this point. It underlies macOS, iOs, watchOS and tvOS and they can't just ignore it. Metal will stay alive because too many platforms depend on it now, and not just a small marketshare, niche...

Or, and please hear me out on this, most Pros can hop on Apple's website and max out a 27" 5K iMac with 64GB of RAM, 2TB of flash and a 4.2Ghz 7700K for $5458.00 and be better served by a single thread/multithread beast that should chew through all but the heaviest multi-threaded tasks for whom...

Pascal as a BTO option? Uh, no, never going to happen. Apple engineers have tested and tuned their thermal architecture with the Vega 56 and Vega 64 GPU and NVIDIA isn't making it inside another Apple chassis for a good, long time...never say never, but not in this decade and probably not the...

The Late 2013 Mac Pro worked in a more confined space with two GPUs and seemed to be just fine - http://www.anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013/14 - while no one knows for sure until the iMac Pro ships, I'm fairly sure that Apple's engineers are aware of the thermal issues they're...

So the takeaway for the Hackintosh community is the following: formal Kaby Lake support (not necessarily Z270, but most likely), AMD RX5xx-series GPU support and HD6xx-series GPU support. Am I missing anything?

I read a rumor quite a while ago that Apple was moving back to coastal themed names for future versions of macOS, but I think they're going to stick with something mountain/forest themed. My pick is Sequoia...based on moving down the map, from Yosemite National to Sierra National Forest and...

Probably the most future proof Z170 motherboard out there right now is the Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Designare. Yes, it is ATX, but it has two USB-C/TB3 ports, M.2, U.2, DDR4/4000 and a slew of PCIe slots, one of which is x4 for a PCIe SSD or the Alpine Ridge card (should it actually ship), 2 PCIe x16...

Unfortunately, UltraHD/4K encoding is extremely CPU intensive, so even an i7-3770K may not be worth your time and money (checked eBay ~$200). You may want to rethink your need for 4K. Be prepared to move to a Z170/Kaby Lake CPU or even begin looking at an X99 chipset and CPU (5820K, 6800K, et...

Your CPU choice is incorrect. The i7-4790K is a fourth-generation Haswell-based CPU and only works with the Z87/Z97 chipset. You need to spec a sixth-generation Skylake CPU, such as the i5-6600K or the i7-6700K. I would put a higher priority on getting an SSD, perhaps. Toshiba/OCZ TR150 or an...

Your best bet is to go on YouTube and and search for the following channels - BitWit and/or Paul's Hardware (Awesome Sauce Network), Hardware Canucks or Linus Tech Tips. Really easy recommendations are the following: NZXT S340 or H440 (I use a Source 530, myself), Fractal Design Define S or...

Thank you for pointing that out to me, I overlooked it in the detail page on Intel's website. According to the ARK, the Core i7-6920HQ (http://ark.intel.com/products/88972/Intel-Core-i7-6920HQ-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz) does support DDR4-2133, but not LPDDR4...which now makes complete...

Good morning! I watched a live blog of the event at an Apple Store while getting the screen on my 6s Plus replaced. Here are my takeaways in terms of the specs on the new MacBook Pros. CPUs Apple really deviated from what they've used in the past. In parentheses is what they should have used...

Because there hasn't been an update to the Mac Pro in three (3) years, and the Late 2013 is using the Intel X79 chipset, you're probably not going to find many members on this forum who are willing to buy an E5-2697v3 for $2,700.00+ USD to test whether or not they can get it working on an X99...

Thanks for the information. I searched on Amazon and found an 802.11 AC mini-PCIe card from Fenvi that should go with the bare PCIe card, although it only looks like it can only use two of the four antennas provided on the PCIe card - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JY6X9HM/?tag=tonymacx86com-20...