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- Jul 7, 2015
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z790 UD AX
- CPU
- i7-13700K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mobile Phone
Except that it isn't the exact same 900 users who can upgrade.
Of those Mac users who have 'real' Macs with Nvidia 9xx cards, they are all of course old cheesegrater tower style Mac Pro users with PCI-E expansion (I'm ignoring external GPU users - there's clearly very, very few people doing this. Maybe this will change now TB3 is spreading...). Sierra cuts off support for a lot of these models as per Apple's policy of only supporting hardware up to ~5 years old in OS releases. Now only mid 2010 or later Mac Pro models are officially supported in Sierra. El Capitan supported many more Mac Pro models that were capable of accepting aftermarket graphics cards.
This means the only 'legitimate' customers for an aftermarket Nvidia part are 2010 and 2012 Mac Pro model owners - the total addressable market for the driver is now really small. The cost of engineers plus QA in Santa Clara's insanely expensive labor market for building a driver will easily exceed several hundred thousand dollars - I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we never see it, there's so little money to be made.
this makes no sense. Why would they dismiss the hackintosh market just because it is unofficial? It still makes money, and so counts. Are they not a business?