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Yes, that's my impression too. What Mac model exactly is threatened by Hackintoshes? Supposing there's a model that could be hurt by hacks, it would be only the Mac Mini and the New Mac Pro, which are precisely the models that Apple seems to not care at all. Neither none of the Macbooks (which some people buy for installing even Linux on them[*], so their sales aren't threatened by hackintoshes at all), nor the iMac (bought by people who want a great and slim display and don't need cutting-edge performance), have any sales loss at all from hacks.I find it hard to swallow a scenario where Apple feels threatened enough by hackintoshes the they apparently lean on Nvidia to not release Pascal drivers (yet let them continue to release Maxwell drivers, an architecture that has never existed on a mac ever), but don't implement 'anti hackintosh' measures in the base OS to any real degree. They're clearly not THAT threatened here.
Also no one (except for a handful of Nvidia engineers) knows how hard it would be to move to 371 on OSX. OSX has the added complication of requiring they write a Metal driver, which doesn't exist on any other platform. Maybe they could reuse a lot of what they've done for maxwell/kepler/fermi, or maybe it's way more complicated than that. Who knows. Certainly not us.
My feeling is that Apple isn't preventing NVIDIA from releasing Pascal drivers (what's the deal they supposedly made if we are three months away from the date Pascal support was expected to be released, and we still have no evidence of new NVIDIA GPUs in new MacOS betas, and if there are no current NVIDIA GPUs capable of being shipped with current ultraslim Macs? Did they make a deal for buying NVIDIA GPUs in 2018 if they won't release webdrivers?? Come on, it's totally ridiculous!!)
So, I think this looks like if we were in a plane, we notice strange and risky maneuvering, and we start to imagine there's a fight in the cockpit, or the captain got ill, or whatever. But the reality is that the cockpit is empty. Sorry guys, but I think this is the truth: If you open the Mac cockpit, you won't see neither Apple nor NVIDIA, nor Tim, nor anybody there. It's plain empty. Nobody cares.
[*] P.S: In fact, even if I manage to get a Mac-friendly Ubuntu installation, my next laptop will likely be an Apple one, because no other laptops in the market have such a high performance/lightness ratio, and I really need very light laptops -and very heavy desktops-. So, I conclude Apple doesn't care at all about hackintoshes: they'll still get Macbook purchases (they'll lose purchases of heavy desktops but they don't care about that)
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