Latest Apple rumor: Mac Pro desktop to be updated with Ivy Bridge-E processors ...
20.05.12
The real question I want to know is while apple continues to build off of PC hardware, why are PC users with the right hardware not allowed to run OSX. As of the end of last year, all newer chipsets are made with UEFI. With apple supporting more intel chipsets and our hardware. why must I have to pay the Apple tax to run OSX if i wanted to? Once apple starts building machines with AMD then where will the difference be? They will have both Intel and Amd chipset like all windows users. Never mind that OSX can't fully support virtualization which is one of the biggest key benefits of any intel processor made in the last 5 years or more. I mean 10.7 installed just fine on my i5-2500k and z68 chipset with a little tool and a retail OSX disc.
Now, explain to us again why we have to pay $2,500 for the same thing I built for $434? The only difference now is thunderbolt and that wont be for long. Where are all the devices for thunderbolt? Has apple not okay'd anything but monitors yet? Once
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