It doesn't have to provisioning for fire-breathing GPU cores, but there needs to be something.Īnd some 2.5' SATA 3 SSD really isn't a modern, high bandwidth load storage drive anymore. But enough to stuff 2-4 M.2 SSDs inside on a x8 PCI-e v4 socket would be a basic minimal not to repeat the same mistake they clearly said they saw before. So admitting that and they hypocritically releasing yet another Mac Pro with exactly the same problem will get tons of blowback. Apple even admitted as such in their April 2017 'dog ate my homework' session on why the MP 2013 had stumbled. Having one, and only one, internal drive doesn't really met the requirements of a lot of 'high bandwidth' workloads. One of several significant problems with the 'not slots' position is that it runs 100% counter to Apple's move and focus on SSD drives as being the primary target storage media. The 'good' news is that Apple are still selling pre-T1 Intel Mac Minis so they won't be dropping pre-T1 x86 support just yet - but those old x86 drivers are probably never going to see ARM versions. (I'm not sure that there is some all-encompassing hardware standard for ARM-based systems to compare to the 'x86 PC compatible' de-facto standard)Įven with Intel, reality is that the writing was on the wall for Hackintosh as soon as Apple started using the T1/T2 chip - once pre-T1 machines pass out of support, Apple will be free to remove all the x86 drivers for pre-T1, third-party controllers from future versions of MacOS and, potentially, lock down MacOS to require the security features in T1/T2. In any case, MacOS on ARM will depend on Apple-written drivers for M1 graphics and the M1 SSD controller - let alone all the security stuff that depends on the M1's security features. M1 may use the ARM instruction set, but Apple have added their own features so it's doubtful that MacOS will run at all on other ARM processors. M1 Macs differ substantially from both PCs and other ARM-based systems.

that Macs used (not to dismiss for one moment all the fine work the Hackintosh community did in making this as close as possible to a click-and-drool experience).

Intel Macs were, pretty much, PC clones with nicer trackpads, some of the legacy stuff omitted, hence Windows could run on Macs, and building a Hackintosh mainly meant choosing hardware with the same 3rd party chips for graphics, storage controllers, networking, sound etc.

Protools on 2017 mac pro waste basket