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>Later on I got to read a lot about the Kexts that basically are the equivalent of the drivers in microsoft windows and look for the ones that would serve me fo
by ComodoHacker 9y ago
>Later on I got to read a lot about the Kexts that basically are the equivalent of the drivers in microsoft windows and look for the ones that would serve me for my video card, Everything worked fine.
>A few months passed until Yosemite came out, with a renewed interface a lot of improvements, and even included support for my set up
>But I did the same again when buying my new GT520 card. And to this day everything has worked perfectly
This makes me wonder whether his hardware happened to be used in some Macs or Apple deliberately made those drivers for Hackintosh users?
- microcolonel 9y agoThe NVIDIA drivers are written by NVIDIA. I'm sure they use the same codebase across platforms because I've seen the same shader compiler crashes (doh!) on OS X with NVIDIA as on Windows and Linux. They have to support a pretty wide array of hardware in case somebody plugs it in to one of the PC-style Mac Pros which nobody seems to remember.
- wtallis 9y agoApple tends to ship drivers that will work with almost any GPU from the same product family and generation as the chips Apple is actually using. They could definitely do more to lock things down if they wanted to. I suspect that the slight lost hardware revenue is significantly offset by the App Store revenue and long-term benefits of keeping users on the Apple platform, so Apple doesn't have strong motivation to get in the way of Hackintosh use.
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