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Hackintosh killer?

• alanfranz 7y ago
  I wonder why the downvotes. Hackintoshes generally have SIP disabled. Maybe all those video editing workstations were hackintosh machines. There's very little reason to disable SIP otherwise, unless such "damage" was performed by some specialized software. I didn't mean "google is intentionally killing hackintosh systems".
  • pinewurst 7y ago
    I think deactivating SIP is necessary to use non-supported graphics boards (e.g. NVIDIA) which aren't uncommon for video editing.
  • bradleybuda 7y ago
    The article discusses this - SIP often disabled in this industry to install unsuppoted graphics drivers.
    • alanfranz 7y ago
      Makes sense. Thanks.
  • erichocean 7y ago
    > There's very little reason to disable SIP otherwise This…is not true. It's not just Hackintoshes, it's ANY hardware that lacks a SIP-compliant driver. Avid editors use a lot of hardware, hence frequently MUST disable SIP. But sure: blame the user.
    • alanfranz 7y ago
      No blame. Just curiosity.
  • pixelbath 7y ago
    I'm guessing because your original post contained didn't explain any of that; it did indeed seem like you were implying this update was aimed at hackintoshes. From my experience, very few of those video editing workstations were likely anything but official Apple hardware. Hollywood (and connected) studios have far too much money invested into their ventures to take a chance on unsupported hardware/software combinations to that degree.