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“You can’t rebuild your kernel.” Are you kidding me? Apple supports the hardware it ships on day one, then provides free updates until the device is obsolete.

“You can’t rebuild your kernel.” Are you kidding me? Apple supports the hardware it ships on day one, then provides free updates until the device is obsolete. If you must rebuild Apple’s OSS kernel, you can follow the instructions here: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/build/build.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...

omnifischer 7y ago
what means device is obsolete? Do you mean i3 cannot handle general browsing tasks? Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
- derefr 7y ago
  It means "until the third-party developers in the OS's application ecosystem have changed their definition of 'state of the art' to include the use of enough new layers of bloat that old devices can no longer run the newest [versions of] apps." An obsolete laptop is the same as an obsolete phone: it's one where it chugs when opening Spotify, or Slack, or any other "nobody ever bothered to optimize this" app that everyone uses anyway. Or, to put that another way: you can certainly retouch photos in GIMP, or even in Paint Shop Pro 7 on Windows XP. But what if you want to use seam-carving in your photo-retouching? PSP7 ain't got that. Once you know that your use-case dictates a modern version of some memory-hogging software, well, that constraint dictates what kind of computer is "obsolete" or not for you.
robert_foss 7y ago
What about hardware Apple doesn't ship? Or support that is buggy? What about GPU support using a non Apple-only APIs (I'm looking at you Metal).
- pjmlp 7y ago
  > What about GPU support using a non Apple-only APIs (I'm looking at you Metal). My Unity projects work out of the box.
rocky1138 7y ago
> the device is obsolete. One of my biggest complaints about Apple is the difference between what I consider to be obsolete and what they do.

omnifischer 7y ago

what means device is obsolete? Do you mean i3 cannot handle general browsing tasks? Please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

derefr 7y ago
It means "until the third-party developers in the OS's application ecosystem have changed their definition of 'state of the art' to include the use of enough new layers of bloat that old devices can no longer run the newest [versions of] apps." An obsolete laptop is the same as an obsolete phone: it's one where it chugs when opening Spotify, or Slack, or any other "nobody ever bothered to optimize this" app that everyone uses anyway. Or, to put that another way: you can certainly retouch photos in GIMP, or even in Paint Shop Pro 7 on Windows XP. But what if you want to use seam-carving in your photo-retouching? PSP7 ain't got that. Once you know that your use-case dictates a modern version of some memory-hogging software, well, that constraint dictates what kind of computer is "obsolete" or not for you.

robert_foss 7y ago

What about hardware Apple doesn't ship? Or support that is buggy? What about GPU support using a non Apple-only APIs (I'm looking at you Metal).

pjmlp 7y ago
> What about GPU support using a non Apple-only APIs (I'm looking at you Metal). My Unity projects work out of the box.

rocky1138 7y ago

> the device is obsolete. One of my biggest complaints about Apple is the difference between what I consider to be obsolete and what they do.