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Nvidia? Which apple product had Nvidia in it?

by throwaway2990 3y ago

cpuguy83 3y ago
MacBook pros did for awhile until they leaked some detail about an upcoming product and Apple switched vendors.
- windowsrookie 3y ago
  I'm not sure where you heard this from? Back in 2007-2009 Nividia shipped defective GPUs to everyone, including Apple. Every MacBook Pro from that era was affected. Nvidia and Apple couldn't come to an agreement to who should pay for the bad GPUs. It cost Apple a lot of money and Nvidia din't seem to care. After that, Apple slowly started removing Nvidia GPUs from their products. AMD also shipped bad GPU's around ~2011 and Apple went back to Nvidia for a generation or two until AMD sorted their issues out. From Then on it was AMD GPUs only until the M1.
- cpuguy83 3y ago
  Can't reply to the child comment, but... I only found one article about this from back in 2008. It was definitely a thing back then, I just can't find it.... But indeed likely second fiddle to the gpu issues around the same time, I totally forgot about that.
  - TheSpiceIsLife 3y ago
    The comment time stamp is clickable, you should see the reply button there.
    - alvarezbjm-hn 3y ago
      Thank you! I need the cheatsheet for this site.
      - ayewo 3y ago
        Cheatsheet you say? Here you go: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
    - sumedh 3y ago
      Oh wow, I have been on HN for many years, never knew this feature.
deecewan 3y ago
there was a point in time when you could run nvidia gpus in mac pros. there were first-party drivers for nvidia cards on macOS
Fuzzeh 3y ago
My Mid 2014, 15" Macbook Pro has both Intel and Nvidia. Chipset Model: Intel Iris Pro Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M This Macbook pro was a free upgrade from Apple after I'd had 3 mainboard replacements because they'd had faulty GPU's on my 2011 MBP ( see https://web.archive.org/web/20170119031155/https://people.cam.cornell.edu/~zc227/extras/early2011mbp_graphics.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170119031155/https://people.ca... for background) - Basically after I found out what was going on I took my 'repaired' machine home and stress tested it until it failed. After the very quick repeated failures Apple decided to replace my machine completely.
- throwaway2990 3y ago
  So more than “a couple of years ago” Cos been almost 10 years since apple ditched Nvidia.
  - Fuzzeh 3y ago
    I have no idea when they last used nvidia. I'm just answering the question "Which apple product had Nvidia in it"
    - throwaway2990 3y ago
      I asked cos the person I replied to stated that it was a couple of years ago. I thought maybe there’s some other apple product other than macs that have Nvidia in them. But seems like there isn’t.
throwaway2990 3y ago
The Nvidia fanboys are out to downvote not knowing it’s been almost 10 years since apple used Nvidia. Lol

Nvidia? Which apple product had Nvidia in it?

cpuguy83 3y ago

MacBook pros did for awhile until they leaked some detail about an upcoming product and Apple switched vendors.

windowsrookie 3y ago
I'm not sure where you heard this from? Back in 2007-2009 Nividia shipped defective GPUs to everyone, including Apple. Every MacBook Pro from that era was affected. Nvidia and Apple couldn't come to an agreement to who should pay for the bad GPUs. It cost Apple a lot of money and Nvidia din't seem to care. After that, Apple slowly started removing Nvidia GPUs from their products. AMD also shipped bad GPU's around ~2011 and Apple went back to Nvidia for a generation or two until AMD sorted their issues out. From Then on it was AMD GPUs only until the M1.
cpuguy83 3y ago
Can't reply to the child comment, but... I only found one article about this from back in 2008. It was definitely a thing back then, I just can't find it.... But indeed likely second fiddle to the gpu issues around the same time, I totally forgot about that.
- TheSpiceIsLife 3y ago
  The comment time stamp is clickable, you should see the reply button there.
  - alvarezbjm-hn 3y ago
    Thank you! I need the cheatsheet for this site.
    - ayewo 3y ago
      Cheatsheet you say? Here you go: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
  - sumedh 3y ago
    Oh wow, I have been on HN for many years, never knew this feature.

deecewan 3y ago

there was a point in time when you could run nvidia gpus in mac pros. there were first-party drivers for nvidia cards on macOS

Fuzzeh 3y ago

My Mid 2014, 15" Macbook Pro has both Intel and Nvidia. Chipset Model: Intel Iris Pro Chipset Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M This Macbook pro was a free upgrade from Apple after I'd had 3 mainboard replacements because they'd had faulty GPU's on my 2011 MBP ( see https://web.archive.org/web/20170119031155/https://people.cam.cornell.edu/~zc227/extras/early2011mbp_graphics.html https://web.archive.org/web/20170119031155/https://people.ca... for background) - Basically after I found out what was going on I took my 'repaired' machine home and stress tested it until it failed. After the very quick repeated failures Apple decided to replace my machine completely.

throwaway2990 3y ago
So more than “a couple of years ago” Cos been almost 10 years since apple ditched Nvidia.
- Fuzzeh 3y ago
  I have no idea when they last used nvidia. I'm just answering the question "Which apple product had Nvidia in it"
  - throwaway2990 3y ago
    I asked cos the person I replied to stated that it was a couple of years ago. I thought maybe there’s some other apple product other than macs that have Nvidia in them. But seems like there isn’t.

throwaway2990 3y ago

The Nvidia fanboys are out to downvote not knowing it’s been almost 10 years since apple used Nvidia. Lol