Posted by summarity 5 days ago
It feels like keeping it alive could really help long-term x64 support on Apple Silicon, even if Apple decides to move on.
I also think current Native Instruments luncher "Native Access" still requires rosetta for the installation :)))
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or just move back to windows, but I can't imagine it with the current state of AI bloat
‘We fully support the Studio.’
Edit: After hunting around without success, I’m now doubting my memory. I thought I could remember Jobs dismissively replying to a question about Adobe Flash that Apple supported flash (memory). Maybe I made that up?
I haven’t dabbled with hackintoshes in nearly a decade, I stepped away around the time iMessage started needing those extensive hacks to work. Things seemed to shift away from driver/bootloader gaps to faking Apple hardware. Years earlier, I had an Asus Eee PC (remember “netbooks”?) that ran macOS without any major issues. I even built a machine that I believed I could hackintosh easily, though it never quite worked as well as I hoped.
The era of random companies selling pre-built Hackintoshes was so cool. Kids these days probably wouldn’t even believe it if you told them, like how Netflix used to actually send you a DVD in the mail. :)
I never liked the idea, either get Apple, or get one of the other OSes.
It was like getting a Fiat Coupe with a Ferrari logo.
I do have sympathy for those that still use this in their daily work flow, but also... this is Apple. This is how they have always rolled.
You would hope that apple would open source it, but they are one of the worst companies in the world for open sourcing things. Shame on all their engineers.
Whereas a good graphics card alone is still insane money.