It's probably not going to be maverick but a later version that kills hackintosh - the apple only design of gpu pretty much flags that as a foregone conclusion - in a couple of years the only supported gpus will be the ones apple installs.
I'm more concerned about whether or not we can get a dual CPU Mac Pro 2013 or wether it really will be locked to a single chip.
Mike
On 4 Jul, 2013, at 9:29 AM, "Dom Q. Silverio" <domqsilverio@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes but if the OS X Maverick supports Mac Pro 2008 and newer, then Apple
> will need to provide drivers for previously approved cards. And
> after-market card from Nvidia where also released for the current Mac
> Pros, I assumed with Apple blessing since Nvidia released newer drivers
> independent from OS X updates (K5000, GTX 680, etc). And within these
> driver packages, other non official Apple cards where supported. This is
> why you can install pretty much any NVidia card and will get full GPU
> functionality.
>
> On 7/3/2013 9:28 PM, John Pale wrote:
> > Yes. They will support what was stock in older Mac Pros... But who keeps
> > the stock card in there ? No need to support AMDs or Nvidias latest and
> > greatest if none of your current computers have slots.
> > A kext hack will only get you so far. The Hackintosh world doesn't write
> > drivers from scratch.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, July 3, 2013, Dom Q. Silverio wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >>
> >>
> >> Not quite.
> >>
> >> OS X will still need to support previous Mac Pros, thus previous
> >> graphics cards. With kext hacking you can expand that beyond the
> >> standard approved Apple GPUs. Though, that often came with major caveats
> >> such as slower performance.
> >>
> >> On 7/3/2013 8:32 PM, Mikeparsons.tv wrote:
> >>> By having an unusual form factor with only one custom graphics config
> >> apple can supply a future version of osx with drivers for just that one
> >> card.
> >>> That lets them kill hackintosh in one step. Expect a custom card in the
> >> next iMac too.
> >>> Mike
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