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Arguably more petty. SJ has been dead for almost 15 year now, I imagine the C-suite might get over it at some point.
I can believe it. IIRC Jobs also snubbed ATI once after they leaked the GPUs going in the next PowerMac model.
Things have moved on since the days where GPUs in Macs were a priority.
But then the AI race has changed things. So who knows - maybe we will one day see official eGPU support from Apple and new drivers from nVidia. Wouldn't put on money on it though....
I don’t know about that. Apple supported some full size GPUs in past product lines and the number of users was very small. Granted, LLMs change that demand but the audience for Mac Pro buyers who would use a full-size GPU that is impossible to obtain is almost nothing compared to their laptop sales.
Part of the reason the new Mac Pro failed to find an audience can definitely be blamed on macOS' hostility to third party hardware. Who knows what Apple would be worth if they beat Nvidia's Grace CPU to the datacenter market. It was certainly their opportunity.
The only ones left were people like John Siracusa that still hoped to the very last minute, that Apple would change their mind.
Admittedly… what’s on my desk? A MacBook M4 Air, a Mac Studio, and there’s an x86 iMac in the corner.
What goes in the travel bag? A MacBook Pro or the Air.
Every time I look at buying something else the math doesn’t add up.
The 5090 sits in a commodity PC chassis. It’s not like I need a model running on my own computer.
It isn't only audio and video.
Maybe it doesn’t matter that much now because they’ve literally exited all the businesses where an external GPU is going to matter. But sticking with AMD all that time out of spite is just wild.