Apple–Intel architecture

It worked, but it was still...

It was one of those Intel Macs, the Intel PCs, or sorry, Intel Macs, Intel chips.

So it was good enough for when I had purchased it, but...

When Apple started making their own chips, that's when the MacBooks became really good.

However...

Intel Macs, that we hopefully don't have many of left in our environments, could also run Windows.

So after a long time of requesting dual boot machines and getting denied, no, all the software you need can run on Windows.

You will get this lovely... ish other computer to use.

Oh, they are the best in the business.

They are explicitly anchoring this new M6 performance against the old Intel Macs and the M1 chips from back in 2020, just to make that 13x speed multiplier look, you know, staggering.

Right.

But let's be real.

Yeah.

Macs can do it with universal.

Yeah.

Universal control.

Little did I know it was a good computer for the first step of Apple's life.

But yeah, so there's nothing wrong.

What I'm saying, there's nothing wrong with the old Intel Macs, iMacs.

No, they work, but they just don't work with AI.

Welcome to the podcast, Chris.

It's great to have you here, and we're gonna be talking about Macs.

This as becoming sort of somewhat of a theme in the, the podcast here.

I guess, uh, it's always interesting to me to see or talk about where you see the world of Mac security.

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It's, it's like the golden age of macOS malware.

Uh, yeah, so over the years, um, I started getting more comfortable with Macs.

Oh, man, I think it's been like six years now.

Basically, he made his own Nvidia driver for macOS.

So i- i- in case you don't know, then, uh, there haven't, haven't been, uh, like, uh, Nvidia chips in, uh, Mac i- in Macs in forever.

S- what was the last one? The, if you don't know, then the 2011 MacBook Pro, uh, what was it? Like, a chip gate, GPU gate? Radeon gate? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Radeon gate? With dedicated ...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Anyways, so they got rid of N- Nvidia, and that was the last, basically the last time they worked together.

And, uh, this hack works only on Intel Macs.

So Intel Macs have been, uh, from 2017, basically.

And, uh, this week it updated some related tech specs f- pages to reflect these changes.

Given the Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard still work on Intel Macs, it's unclear why, why the accessory is now being considered not compatible, uh, to Intel and only M- and only in Apple silicon Macs, um, only.

So, uh, still isn't clear why Apple...

Th- this was, this was, uh, MacRumors, they, they discovered this and of course no comment of that from Apple.

Go ahead

... just real quick.

It, it also means that now Apple's not on the hook for an Intel Mac user who go- co- goes in and buys a new Magic Trackpad or Magic Mouse, because to your point, Jeff, you know, something may have changed that is not obvious to, to anybody but the Intel Macs.

And-

Yeah

... is Intel Macs need not apply.

If you have an Intel Mac-

Yeah

... you ain't gonna get Golden Gate.

So, uh-

Sayonara to Intel Macs it is.

Yeah, yeah, which is a, a bit of a shame, but you can go back to as old as a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro, and, uh, pretty much if it's Apple silicon you can run Golden Gate.