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Originally Posted by vdbucks
Umm, hate to break it to you but I was there when Lion was released. There were a LOT of issues with upgrading older Macs. They likely eventually got ironed out I'm sure, but to say the issues weren't there is pretty ignorant.
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Ignorance would be implying that this particular Mac is anything but identical to the current one you'd buy in the store. You're talking out of your ass, trying to cover up for fucking up. You were wrong, it's ok -- we all make mistakes. But trying to backpedal and invent excuses for it is just silly. This Mac is identical to the newer macs, and if they run it, so do I. If you're implying that Mac OS X had some sort of install issue on the current generation of Macs, then that'd be a completely separate issue, and not one I really care about since it's not relevant to your mistake.
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Originally Posted by vdbucks
By the way... the kernel is software, not hardware. So no, Your 2009 Mac Pro does not have EFI64 "out of the box". The software that runs on it does.
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Since EFI64 has nothing to do with the kernel, it seems you're once again talking about something you don't understand. But it's ok: I'm used to it by now. The kernel mode preference for a Mac was 32-bit in client machines and 64-bit in server machines for the 2009 model. Mine is a 64-bit "out of the box" kernel. When I went to OS X Lion, it was 64 by default in the OS, so it stopped mattering. Sorry if that's too complex to wrap your brain around, but I really can't dumb it down any further.
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Originally Posted by vdbucks
Either way, you missed the point. The point was the simple fact that newer Mac hardware is not supported in older OS X software, not that older Mac hardware isn't supported in newer OS X software.
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It's you who is missing the point: my hardware isn't "older," it's current-gen equivalent. If you went to a Mac store right now to buy one, you'd get one that's just like the one I'm typing on. Implying it's "older" or "different" somehow doesn't even make sense.
No one brought up the "older" software but you, and you were wrong. It was a strange thing to say then, and making it seem like there was some weird incompatibility with the current-gen Mac Pro is not only incorrect, but a weird thing to say.
There was never an issue upgrading this Mac, and to imply there was or ever could have been is just incorrect, like much of what you've been saying.
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Originally Posted by vdbucks
For instance, the Intel Xeon 5620's that I run in my machine simply will not run on 10.5. Nor will 10.6 run on the 5620 or newer cpus to this day. The same thing applies to GPU's.
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You don't have a Mac, so what you have in your machine, and whether it's compatible with Mac OS X doesn't matter. Never have I had to modify anything on my machine to install an OS X upgrade, nor has anyone else with the generation of my machine.
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Originally Posted by vdbucks
Oh and for the sake of being thorough, at the time I was running an Inno3D GTS 250 512MB 256B with full QE/CI capabilities on 10.6 (not that that I expect you to really know what that is)...
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Implying that my technical knowledge is somehow inferior to the guy who is consistently wrong is also a weird thing to do .. but I understand why you'd do it.
Since you're just randomly making shit up now for the sake of trying to cover up how poorly you understand the space, don't be surprised if I don't reply. My apologies -- again, not trying to be a bad guy here, you're just completely talking out of your ass at this point.