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Perhaps Nvidia are writing drivers that don't conform to the guidelines Apple provide for approval? Maybe they're trying to pull a Logitech and include lots of data gathering that Apple object to. Or they're ignoring things like events from power management. Or their drivers are just shitty Mojave citizens. Or they're trying to force a Mojave equivalent of GeForce Experience to be installed with their drivers.

If Nvidia are being dicks in the face of reasonable requests, why would that be Apple's fault?

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> If Nvidia are being dicks in the face of reasonable requests, why would that be Apple's fault?

Because Apple sold the hardware /with/ the software, and now they completely broke that (<5 year old) hardware?

Point of clarification, the article does not mention and I have no reason to suspect that Apple broke hardware they themselves sold. In fact the article does seem to point out there is support for specific Nvidia cards that Apple sold or approved. Also I find it rather impossible to believe that Nvidia couldn't release something that would restore this ability. Would a user need to disable some security feature temporarily to be able to install it? Maybe, but that's the price you pay for unsupported hardware.

Apple got burned hard [0] by Nvidia and swore off them back around 2009. And Linux Torvald also called them out back in 2013ish IIRC. Nvidia is not a "good" company. Now people have be running things unsupported and now Apple closes that hole and they are all up in arms?

[0] https://gizmodo.com/5061605/apple-confirms-failing-nvidia-gr...

> I have no reason to suspect that Apple broke hardware they themselves sold

In fact my own 15" MBP late 2013 has a GFX750, which is no longer supported according to Apple Support [1].

The worst for me is that this didn't withold Apple from pushing the update, so running Mojave with an external monitor is hardly possible now.

> Nvidia is not a "good" company.

Agreed. Neither is Apple.

[1] - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208898

> In fact my own 15" MBP late 2013 has a GFX750, which is no longer supported according to Apple Support [1]

That support article doesn't mention the GFX 750 and I can't find any record of Apple selling a MBP with a GFX 750...

Edit:

I believe what you meant to say is you have a "NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and automatic graphics switching" [0] which it appears does not support metal.

[0] https://support.apple.com/kb/sp690?locale=en_US

Metal's supported on that card. Works on a GT650M too, from a 2012 rMBP.

You're correct about the card, sorry about that. Got confused I suppose. Indeed I meant to say I have the GT 750.

I should have added this in my edit but I'll put it here:

I stand corrected. I DO think it's wrong for Apple to drop support for something they shipped, especially since it's just over 4 years old. I thought this issue was limited to people who had Mac Pro's or Hackintosh's and put an unsupported card in it. I'll admit I've only used 13" MBP's for the last 10+ years until my most recent MBP and so dedicated graphic cards wasn't in my wheelhouse. I honestly thought they stopped ALL Nvidia cards back in 2009ish.

As a sibling comment pointed out, it seems it does appear to be supported? I have the same machine:

  Chipset Model:	NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
  Type:	GPU
  Bus:	PCIe
  PCIe Lane Width:	x8
  VRAM (Dynamic, Max):	2048 MB
  Vendor:	NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Device ID:	0x0fe9
  Revision ID:	0x00a2
  ROM Revision:	3776
  Automatic Graphics Switching:	Supported
  gMux Version:	4.0.8 [3.2.8]
  Metal:	Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily1 v4

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