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No NVIDIA, so no CUDA. (Of course, one can buy a card, but that was already possible with USB-C and an eGPU enclosure.)

Is there a particular reason they stopped shipping Macs with NVIDIA?

Apple has been pushing Metal for some time now, and I think the reasoning is that Apple historically likes maintaining a tight coupling between proprietary hardware and their software. CUDA has been around a long time, but Metal does provide a lot in terms of general purpose GPU work, performance shaders for machine learning applications, etc.

I've been working in a field that specifically requires CUDA for a few years now. I miss OSX with an Nvidia GPU so much. I'm just baffled by the dropping of support for the drivers. I would totally buy this computer... but as is I'm stuck using a System 76.

Apple dropped support for Nvidia CUDA card drivers? Do you mean Apple working on this support directly, instead of just Nvidia?

I dunno, but the PCI slots will make it much easier to add your own

Problem is there's no Mac drivers for the latest Nvidia GPUs. Bit of a problem that.

I am hoping that now that there's a Mac with proper PCIe slots it might make more business sense for nVidia to make drivers for macOS. Previously, there were Thunderbolt eGPUs which could allow using nVidia GPUs with (non-Hackintoshed) macOS but it may not have brought in enough sales to justify the cost of developing.

Didn't realize that.

But are their drivers?

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