What would October be without a spooky story? This month Josh & Matt weave a frightening tale of the history of Apple & nVidia. Thrill at the twists! Scream at the betrayals! Delight as Memory Protection's mascot Chip History makes a spooktastic return as we discuss Graphics Processing Boonits..... uh, Units.

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• Quake 3 For OS X Available
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• Apple Announces QuickTime 5, Releases Preview Version
• Official Napster Client For Mac OS, OS X
• Playstation 2 Hits The Market - Oct. 26th

Apple & NVIDIA

• July 2000: Apple scrubs all mention of ATI Radeon options for PowerMac G4 update after ATI screws the pooch
• NVIDIA enters the Mac GPU market in 2001 with the GEForce2 MX

Trouble nView September 2004: Nvidia can’t produce enough stable 6800s, causing a delay in Apple’s new 30” Cinema Display

Problem #1

From May 2007 - September Apple sold Macbook pros with some bad NVIDIA GPUs in them. Macbook Pro users started to experience video problems that were eventually linked to faulty NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT GPUs. Apple replaced the cards for free. - Apple: NVIDIA chips to blame for MacBook Pro video problems (Ars Technica) - MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues (Apple Support) - Investigation confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material - Feb 2009-Jan 2011: Intel sues Nvidia over chipsets being used in MacBook Pros (AppleInsider), throws Apple’s roadmap into murky water - July 2009: Apple shows Nvidia the door (AppleInsider) - 2013-2014: Nvidia pulls some shenanigans with mobile GPU patents (Quora), tries to get Apple to pay up. They say no.

Problem #2

Driver problems: For reasons unknown, Apple wouldn’t allow NVIDIA to create video drivers for MacOS Mojave 10.14. Mojave was released without updated drivers - apparently no NVIDIA drivers exist for Apple computers newer than 2018. - Nvidia Drivers For macOS Mojave: Timeline Of Events (Create Pro) - Nvidia on Its Lack of macOS Mojave Drivers for Newer Graphics Cards: 'It's Up to Apple to Approve Them' (Macrumors)

Problem #3

• In Sept. 2020 NVIDIA buys ARM (The Verge)

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