Mac or Win machine for Blender 2.8

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OpenGL, OpenCL…

Cycles OpenCL rendering on macOS is no longer supported

Does this mean that macOS users have to choose CPU in the preferences? And will any Cycles features work differently, apart from maybe lower rendering speed? In other words, what were the real advantages of OpenCL versus CPU rendering? I assume OpenCL made it possible to combine CPU + GPU power? Thanks.

macOS is deprecating openGL

Doomsday has been announced, guys. We knew this was coming ever since the introduction of Metal. What I’m wondering: how big of a task is porting openGL? Luckily Apple has everything very well documented. But still… would it take one dev a month? Would it take multiple devs years? I know resources are scarce and that it may not be worth it. I’m not asking anyone to do anything. I’m just trying to gather the information I need to maybe make something happen for the good of the mac community. (A…

I am not a Mac user, my knowledge about this is due to what I have read in the forum and the amount of Mac OS related issues in bug tracker.