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snailer said:

Looks like I'm gonna have to upgrade my Mac Pro 5,1 graphics card. I'm running a Radeon HD 7950 3GB. Does anybody know what cards support Metal on my machine?

None. We’re stuck. Even if you happened to buy a third party GPU that supports Metal, you still can’t use it. You can’t install install Mojave with the card installed because the graphics drivers will be wiped upon update. To install new graphics drivers, you would have to use a different graphics card to see the UI, but none of the ones that DO work with Mojave can be used in a Mac Pro.

lkrupp said:

After the switch to iPhone comes the switch to a Mac, the switch to iTunes, Apple Music, etc.

Who’s going to switch to a Mac when they refuse to update them? I came to the thread and did a search for “Mac”; didn’t show up in the article at all, which confirmed my fears. We have no Mac switcher statistics anymore, because… well. Apple used to mention at keynotes that half their Mac sales in a quarter was switchers. They don’t really talk about the Mac anymore.

foggyhill said:
Put a god damn string of 3-4 imojis in your passcode and your set for a quasi eternal crack time for whoever gets your device.

I got excited when I read this and then found out you can’t do it.

k2kw said:
I imagine that there will be new MacBooks and MBPs soon with the keyboards fixed (talk about embarrassing if it isn't).

I was going to say that this admission by Apple probably pushes back the release of the next generation of MacBooks by a few months.

avon b7 said:

On first reading it looks like a tacit admission of a design problem but the user will have to live with it once out of warranty or pay for repair.

Sounds like the GeForce 8600M problem in earlier MacBook Pros, where they just swapped out an identical logic board with another GPU that had a 100% failure rate.