I should’ve qualified that by saying that the client had specific hardware needs that were not compatible with Apple’s proprietary configurations. That’s not to say that an Apple shop wouldn’t work, but we had to use Intel Xeon processors, nVidia GPUs and HP mainboards.
Even if we could’ve hacked the OS to work on the hardware, Apple wouldn’t have supported the OS configuration after the system was stood up, and in the enterprise world, that’s a big deal.
Bzzzzzt. Apple Mac Pros shipped with top of the line Intel Xeon processors, usually faster than ones available at release to Dell and HP, and nVidia GPUs. Pricing usually came in lower than equivalent Dell and HP workstations with similar specs. According to numerous PC pundits who tested them as pure Windows PCs, the main Apple logic boards could run Windows faster and more consistently than any other reference board. . . So it's illogical to conclude that your company's application could not run on them unless something was specifically added to the HP boards or BIOS to make them somehow different, I doubt there is any reason the Macs could not run it.