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Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by valuearb »

bitexploder wrote: post #47
MrScruff wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't speak for everyone, but for me there's a big difference from wanting to know everything about the computer and needing to, particularly when I'm not at work.

These days setting up a Windows or Apple system means fighting lots of relatively confusing dialogs and options to avoid using cloud services, etc. Modern consumer operating systems want to analyze every bit of your activity they can get their grubby mitts on and you really have to fight them and say "No thanks!" about 15 times on a modern phone and less, but still a lot, on Win/Apple. I care about privacy, like most…

Yea, you might be confusing Windows and Macintosh there (or iOS and Android). It's trivial to setup a Mac, there is one dialog to collect crash data you can opt out of, and you don't have to use iCloud. Apple would like you to use iCloud but doesn't make you, doesn't want your private data, and is committed to protecting that data.

Windows is a little more frustrating, and I don't think Microsoft has the same level of privacy commitment as Apple does, but I also don't think it's that far behind.

Google is a special case, they are an advertising company and have virtually no revenue streams outside of that for Android. I'm sure they'd like to protect your privacy too if they could still serve super targeted ads to you, but they have no way of doing that.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by alleycat »

Xeoncross wrote: post #42

One day I want the Adobe suite to run on linux (natively) then I can leave OS X just like Windows. Local Media editing is the last reason for windows/os x to exist. Everything else (games, calculations, social networks, model rendering) is better served by a web or mobile app backed by a server running linux.

What really needs to happen is a big name company with money (like Google), to go all out and get a decent linux distro on the market for professionals that everyone can get behind, and also subsidise the development of big name products from Adobe, drivers, game developers, in the short term get the OS to gain traction.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by [deleted] »

joshgel wrote: post #24
elmigranto wrote: post #15

I'm wondering whether it would be easier to run macOS in VM. No more fear of updates with snapshots, and I imagine ease of installation and less compatibility issues. Anyone does it, how's performance and keyboard "tunneling" (CMD vs CTRL)?

Ive found it pretty tough to get macOS up and running in a VM. Anyone know of any easy way?

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Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by 0x0 »

coldtea wrote: post #44
binaryapparatus wrote: post #34

This is both informative and interesting from other angle. If Dan Counsell, well known owner of Realmac Software, has to build hackintosh then wtf is Apple doing?

Catering to the majority (of its niche, which is non-Windows, easy to use, all-in-one, curated experience, upmarket PCs) and not to even further niches?

What happened to "Here's to the crazy ones" :(

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by kejaed »

joshgel wrote: post #24
elmigranto wrote: post #15

I'm wondering whether it would be easier to run macOS in VM. No more fear of updates with snapshots, and I imagine ease of installation and less compatibility issues. Anyone does it, how's performance and keyboard "tunneling" (CMD vs CTRL)?

Ive found it pretty tough to get macOS up and running in a VM. Anyone know of any easy way?

If you dont mind downloading a potentially sketchy random VM image from the web, this has worked for me:

https://techsviewer.com/install-macos-sierra-virtualbox-wind...

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by swah »

nottorp wrote: post #54

Problem is, Apple doesn't have anything for power users or developers right now. I'm currently hackintoshing, but with every "dumb it down" decision (like remove the battery life time estimation), hardware mishap (LG monitors not working near wifi, come on) or new hardware announcement that still doesn't serve my demographic i wonder if i shouldn't just switch back to Linux. I used to say that their laptops are fine,…

I'm on Linux now, and people that like design and attention to detail can't really be happy using this... I don't expect massive migration to Linux from OSX. People will go back to Windows and OSX in a few months.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by coldtea »

valuearb wrote: post #55
coldtea wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Catering to the majority (of its niche, which is non-Windows, easy to use, all-in-one, curated experience, upmarket PCs) and not to even further niches?

Macintosh is 6-7% of worldwide PC units. At an average sales price of $1200 a unit vs. average Windows PC at $500 a unit, Apple has at least 15% of world wide PC revenues. At 15-20% net margins vs. Windows PC makers average 2-3% margins, Apple's Mac profits are as much as, if not more, than all the Windows PC makers combined. Over $20B in annual revenues with at least $3B in net profits, that's a hellofa niche. So th…

Because they get to those numbers without a "decent pro model", so it's not like they feel they need one.

As for getting to even better numbers, well, they had decent pro models (and even servers) back in the day, and they (presumably) know that they don't sell that much.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by coned88 »

My concern with these hackintosh systems is safety. Tools like Unibeast/Clover and whatever else. They manipulate the OSX install image. It all seems to work but then you type in your credentials for the bank or work into a browser and who knows if the OS is compromised.

Is it safe? That is the question.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by aseipp »

atemerev wrote: post #52
21 wrote: post #30

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I think that's exaggerating it a bit. I managed to install Tensorflow with CUDA on Windows just by following theirs official installation guides. I also managed to compile Tensorflow with GPU support from source, also by just following the official guide. Sure, it's a bit more work than "sudo apt install".

It was 5 months ago; perhaps things happened to change since then. :)

I installed Tensorflow 1.0.1 for Windows for the first time like, 3 weeks ago. I've never installed it before on any system and I never even had Python3 on this machine. I had to use Windows because it has my new GTX 1080.

Short story: worked great, running in about 5 minutes. (With VSCode, I even get autocomplete out-of-the-box on the TF libraries, imports, etc.)

I think it was much different before 1.0. Also, building on Windows is a little more difficult. But just installing it really isn't. And Keras was far more annoying because it wants scipy, which wants BLAS, and I don't use Anaconda. I haven't gotten around to that one yet...

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by coldtea »

Drdrdrq wrote: post #57
coldtea wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Catering to the majority (of its niche, which is non-Windows, easy to use, all-in-one, curated experience, upmarket PCs) and not to even further niches?

Their niche will soon figure out there are some people (like OP) running the same software on much better hardware for much lower price. How much longer do you think they will keep buying original macs?

Decades?

Most people who buy Macs are not very price-sensitive, and they decidedly buy them so they don't have to personally build that "much better hardware".

So, this option does exist, but it's the exact opposite about what they want.

Assuming they even need the increased power in the first place, which most (except creatives pros in video and 3D) don't.

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