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Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by Razengan »

nottorp wrote: post #136
Razengan wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You don't know any developers working on compiled software. I do. I expect your next response will impose qualifiers on "developers" and "compiled software." :) > my OP - are from people who need a powerful desktop for work. Your OP said: > Problem is, Apple doesn't have anything for power users or developers right now. > I used to say that their laptops are fine My experience is that their laptops are still more t…

> I do. I expect your next response will impose qualifiers on "developers" and "compiled software." > I used to say that their laptops are fine > My experience is that their laptops are still more than fine enough for power users and developers. Well, [part 1] I don't use xcode, i touch type [part 2] and a lot of the stuff i work on involves looong builds and/or going through a few VMs. I also HATE fan noise and I wo…

> i touch type ... Part 1 disqualifies the emoji keyboard

Why do you keep saying this? The Touch Bar replaces the FN keys, not the keyboard.

There are no emojis on the Touch Bar unless you specifically bring them up. You can modify the Touch Bar to only present you with the controls you need. [1]

> I also HATE fan noise and I work from home in a quiet room. ... disqualifies anything with laptop-like internals

The 2016 MBPs are some of the quietest laptops around [2]. Which computer do you use? Is it a desktop without any fans?

[1] https://www.boastr.net/bettertouchtool-touch-bar-customizati...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/5ffhe4/2016_mbp...

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by mmrr88 »

I have a Toshiba Satellite Radius 11 L15W-... its a cheap 300 dollar laptop runs windows 10. changing the OS is not supported and actually blocked my the manufacturer. I was able to find a few tools to remove some of the counter measures set in place. It is now a Ubuntu Laptop, I would use a Mac for development but Macs are expensive. I have built 2 PC gaming rigs that were more expensive then the 1500 price tag of a hackintosh. Bottom line is you can get any modern OS working on almost any machine. It just starts to get really hacky and information can be hard to find.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by lisper »

Nexxxeh wrote: post #140
lisper wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that Macs don't "just work" any more. At best they "just work" until the day that Apple decides to deprecate a feature or an application that you have come to rely on (for me it's iPhoto) and then it stops working. It doesn't crash, it just says, "Sorry, this application cannot run on this version of MacOS." But from the user's point of view the effect is the same. [UPDATE] Case in point: one of the banking ap…

I think Macs "just working" has always been a myth. Ask anyone who gets paid to fix Macs. Sure, I see less of them, but hardly unexpected considering people buy fewer of them (and they're less targetted by malware). On the other hand, I hate dealing with them because they can suffer from the same "it should work but doesn't" crap that Windows machines do but without the critical mass of support via Google. And unless…

> I think Macs "just working" has always been a myth.

To a certain extent that is certainly true. But there was a time during the Snow Leopard era when Macs were extraordinarily reliable compared to the then-contemporary competition, and even compared to anything before or since. Things have gone downhill since then because Apple decided to de-emphasize reliability in favor of other things like thinness, and the merging of desktop and mobile environments.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by paulcole »

CPLX wrote: post #49
jrnichols wrote: post #2

I'm in the same boat this author is. It's disappointing to see the desktop market lagging so far behind. For all of the 68k/PPC years, we could at least say "different architecture" and Intel hadn't caught up. Now we're all Intel, and it's Apple that isn't keeping up. It's frustrating, and I'm not necessarily a "Pro user" anymore at all. I have a current generation Mac Mini, and it's over 2 years old now. What I can…

> I wish I know what Apple was thinking. It's literally incomprehensible. Just make a really good fast desktop computer. They're one of the largest companies in the world now with essentially unlimited financial resources, and decades of core competency in making high end desktop computers. So like why don't they just fucking do it.

>It's literally incomprehensible. Just make a really good fast desktop computer.

For the sake of argument, why? It's probably one of their worst selling products. Nobody defends the remaining iPod enthusiasts when they demand a new giant capacity iPod.

Maybe we just need to accept that Apple doesn't want to be in the desktop computer business for much longer?

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

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?

Hasn't Tim Cook essentially confirmed that they will be refreshing the line soon? I guess, not to Mr. Counsell's satisfaction?

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/02/28/apple-ceo-tim-cook-pro-...

I get all of the arguments on how long it's been, though.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by xaduha »

prodmerc wrote: post #22
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)?

MacOSX performance inside a VM is terrible, no matter your hardware.

Nonsense, depends on the VM.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by karlshea »

alleycat wrote: post #62
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.

But knowing how Google works they will lose interest in it in three years and then that OS would be in the same position as macOS.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by chx »

ak217 wrote: post #82

Just to provide a counterpoint, I recently did a new desktop build and installed Windows 10. It's not bad, and very different from the Windows 10 beta that I gave up on in frustration two years ago. With the Ubuntu subsystem I can do useful work right away. After turning off some of the annoyances (via the Services and Group Policy control panels), it really does a decent job of just working. You can download and ins…

Is there really a difference you can feel (not measure) between NVMe and SATA SSDs? I am just wondering.

I myself don't dare to go Windows because of malware. Linux is where it is.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by LeoPanthera »

ak217 wrote: post #82

Just to provide a counterpoint, I recently did a new desktop build and installed Windows 10. It's not bad, and very different from the Windows 10 beta that I gave up on in frustration two years ago. With the Ubuntu subsystem I can do useful work right away. After turning off some of the annoyances (via the Services and Group Policy control panels), it really does a decent job of just working. You can download and ins…

If you're relying on the Ubuntu subsystem to do "real work", why not just install Ubuntu?
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