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Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by petepete »

nirav72 wrote: post #38
givemeethekeys wrote: post #20

I'd give Windows some credit - it is actually quite good and stable these days.

No denying that windows these days isn’t stable. Indeed it is. My biggest issue is all the third party crap I never asked for gets installed with it. Not to mention all the Microsoft services that I don’t want to use, but still manage to be there. Like OneDrive. Sure one can uninstall it. But then see the mess it leaves with the way files are saved in the documents directory. Even when setting up a Windows 11 VM , I…

If you set your language to 'English (World)' during the install, none of the crapware is installed.

Or at least it wasn't last year when I installed W11 (I still occasionally need Affinity Photo and Capture One). Microsoft might have realised they're missing out on a few pennies and plugged the gap.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by riquisimo »

rpdillon wrote: post #169
bruce511 wrote: post #13

Back in my youth, when I was time rich and cash poor, this kind of tinkering was fun and a good way to improve the machine I was using. Now that I have more disposable cash, but waaay less time, I couldn't imagine "wasting my time" doing this sort of thing. These days I want to -use- the computer, not spend time trying to convince it to work. Incidentally it's the exact same journey with my cars. 35 years ago I was f…

People have been making this argument to me about Linux for more than 25 years. The most cutting version that I ran across was: > Linux is only free if your time is worthless! Something never quite sat right with me about this argument, and your comment finally made me understand what it is: the understanding you gain from tinkering is priceless, and it's exactly the experience that you use to help everyone around yo…

I really like the way you put that.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by roryokane »

MenhirMike wrote: post #70
WWLink wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the one 'creative' use case I know of where Macs actually are better - the lag and latency issues on Windows still seem pretty bad. I spent the last week shopping around for an audio interface and every single model had people complaining about driver issues and latency and "random loud static" or other crazy things when using Windows. Always Windows. Crazy stuff.

One of things that really annoys me about Windows is that there doesn't seem to be a way to capture audio from a single application even though the audio mixer can clearly change the volume. But if you want to capture, it's only the final mix output for everything (so you better hope that there's no sudden notification sound from anything). Or you'd have to use a virtual sound card like VB's Cable/Voicemeteer, which…

This page from 2023-07-12 says OBS can capture audio of individual windows in Windows 10 and up: https://obsproject.com/kb/application-audio-capture-guide

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by jen729w »

precommunicator wrote: post #363
jen729w wrote: post #325

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> Soldered drives are awful. If your motherboard dies you can kiss goodbye to your data. You have backups though, so who cares? Your motherboard died, you need a new computer anyway. Do a restore. And it’s not like external drives can’t fail; they’re just tiny computers. > It’s win/win/win, the only downside is that they’re inconvenient if you want to use the laptop on a non-flat surface (such as a lap) Hard disagree…

Nothing beats the convenience of unplugging a drive and plugging it to a next computer and it just works, within seconds you have everything ready for work.

Well, kinda! But not really.

I'm living this right now. I just switched laptops with my partner as she's doing a bunch of video editing. So she got my Pro and I'm using her Air. (I know, I'm an amazing boyfriend.)

So yeah, great, I have all my files. But none of my apps! And I'm not signed in to any of my websites. And even if the apps I use were on this laptop I'm not licensed for them. Oh and I have to get my password manager before I can do any of this. And configure my email.

Conservatively, it takes a couple of hours to restore minimal state. I know, I just did it!

In that time I could have connected an Ethernet cable and copied all of my data between the two internal SSDs. :-)

Edit: oh yeah, and I just command-strip-attached the SanDisk SSD to the back of this laptop's monitor. Because otherwise when I go and work somewhere else I'm trailing this umbilical around with me. This setup is absurd and I hate it!

Edit2: oh yeah again, now this external drive is constantly occupying fully 50% of my USB ports. Terrific.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by TylerE »

musicale wrote: post #326
TylerE wrote: post #273

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That would be a firing offense at my company. Company files stay on company hardware. Personal files stay on personal hardware, and never should the two meet.

That may be sensible if you want or need stronger security and isolation. However, many companies do support BYOD, especially on mobile where it's a pain to carry two phones around. There is some support for this. For example, Apple supports dual Apple IDs and separate encrypted volumes for personal and corporate data. Microsoft apps (Outlook) also have some support for separating personal and corporate data. The ben…

Mobile is a totally different story, to me. The security model allows them to be compartmentalized in the way a desktop never could be.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by musictubes »

joshspankit wrote: post #385
dmix wrote: post #383

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> For me it's always been about repairability and expandability and Apple has gotten worse in that respect over time. Apple Plus is amazing, I broke my macbook and they gave me a loner on the spot and I got it back in full working order later. I wouldn't buy any Apple product without it. Had a similar experience with an iPhone where they just gave me a new one straight up.

AppleCare+ has a hard cap and runs out at 3 years. No matter how great it is, that’s a very short amount of time.

Untrue. At least in the US you can either sign up for an annual plan that continues until you cancel it or you can extend the 3 year plan in annual increments.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by steve1977 »

dmix wrote: post #383
dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #221

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For me it's always been about repairability and expandability and Apple has gotten worse in that respect over time. It's essentially impossible to repair Apple hardware yourself, but Hackintosh is very easy to maintain in that regard. I have endless expansion options compared to Apple hardware. Hackintoshes are just a better choice.

> For me it's always been about repairability and expandability and Apple has gotten worse in that respect over time. Apple Plus is amazing, I broke my macbook and they gave me a loner on the spot and I got it back in full working order later. I wouldn't buy any Apple product without it. Had a similar experience with an iPhone where they just gave me a new one straight up.

> Apple Plus is amazing

It’s a pretty expensive service offering that you have to buy on top of a pretty expensive laptop.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by steve1977 »

golergka wrote: post #284
steve1977 wrote: post #255

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You can work professionally with audio in Windows, you’ll probably even get better performance out of the same hardware you’d be using for a Hackintosh.

You can, theoretically. In practice, a lot of tools like Logic and specific VSTs are macos-only, and CoreAudio actually "just works" out of the box without having to manually install and setup all kinds of alternative low-latency drivers.

> CoreAudio actually "just works" out of the box

If Apple is not messing up their USB subsystem like they did with Ventura, where people basically had to wait a whole major release until they got stable performance again with Sonoma.

Or if they don’t break iLok copy protection, like they just did with 14.4

And for professional hardware, you don’t have to install “all kinds of alternative drivers”. You just install the one official driver from the hardware vendor and that’s it.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by lostlogin »

bruce511 wrote: post #13

Back in my youth, when I was time rich and cash poor, this kind of tinkering was fun and a good way to improve the machine I was using. Now that I have more disposable cash, but waaay less time, I couldn't imagine "wasting my time" doing this sort of thing. These days I want to -use- the computer, not spend time trying to convince it to work. Incidentally it's the exact same journey with my cars. 35 years ago I was f…

> this kind of tinkering was fun and a good way to improve the machine I was using.

You know you’re alive when you log into iCloud from a hackintosh and then Apple notices, you get the ‘unauthorised hardware’ message (I can’t remember the exact phrasing) and your various iCloud services begin to cease functioning. It’s not often your OS is exciting.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by xcv123 »

ghoover1978 wrote: post #350
Aeolun wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At this point I feel like Linux may be more likely to just work than a windows machine. I just had the unfortunate experience of setting up windows 11, and the number of ‘please wait while we get things ready for you’ was truly astonishing.

I think that everyone knows that's a pretty ridiculous statement. Installing Windows 11 is basically putting in a USB stick, waiting about 8 minutes, clicking a few things and typing out your login and password. I love Linux, first started playing with it about 20 years ago now. There's not a single dist I've ever seen that is that simple. Just a basic fact, sorry.

> There's not a single dist I've ever seen that is that simple.

It is that simple with Ubuntu and similar distros. It has been that simple for many years.

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