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Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by NegativeLatency »

gfiorav wrote: post #14

Best mac I ever had is my Hackintosh. I built a fusion drive for it and use Clover instead of Chimera for a boot loader, so I can update from major versions without trouble. I've never had any issues, i just shop for compatible chipsets. I've had tons of issues with Linux on the desktop in comparison to Hackintosh. Never understood how people say it's time consuming to do it!

It's time consuming, depending on the particular hardware you have. The updates usually go smoothly, but then a sound driver or something will break and you have to go and fix it. Which is pretty annoying if you want to spend your time getting something else done with your computer.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by prodmerc »

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.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by joshgel »

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?

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by atemerev »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #9

As a Hackintosh user, I'd recommend an NCASE M1 v5 or the Shuttle SZ170R8 for a significantly better chassis. With the NCASE, you can get a LGA 2011-v3 mini-ITX board and get as fast of a computer as you want. Though truthfully, I don't think there's much of a point. Likewise, an old NVIDIA card for a Hackintosh? Also not much of a point. The web drivers are so bad. Who knows when Apple will ship another NVIDIA chip…

What also gets me mad is "oh, so you need CUDA? You are a very niche user then, and ought to suffer!" It's when everybody and his dog are into ML, and having a decent GPU is a must unless you want to pay Amazon $2.5 per hour to train your models...

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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jwr wrote: post #5

I used to use a Hackintosh. It was a time-consuming thing, I feared OS updates, and I could never be sure about the reliability (you can get really weird problems sometimes. I then switched over to a Mac Pro (cheese grater) and was very happy with it. Unfortunately, since the trash can Mac Pro I'm left out in the cold, so I'm considering running a Hackintosh again... Unfortunately, the information is still very fragm…

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Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by nateberkopec »

jwr wrote: post #5

I used to use a Hackintosh. It was a time-consuming thing, I feared OS updates, and I could never be sure about the reliability (you can get really weird problems sometimes. I then switched over to a Mac Pro (cheese grater) and was very happy with it. Unfortunately, since the trash can Mac Pro I'm left out in the cold, so I'm considering running a Hackintosh again... Unfortunately, the information is still very fragm…

Yeah. I buy Macs because they "just work", so a Hackintosh completely destroys the point of even owning a Mac for me.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by itg »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #9

As a Hackintosh user, I'd recommend an NCASE M1 v5 or the Shuttle SZ170R8 for a significantly better chassis. With the NCASE, you can get a LGA 2011-v3 mini-ITX board and get as fast of a computer as you want. Though truthfully, I don't think there's much of a point. Likewise, an old NVIDIA card for a Hackintosh? Also not much of a point. The web drivers are so bad. Who knows when Apple will ship another NVIDIA chip…

a GTX 980 Ti is considered old now? Unless you're working with datasets where the 6GB is limiting, it is quite capable for both CUDA programming & gaming. I tried CUDA programming on Win10 and it is an exercise in frustration, and find macOS a more pleasant environment compared to linux in part b/c of software library and it's what I'm personally used to.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by 21 »

atemerev wrote: post #20
doctorpangloss wrote: post #9

As a Hackintosh user, I'd recommend an NCASE M1 v5 or the Shuttle SZ170R8 for a significantly better chassis. With the NCASE, you can get a LGA 2011-v3 mini-ITX board and get as fast of a computer as you want. Though truthfully, I don't think there's much of a point. Likewise, an old NVIDIA card for a Hackintosh? Also not much of a point. The web drivers are so bad. Who knows when Apple will ship another NVIDIA chip…

CUDA stuff is awful on Windows (try setting up Tensorflow/Keras there — nothing but overwhelming frustration). So I have to use Ubuntu and miss my happy days with macOS.

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".

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