Why You Should Build a Hackintosh
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Why You Should Build a Hackintosh
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#2Besides the pain of when there is a major os upgrade.. I love my mackintosh.
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#3 weekly hackintosh post, we've been expecting you!
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#4I'm still using the tower version of Mac Pro with High Sierra and it rocks. I upgraded RAM to 32 GB and the Xeon processors handle everything I throw at them. Opening it and changing drives is a pure pleasure. I really, really don't understand why Apple gave up on these towers and came up with something as inflexible as the current design.
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#5I maintained one for a couple of years. I had a troubling configuration to support (RAID 1 for system partition, no Windows). Every time I updated (minor macOS releases), it was a nail-biting experience, and sometimes it would take me hours to recover. The forums (tonymacx86) weren't much help, even though my hardware was supported (according to them). Overall, it was a frustrating and not that rewarding experience. Lightroom is actually faster on my 2013 Pro, even though the video card I used in the hackintosh was way more powerful, so I literally do not miss anything from those 2 years.
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#6I really don't get it.
The biggest appeal of Apple is their wonderful hardware. I dislike MacOS and it has been worse over the last years.
It seems to me that a Hackintosh is the worst of both worlds. If you spend that much time hacking around the hardware anyways, why not use Linux ?
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#7Couldn't help but notice the irony behind this post in your "Previous Posts" section: https://martinhering.me/post/0/everything-thats-wrong-with-h...
Also, I've always been curious what the process for upgrading to new OS versions on a Hackintosh is like. Is it expected that once you get the machine in a working state, you are better off not to touch it?
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#8I feel like the post didn't really give me any reasons why I should build a Hackintosh. Also, I wish they went more into their Hackintosh build and not what they want from a mac.
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#9I'm still using the tower version of Mac Pro with High Sierra and it rocks. I upgraded RAM to 32 GB and the Xeon processors handle everything I throw at them. Opening it and changing drives is a pure pleasure. I really, really don't understand why Apple gave up on these towers and came up with something as inflexible as the current design.
Would you mind sharing the model num of the Mac Pro your using?
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#10I really don't get it. The biggest appeal of Apple is their wonderful hardware. I dislike MacOS and it has been worse over the last years. It seems to me that a Hackintosh is the worst of both worlds. If you spend that much time hacking around the hardware anyways, why not use Linux ?
One reason would be to use non-Mac hardware and Windows or Linux as your primary OS, but still have access to macOS for the times that you need it, for example to do iOS development. I do some iOS development and primarily use a Dell XPS 13 with Linux on it, and have to switch computers any time I need to work on an iOS project.
And specifically about the Mac hardware - I agree MacBooks are the best available, especially the touchpads. But Linux doesn't really support my 2016 MacBook Pro, so I have to use the XPS to run Linux.