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- noneck3
I have a hackintosh now, and I'm about to replace it with an iMac. I'd advise against it unless you want your hackintosh to be a hobby. If you want something that'll just work, stay away.
- ernexbcn2
@noneck could you elaborate a bit on the issues you had and which hardware you picked?
I hear things are much better than a few years ago, I'm contemplating going the hackintosh way next year.
- Aye, I'd be interested to hear too - I've been idly considering a hackintosh build for my post-Windows7 machine, because fuck Windows 10.detritus
- mugwart2
I can chime in as I'm mid sorting out my build now.
Got mine in January and it 'just worked' (meaning it was to good to be true). Month in the Processor fan stopped working. Taking it apart and putting it back together - computer wouldn't build.Replaced mother board and hit so many problems with scan.co.uk (UK people stay away).
Finally replaced that - still nothing. Replaced processor and fan - still nothing.After a frustrating month plus I discover it is the mother board and they probably sent me the original dud one back. Fighting them this week to get a refund. Praying I can get this for the weekend but doubt it highly.
Moral of the story - its doable, its fun, its a lot cheaper, there's good learning to be had, just don't get parts from the internet.
Find a good trustworthy shop (plus one on human interaction)If you want to do it as a main machine - I'd phase it in with your current MAC and try ad keep that in a condition in case yours "breaks".
Can send over my spec if you want.
- I can recommend overclockers.co.uk for components - I've used them for years now. Had two HW probs (not their fault), both instantly replaced, no questions.detritus
- Same story, but without all the hardware issues.noneck
- Thanks for the recommendation detritus.
found a good guy whom works in a shop on Tottenham court road.
might stick to people but I'll check this out.mugwart - noneck - whats wrong with yours?mugwart
- @mugwart - nothing wrong. just a pain in the ass. I gave up trying to get iMessage work, or install El Capitan.noneck
- I had no problem with El Capitan. Never had issues with IMessage - though my wifi card wasn't working!!mugwart
- noneck1
I had a big long story typed up, and QBN logged me out when I submitted. Fuck.
Here's the tl;dr: It's cheap, you can get a fast machine for way less money than from Apple. But it kinda needs to be a hobby, because you'll always be fighting with it. You'll sit down one morning, and shit'll be fucked up, and you'll spend 6 hours trying to troubleshoot and fix it. Me? I'd rather do billable work for my clients, or play with my kids, or just about anything else than spend the day getting my computer to work properly.
- that was a bit of my experience.... sound was strange on my hackintosh, sometimes updates broke stuff....vaxorcist
- sounds shittymoldero
- mine's still running fine. still on snow leopard though.johnny_wobble
- scarabin1
this site is a great resource in general
http://lifehacker.com/the-always…and here's a list of pre-vetted builds.
http://www.tonymacx86.com/buildi…it's not super hard and you can save a ton of money. just take the time to read about your chosen process, choose your parts from the lists above and you're good. oh, and expect random shit to add a day or two to your build.
- same links I went from. really helpful. add two days if your luck! expect weeks if not so...mugwart
- ernexbcn0
How are your builds doing? it seems inevitable I'll end up building one.
- Why's that? Anything to do with Win10?detritus
- I will dual boot but I'd like to keep working on OS X, Windows for games.ernexbcn
- Ah, ok - makes sense. For some reason I had you in mind as a PC user for work too.detritus
- Mine has a few strange habits I'm ironing out but it works really well and I'm really happy with it.mugwart
- err0
I dual boot but honestly I've been in windows 10 for the last few months. Mainly because at this point my home desktop might as well be a chromebook.
- section_0140
I have more problems with my actual Mac than I do with my Hackintosh.
- 09 mac pro here and often times I pine for the days of hackintoshing. Ur screwed if you try to update the OS without making sure the GPU drivers are in order.dorkKn1ght
- noneck1
I just retired my Hackintosh to the basement as an overpowered home server running Windows. I'm working on my MacBook Air attached to an external monitor. The MacBook is slow, but I'm holding off getting an iMac until the new ones come out (in the fall?).
I've given up on Hackintoshes: too much work.
- johnny_wobble0
Never had much problem with mine. It's still on snow leopard though.
It's not currently being used, but just because the cheap case fans crapped out and the cpu fan is making a horrible noise.
Also the hard drive is maxed out and I haven't gotten around to adding another one and fixing the fans.
As far as hardware / software compatibility, I've never had much problem.
- Did you ever run update with in the same version of OS?pango
- don't think so, but the machine is/was just for the wife's email / web / itunes basically.johnny_wobble
- ernexbcn0
Thanks!
- raf0
Weren't people always having trouble updating hackintoshes to recent OSX builds?
You could consider a different approach: getting a 5K iMac, costing only a bit more than a 5K Dell display, and adding an external graphic processor of your choice via Thunderbolt.
- you can do that?monospaced
- please elaborate.pango
- *elaboratesraf
- raf1
https://www.techinferno.com/inde…
It will get easier and more available once Thunderbolt 3 hits the market and there is official support for eGPU.
- Omg omg! Thx! This might just be what I need.pango
- it looks promising but it looks like early days hackintosh drama as well...ernexbcn
- Yes, but with Thunderbolt 3 it will be straightforward, kosher and even hot-swappable.raf
- Still, when you look at it, iMac is priced like a 27" 5K monitor with an almost free computer thrown in for good measure.raf
- yeah well I guess if you need the 5K 27 inch monitor then it is a good dealernexbcn
- but those iMacs are over 21 hundred €, from what I've seen I can build an even more powerful thing for half thaternexbcn
- without the 5K 27 inch display of courseernexbcn
- Those 27" displays are high gamut too.evilpeacock
- a display like the one in the iMac is gonna run you 1300 € + by itselfmonospaced
- also, those iMacs run about $1500 €, not 2100 €monospaced
- nope, 27 inch 5k are over 21 hundred euros here, see my post belowernexbcn
- pango1
Do you guys think it's worth it if i get a
13"Air, 128G SSD, 2.2 Ghz i7, 8GB RAM, $1,149.
And have a E-GPU $400?I like how it's really compact with just the air for carrying around. and when i'm home. I can just plug the E-GPU in and have enough processing power to render photos and videos.
- I don't know nor have anything to contribute to your post,
just wanted to say, Hello!GeorgesII - Apparently there are issues with Adobe apps: https://www.techinfe…raf
- ugggghhhh need more research....
Hi Georges!pango
- I don't know nor have anything to contribute to your post,
- ernexbcn1
@monospaced I was talking about the 27 inch 5k
I can live without a 27 inch display and 5k resolution, that was my argument, but if you are after a display like that then I guess it's a good deal.
But if you don't need that you can spend about half that and build quite a more powerful thing.
- I need more Almacena!!!********
- They start at just under 2K in the Spanish Refurb store, but yeah, I get what you mean.raf
- that's weird.. they're only $1500 US dollars in the USmonospaced
- omg, I was looking at the wrong one... my bad, you're right :)monospaced
- I need more Almacena!!!
