- Joined
- Aug 11, 2013
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
- CPU
- i7-3770K
- Graphics
- HD4000 (EVGA GXT 970 available)
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
After reviewing the replies to my other thread(s), it's become painfully obvious that it's basically no longer worth trying to Hackintosh my existing hardware for what I actually want it to do. So then I thought about maybe doing a Mac Mini Clone, but perhaps that's too limiting. Before I go too far into that concept though, I thought I'd ask about the actual Macs first.
If I were to build the ideal Mac Clone (clone of an Intel Mac with the absolute latest specs), then what would that look like in a hardware breakdown (chipsets, CPU/GPU, etc)? I'm seeing that things like Broadcom networking and AMD graphics appear to be the big hitters. The goal would be for this thing to run Monterey/Ventura (probably won't last beyond that as I'm betting Intel support will drop sooner than we expect) so that I can use Parallels for basic toying around. I can't do this with an M1 because you can only run Big Sur and newer (because of the platform change) in Parallels and even that requires Monterey installed.
If I were to build the ideal Mac Clone (clone of an Intel Mac with the absolute latest specs), then what would that look like in a hardware breakdown (chipsets, CPU/GPU, etc)? I'm seeing that things like Broadcom networking and AMD graphics appear to be the big hitters. The goal would be for this thing to run Monterey/Ventura (probably won't last beyond that as I'm betting Intel support will drop sooner than we expect) so that I can use Parallels for basic toying around. I can't do this with an M1 because you can only run Big Sur and newer (because of the platform change) in Parallels and even that requires Monterey installed.