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Hello All,
Just joined up.
A friend told me about hackintosh many years ago. When I explored the idea then, it seemed that those systems were rather fragile, and that one had to be very careful about upgrading apps or OS, or interacting with Apple Store in any way allow them to make your system inoperable. So I dropped the idea.
Now...., for the past year I have been waiting patiently for Apple to upgrade their hardware. I do photo editing and a year ago bought an iMac I5 with 4k monitor (the best Best Buy had) to run a high-end photo editor. The iMac could not keep up. An unusable experience. I returned it within 10 days and !Basta!. Now, it seems that Apple has no interest in keeping the Mac Pro current with todays hardware improvements. Out of desperation I just converted my Linux box to Windows 10 to run that photo editor (as well as learning video editing). Ugh, not good. A chaotic interface. Looks like the midway to a county fair. So now I want to consider a hackintosh.
That this forum has so many participants makes me think that you have already satisfactorily answered the following question for yourselves. Nonetheless, here it goes:
Is a well-functioning hackintosh (one that is working fine now) going to be stable enough tomorrow so I can trust it to run mission-critical software (demanding software like video & photo editing)? Or is there a risk that some shennigan by Apple store, or an OS update (not necessarily even an OS upgrade to the next version) will sneakily make the hackintosh stop working? Can not Apple store detect that these systems are not proper Mac hardware? Why are their lock-out tactics of years back not working now?
What do you think, is it a good business model to rely on the hackintosh solution?
Thanks,
Bimmelbahn
Just joined up.
A friend told me about hackintosh many years ago. When I explored the idea then, it seemed that those systems were rather fragile, and that one had to be very careful about upgrading apps or OS, or interacting with Apple Store in any way allow them to make your system inoperable. So I dropped the idea.
Now...., for the past year I have been waiting patiently for Apple to upgrade their hardware. I do photo editing and a year ago bought an iMac I5 with 4k monitor (the best Best Buy had) to run a high-end photo editor. The iMac could not keep up. An unusable experience. I returned it within 10 days and !Basta!. Now, it seems that Apple has no interest in keeping the Mac Pro current with todays hardware improvements. Out of desperation I just converted my Linux box to Windows 10 to run that photo editor (as well as learning video editing). Ugh, not good. A chaotic interface. Looks like the midway to a county fair. So now I want to consider a hackintosh.
That this forum has so many participants makes me think that you have already satisfactorily answered the following question for yourselves. Nonetheless, here it goes:
Is a well-functioning hackintosh (one that is working fine now) going to be stable enough tomorrow so I can trust it to run mission-critical software (demanding software like video & photo editing)? Or is there a risk that some shennigan by Apple store, or an OS update (not necessarily even an OS upgrade to the next version) will sneakily make the hackintosh stop working? Can not Apple store detect that these systems are not proper Mac hardware? Why are their lock-out tactics of years back not working now?
What do you think, is it a good business model to rely on the hackintosh solution?
Thanks,
Bimmelbahn