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Hi everyone
I wasn't sure where best to put this thread, but here seems OK? I'm having a dilemma and I'd like your guy's advice on it.
So I have been a mac user up until a few years ago when my MacBook started becoming a wreck, and have since been on my windows machine, however, since then, I've gotten way deeper into the iOS ecosytem, latest iOS devices etc, my windows is modified and skinned to look and behave as close to OSX as possible.
And with Mavericks coming out, I'm really itching to switch back to OSX full time, but here is my dillema:
My desk as it is now has everything very well placed, routed, tightly packed in etc, in other words, reconfiguring it for a different machine would be a huge/impossible pain, other than switching out my desktop with a mac mini or mac pro in its place. The mini is due a refresh, so that's out until that happens, and the mac pro is more than I need.
Another MacBook, the air or retina would be lovely, but it would be a waste as it'd be in clamshell mode 90% of the time, I much prefer using my iPad when away from the PC, so I have no real use for a laptop and would need to retrain my habits to get any use out of it.
Another reason is also not having to switch peripherals between machines for when I do need windows, that would have to be done by a KVM switch or some such with all the things I have that I'd want running on both systems, so as you can see, a hackintosh is ideal really, but I have some things holding me back.
I would like to re-use all my existing hardware, except the cpu/mobo, these are currently AMD so obviously need replacing, I'm hoping to reuse the ram (GSkill Ripjaws), the GPU (Sapphire 6870) and SSDs (Samsung 830 and OCZ Vertex 2), this would give me a really cheap OSX machine, and much faster than a mac mini or MacBook.
So if it's possible to only switch out the CPU/MOBO and have a fully functioning hackintosh, that'd be great, but then the next thing holding me back is whether there are going to be any niggles within OSX, such as iCloud services not working, or any sort of iOS integration, essentially if any of these features doesn't work, it's a pretty useless exercise so I need to be confident that bar hardware, it's going to run just like it would on a mac.
So that's my dilemma, what do you think?
Thanks
I wasn't sure where best to put this thread, but here seems OK? I'm having a dilemma and I'd like your guy's advice on it.
So I have been a mac user up until a few years ago when my MacBook started becoming a wreck, and have since been on my windows machine, however, since then, I've gotten way deeper into the iOS ecosytem, latest iOS devices etc, my windows is modified and skinned to look and behave as close to OSX as possible.
And with Mavericks coming out, I'm really itching to switch back to OSX full time, but here is my dillema:
My desk as it is now has everything very well placed, routed, tightly packed in etc, in other words, reconfiguring it for a different machine would be a huge/impossible pain, other than switching out my desktop with a mac mini or mac pro in its place. The mini is due a refresh, so that's out until that happens, and the mac pro is more than I need.
Another MacBook, the air or retina would be lovely, but it would be a waste as it'd be in clamshell mode 90% of the time, I much prefer using my iPad when away from the PC, so I have no real use for a laptop and would need to retrain my habits to get any use out of it.
Another reason is also not having to switch peripherals between machines for when I do need windows, that would have to be done by a KVM switch or some such with all the things I have that I'd want running on both systems, so as you can see, a hackintosh is ideal really, but I have some things holding me back.
I would like to re-use all my existing hardware, except the cpu/mobo, these are currently AMD so obviously need replacing, I'm hoping to reuse the ram (GSkill Ripjaws), the GPU (Sapphire 6870) and SSDs (Samsung 830 and OCZ Vertex 2), this would give me a really cheap OSX machine, and much faster than a mac mini or MacBook.
So if it's possible to only switch out the CPU/MOBO and have a fully functioning hackintosh, that'd be great, but then the next thing holding me back is whether there are going to be any niggles within OSX, such as iCloud services not working, or any sort of iOS integration, essentially if any of these features doesn't work, it's a pretty useless exercise so I need to be confident that bar hardware, it's going to run just like it would on a mac.
So that's my dilemma, what do you think?
Thanks