- Joined
- Apr 20, 2017
- Messages
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- Motherboard
- Asus ROG Strix Z270G Gaming
- CPU
- i7 7700K
- Graphics
- HD 630
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Mostly, right now for me it's about price of a new Mac (of any flavour), secondly, it was about Apple's not offering configurations I wanted. I've just finished a mid-career "get me out of this corporate hell to which I'm shackled by pursuing a totally unrelated new university degree" crisis so money isn't flush and since I'm going back to software programming, I need a good/fast setup at home. Sadly, the Mac mini is too stale right now for the money and the Mac Pro is simply out of financial reach, so hackintosh it is!
My first machine (20+ years ago) I built myself (Windoze, but boy did it scream at the time) and enjoyed that process immensely, plus it provided function for many years (even after I gifted it to my brother and upgraded my own). At the time I had bought a book on how to build an Apple machine, but the value and savings weren't really there at the time to justify or warrant the expense. Today, however, it is a different world for the hackintosh, thankfully.
Just built my first hackintosh this week (macOS Server/HTPC/home hub...), 3x faster than currently selling (or 2012) Mac mini, but in a Prodigy case into which I stuffed all my external/media drives and replaced my old, slow NAS. That experience went much better than expected.
Now on to the desktop where parts are ordered and in transit, which together will form my new, very fast (hackintosh) developer's dream machine.
My first machine (20+ years ago) I built myself (Windoze, but boy did it scream at the time) and enjoyed that process immensely, plus it provided function for many years (even after I gifted it to my brother and upgraded my own). At the time I had bought a book on how to build an Apple machine, but the value and savings weren't really there at the time to justify or warrant the expense. Today, however, it is a different world for the hackintosh, thankfully.
Just built my first hackintosh this week (macOS Server/HTPC/home hub...), 3x faster than currently selling (or 2012) Mac mini, but in a Prodigy case into which I stuffed all my external/media drives and replaced my old, slow NAS. That experience went much better than expected.
Now on to the desktop where parts are ordered and in transit, which together will form my new, very fast (hackintosh) developer's dream machine.