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pratikjain134

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Hi,
I am a professional Editor working with media house currently, and I am planing to setup my own RIG at my house for Video & Audio editing purpose for professional output such as short films and television commercials. My requirement is using software like Final Cut Pro 7, Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects, Photoshop, Davinci Resolve and Avid Media Composer.

I am almost on the verge of picking Apple iMac 2017 27inch model which will cost me around $3120. In that I will be getting i5, 8GB RAM and the Radeon Pro 580 with 8GB VRAM. I am using original Apple iMac at work for 6 years now, and I love the productivity aspect of the environment over the Windows environment; I am really use it now.

Now coming to my real ISSUE. I am super confused as to should I be spending so much money and just buying the iMac from Apple or build a reliable hackintosh with that kind of money? I had built a hackintosh 6 years back on my windows machine and not everything was smooth but then I've heard and seen lot of videos recently where people have shown impeccable performance benchmarks and reliability with new builds. You guys are the best way to clear this block from my head and hence I decided to post it here. Fingers crossed.
 
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Hello,
yes, hackintoshes are a lot more stable nowadays because of the awesome job these guys on TonyMacx86 and other sites do. With what you want to spend on the new iMac you can build a monster machine. You can have an i7, 16GB, 32GB, or even 64GB memory RAM, a large SSD. There are a few things to consider though. You said you use both Final Cut and Adobe, now when it comes to these programs AMD cards are better for Final Cut and for Adobe the Nvidia cards are better. There are many forums here on the site discussing this. You can try putting together a build with parts you want then post here on this forum and ppl their opinions about the parts and state again what you will be using the b build for. Or you can look at the Buyer's Guide and pick a build out. Take a look at the CustoMac Pro in the Buyer's Guide. You can still customize some of the parts, like the GPU. If you want something stronger then go with a GTX 070 or 1080. You can go with 1TB SSD or if you can get an M.2 SSD. Hope this helps.
 
pratikjain134 said:
Hi,
I am a professional Editor working with media house currently, and I am planing to setup my own RIG at my house for Video & Audio editing purpose for professional output such as short films and television commercials. My requirement is using software like Final Cut Pro 7, Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects, Photoshop, Davinci Resolve and Avid Media Composer.

I am almost on the verge of picking Apple iMac 2017 27inch model which will cost me around $3120. In that I will be getting i5, 8GB RAM and the Radeon Pro 580 with 8GB VRAM. I am using original Apple iMac at work for 6 years now, and I love the productivity aspect of the environment over the Windows environment; I am really use it now.

Now coming to my real ISSUE. I am super confused as to should I be spending so much money and just buying the iMac from Apple or build a reliable hackintosh with that kind of money? I had built a hackintosh 6 years back on my windows machine and not everything was smooth but then I've heard and seen lot of videos recently where people have shown impeccable performance benchmarks and reliability with new builds. You guys are the best way to clear this block from my head and hence I decided to post it here. Fingers crossed.
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While it seems to be true that building and setting up a hackintosh is easier now, there is no guarantee that you won't encounter problems (such as installation issues) when setting up such a machine. Ask yourself : Will you be willing to spend the time to do the troubleshooting yourself (with help from these forums perhaps) in the event of problems?

If the answer is no, I would say it might be better for you to get a real Mac.
 
Jamesbond007 said:
While it seems to be true that building and setting up a hackintosh is easier now, there is no guarantee that you won't encounter problems (such as installation issues) when setting up such a machine. Ask yourself : Will you be willing to spend the time to do the troubleshooting yourself (with help from these forums perhaps) in the event of problems?

If the answer is no, I would say it might be better for you to get a real Mac.
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Ya that's also true. Good thing is I have friends who have a successful running hackintosh builds. So I'm sure they can help me run the OS.
 
There's no question that you will get more bang for your buck by building a hack spec-wise. As others have alluded to, it comes down to whether you are willing to spend a little time to get everything working well. In my opinion, the process of getting a hackintosh up and running has been refined to the point of almost being easy. But if you want everything to work perfectly, it still requires a tiny bit of research and tinkering, but not inhibitively so.

Speaking for myself, given a choice to have a fully decked out 2017 iMac or my current system, I'd choose my system. This is because I know that cooling won't be an issue in my system and I can easily update components. Even something as simple as trying to clean out dust that accumulates on the fans over time is complicated by the sealed iMacs.

I recommend taking a look at some of the Users Builds and Golden Builds to see how systems are running for others and to get a sense of what to expect.

As a professional video editor, I'd love to hear back from you if/when you've completed your build and give us your impressions and performance comparisons with a hack and an iMac.
 
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