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Hi,

To start my story off, I have a partner who is going to study Art & Design at university this year September. We walked into the open day and saw a whole row of IMAC's and was wondering yeah, this might be a great thing to maybe invest in for her university studies.

We walk into Apple and see quite a few Mac Air, & Mac Pro and was shown then IMAC's. We instantly fell in love with the machine. £2179.00 Machine, which would enable her to do her studies, and I could use the machine for Gaming, I only primarily play World of Warcraft which has a Mac edition. She would have to spend £169 on Art & Design software, £49 for extended warranty for students, and we would be given a discount of 12% for being a student, with a total of £2108.48 to pay.

Specs on the IMAC: 27 inch monitor, 3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB, 1TB Fusion Drive, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5.

Seeing as I was going to spend £2k on a machine, I had to do a little research on them and found out that due to not having a tower/desktop, that the IMAC over heats. Overheating would burn out the internal parts and then over time I would have spent £2k on a machine which would end up being useless in a few years.

That's when I discovered Hackintosh, and a few Youtube video later, I found this website.

So I was wondering, if maybe someone could help me out in terms of what specs I could build with a Hackintosh and if I would be able to dual boot Windows and Mac OS on the machine. My budget would be £2100ish and I am looking for something to last me for the next 5-6 years. She would be using it for MAC OS software, that we would buy and I would be using it for Windows for my university studies too, as well as playing games at high/ultra settings from time to time. It would be nice to have a set up that I could develop and upgrade from time to time in the future too.

Also was wondering, if it would be best to buy the parts now and make them now or wait till September incase new parts come out or something?

Thanks very much guys.
Bengali Noob :thumbup:
 
Hi,

To start my story off, I have a partner who is going to study Art & Design at university this year September. We walked into the open day and saw a whole row of IMAC's and was wondering yeah, this might be a great thing to maybe invest in for her university studies.

We walk into Apple and see quite a few Mac Air, & Mac Pro and was shown then IMAC's. We instantly fell in love with the machine. £2179.00 Machine, which would enable her to do her studies, and I could use the machine for Gaming, I only primarily play World of Warcraft which has a Mac edition. She would have to spend £169 on Art & Design software, £49 for extended warranty for students, and we would be given a discount of 12% for being a student, with a total of £2108.48 to pay.

Specs on the IMAC: 27 inch monitor, 3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz, 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB, 1TB Fusion Drive, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5.

Seeing as I was going to spend £2k on a machine, I had to do a little research on them and found out that due to not having a tower/desktop, that the IMAC over heats. Overheating would burn out the internal parts and then over time I would have spent £2k on a machine which would end up being useless in a few years.

That's when I discovered Hackintosh, and a few Youtube video later, I found this website.

So I was wondering, if maybe someone could help me out in terms of what specs I could build with a Hackintosh and if I would be able to dual boot Windows and Mac OS on the machine. My budget would be £2100ish and I am looking for something to last me for the next 5-6 years. She would be using it for MAC OS software, that we would buy and I would be using it for Windows for my university studies too, as well as playing games at high/ultra settings from time to time. It would be nice to have a set up that I could develop and upgrade from time to time in the future too.

Also was wondering, if it would be best to buy the parts now and make them now or wait till September incase new parts come out or something?

Thanks very much guys.
Bengali Noob :thumbup:

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£939.70 - total cost without GFX card - use HD4000 CPU gfx
Less than half the cost of an iMac and a lot more power. 1 SSD for you and one for her + 1 HDD for your files and 1 HDD for hers


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£1267.67 - total cost with WiFI and GTX670
 
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