Thanks BreBo, I'll go give that thread a good read through. I have to admit that after being a general user of OS X on genuine Apple hardware for 10 years now, I am having a hard time wrapping my brain around all this under-the-hood stuff to get my Hackintosh to work in a stable manner.
Warning, rant ahead.
So much time, money and energy into trying to get this hackintosh to "just work", I am beyond wondering if I made the right choice because I know now that this has turned into nothing more than a crapintosh. FCPX stops exporting to DVD after 1 hour of being powered on because "the output device could not be found". Really? Neither the Hard Drive nor the external DVD drive are not recognized by FCPX after an hour of use? I have to restart the hackintosh everytime to get FCPx to recognize any output device. And then again, even trying to restart this hackintosh is a hit-or-miss effort. Either it will hang at shutting down for 10+ minutes until I kill it manually, or it may restart gracefully in NO LESS than 1 minute. At least ONE WHOLE MINUTE to even get to the actual moment of shutdown before the system actually restarts. Really? WTF? So I spent over $1500.00 in parts and time just so my hackintosh could not export a FCPX project after 1 hour of use without having to painfully restart the whole computer? Ok. Yeah, I'm done. Time to go over to Windows and actually get some use out of my hardware. Honestly, I was BLOWN AWAY by the awesome editing/exporting/rendering speed of FCPX on this Hackintosh, coming from a relatively slow 2012 Mac Mini, but what is the point of it all if you can't export anything without the whole experience coming to a frustrating anti-climactic ending?
