2 x 12" G4 Power Books.
1 x G5 Mac Pro (now a Core 2 Quad Hackintosh).
1 x 2006 edition Mac Pro (was 2.66GHz quad but I replaced the CPUs and is now a 2.66GHz 8 Core. I also replaced the nVidia 7300 with an XFX 6850).
1 x iPod Classic.
2 x iPod Touch 3rd Gen.
1 x iPad 2nd Gen.
1 x iPhone 3G.
1 x iPhone 4.
And lastly my Intel i5 quad core 3.2 GHz Hackintosh which I made out of a faulty G5 which I bought on eBay.
All my towers are running Snow Leopard although I am beginning to feel a bit of preasure to upgrade to Mountain Lion. Shame really as I still think that 10.6.8 is the better OS. It is annoying when software is releassed requiring the new OS when I do not think it really needs it.
Am I an Apple Fanboy? I'd like to say 'no'. I think the future is in Linux, but I'm a 3D CGI Artist and when I was purchasing my software licences I got the choice of Windoze or Mac ( no brainier really ). Since then most of the software I use is now available native for Linux, but I'm not re-purchasing. Apple is a good platform but they, in my opinion, heavily over price the hardware and are overly controlling. They really do like to be their own little monopoly. I went in to an Apple Reseller two days ago to buy Starcraft2 only to discover that they have completely stopped selling any Apple software as this should now be done through the Apps Store. Apple is moving into a more manopolising position. The way they are moving at the moment is that eventually the only offline presence they will allow will be that you can buy an iPhone at a shop and then every other Apple product be it hardware or software you will purchase online directly from them. I worry that the new Mac Pro my have been designed with a little bit of thought to stopping people installing off-the-shelf GFX Cards, something they do not like. After the court ruling on that not going Apples way and third party PCI Express GFX Cards now being made for Macs I have to think it was a considered factor in the new design. Personally I do not like the new Mac Pro as I need to use more than one machine for rendering ( a large market for the Mac Pro ) and I see no way in which to stack this new machine.
All of what I have said gives in my opinion more necessity for web sites like this to exist. Not merely for the purpose of building a hackintosh, but also for helping those with existing Apple platforms upgrade them with non-Apple parts which may prove more cost effective. I first came to this website as I was looking to upgrade my GFX card in my Mac Pro and Apple were heavily limiting me as it is a 2006 model ( they also severely over price the cards available ) this left me with going with a Windoze GFX card as my only option. Now with the pressure to upgrade to Mountain Lion I am once more going to have to evoke a Hackintosh solution for my Mac Pro by installing a Hackintosh boot loader onto my real Mac. The 2006 model can run Mountain Lion fine with this solution, but Apple would rather force me to buy a new computer from them.
Long live Tonymacx86!
