- Joined
- Sep 16, 2012
- Messages
- 182
- Motherboard
- Asus Z390M-Pro TUF Gaming
- CPU
- i5-9400
- Graphics
- RX 5600 xt
I'm done with Hackintoshing, ever since Apple announced the M1 Macs. It's a platform that's slowly dying. It may not be apparent today, but it's moving in that direction, and It's a direction I don't intend to move in. Whether that's 6 months or 2 years from now. I currently have a custom built PC dual-booting between Linux Mint & Win10.
Before I got into Hackintoshing, I would always upgrade to the latest Power Mac & Mac Pro whenever they came out with new models, but those days are long gone. I can't justify the Apple Tax when I can build my own PC that's mostly just as fast & more upgradable & affordable than what Apple sells, not to mention the lousy availability of games for the Mac platform. I've always been a hardware-1st type of guy, and OS/software second.
I actually like the new M1 SOC/CPU (ARM in general) but in order for me to consider an M1 Mac in the future, Apple would need to provide the following:
- $ No higher than $1500 (approx.) with 16GB RAM 500GB NVME
- Small footprint
- Minimum 1 16x PCIe X16 4.0 slot
- 2 minimum RAM slots upgradable
- 2 M.2 slots
Don't think I'm asking for too much, am I?
Before I got into Hackintoshing, I would always upgrade to the latest Power Mac & Mac Pro whenever they came out with new models, but those days are long gone. I can't justify the Apple Tax when I can build my own PC that's mostly just as fast & more upgradable & affordable than what Apple sells, not to mention the lousy availability of games for the Mac platform. I've always been a hardware-1st type of guy, and OS/software second.
I actually like the new M1 SOC/CPU (ARM in general) but in order for me to consider an M1 Mac in the future, Apple would need to provide the following:
- $ No higher than $1500 (approx.) with 16GB RAM 500GB NVME
- Small footprint
- Minimum 1 16x PCIe X16 4.0 slot
- 2 minimum RAM slots upgradable
- 2 M.2 slots
Don't think I'm asking for too much, am I?