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I work for a small non-profit and we're planning on buying a new Black Magic camera soon for our video productions.
Right now, our video editor is running an old Mac Pro, and this camera needs thunderbolt, so my boss had me research Hackintoshes that are thunderbolt capable and will do smooth editing.
I came up with a list (below,) based off the build guide, but he's worried that it won't be reliable enough and is probably just going to get a new 27" iMac after the next upgrade. I asked a friend with some experience with Hackintoshes and said to never use a hack for any business use, the amount of time fixing it will outweigh the time using it enough to make the up-front cost not worth it.
I'm a little biased, since I'd really like this project, but I'd like to know objectively if this is still the case or if they've become reliable enough to make it worth it?
(Another part of the problem is I won't be the one using it, just diagnosing it, so it means if the computer goes down, that means I'm spending my time fixing it and the vid editor is wasting is time waiting for it.)
Thanks!
My prospective build:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5-TH
CPU: i7-2700k
GPU: GTX 660ti
PSU: Corsair CMPSU 650 HX
RAM: 32G (4x8G) corsair vengeance 1600
Cooler master hyper 212 plus cpu fan.
Right now, our video editor is running an old Mac Pro, and this camera needs thunderbolt, so my boss had me research Hackintoshes that are thunderbolt capable and will do smooth editing.
I came up with a list (below,) based off the build guide, but he's worried that it won't be reliable enough and is probably just going to get a new 27" iMac after the next upgrade. I asked a friend with some experience with Hackintoshes and said to never use a hack for any business use, the amount of time fixing it will outweigh the time using it enough to make the up-front cost not worth it.
I'm a little biased, since I'd really like this project, but I'd like to know objectively if this is still the case or if they've become reliable enough to make it worth it?
(Another part of the problem is I won't be the one using it, just diagnosing it, so it means if the computer goes down, that means I'm spending my time fixing it and the vid editor is wasting is time waiting for it.)
Thanks!
My prospective build:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5-TH
CPU: i7-2700k
GPU: GTX 660ti
PSU: Corsair CMPSU 650 HX
RAM: 32G (4x8G) corsair vengeance 1600
Cooler master hyper 212 plus cpu fan.