- Joined
- Oct 17, 2013
- Messages
- 351
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z390 Designare
- CPU
- i9-9900K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
zipb, No Im not telling that my hackintosh is slower than a macbook 2017 in anyway. this is my 7th, 8th build hack since 2013. My 2 hacks now with designares are very powerful and fast for almost anything. In benchmarks the scores are similar and better than a 2019 macpro which costs 6k. All these years I have done many many tests to check my hacks against real macs with similar specs. So Im not complaining at all in regards of overall performance. What Im trying to say is... for example in fcpx while skimming between clips there is a lag when cursor touches the 1st clip. Often skimmer is not showing at timeline while im editing and i have to go to media pool to skim a clip and then come back again to timeline. Very very minor issues that I didn't notice in macbook pro. But! when you edit hours and hour per day, these little minor issues drop the overall experience. As I said on previews post render times and exports are much faster on my hack. The point I want to mention here is that its not always the numbers that benchmarks provide against real macs but also the overall experience someone has. It's not rocket science for someone to understand that with bootloaders and while using tools to emulate they system to behave as a real mac that will show up some disadvantages. That's why while I was doing a research about opencore and the benefits it provides against clover, I wanted to ask if this is a better method that getting us closer to a real mac. I don't regret ofc a moment about my hackintosh systems all these years at all.Really? My MacBook Pro quad core i7 is much slower than my Hack. Not even in the same league. With everything, except cold booting.
On my Hack, FCPX flies, LR and Photoshop are nice and fast too, Logic Pro X runs better(in the sense of more VI's) than on a real iMac i9(I've compared these side by side).
I mean, how would the software know it is not running on a real Mac? And then it would decide to run slower by using a non-optimised library?
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