- Joined
- Feb 7, 2014
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- Motherboard
- GA-X58A-UD3R
- CPU
- Xeon X5650
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GTX770 (was GTX 660)
- Mac
My first computer that I built turned out to be a 2010 build without me knowing it. I have wondered before what it would be like to install Mac OS on a PC back when I built it, but I didn't have the resources or the patience to try and figure out how to make a bootable USB. I had used UNIX before but this was a big jump from dual booting on the same drive.
4 years pass and I decide I would try to install it because I had nothing to fear, especially since I ended up getting a separate drive for it. Everything seemed to work but I know I wouldn't necessarily depend on it. Since it was on a separate drive from my Windows drive, I didn't have much to worry about and things were working fine. Ever since then I've been slowly upgrading my first PC and made sure components would be supported in Mac OS.
I know it had some limitations with USB 3.0 and PCIe 2.0, so I eventually built a second Hac Pro build that had pretty decent specs similar to my first build. I spent a good amount on the second build, but not as much as my first since I knew by then what I needed initially and I swapped GPUs until I got something I was comfortable with. Having a computer that could run both Windows and Mac OS made a few things in my life interesting, and I wanted to try to work with art programs in Mac OS with the assistance of the iPad Pro through Astropad. So on both computers, I can play games and be productive. This experience has helped me grow and be more independent of solving most computer problems and have some fun figuring some things out too.
4 years pass and I decide I would try to install it because I had nothing to fear, especially since I ended up getting a separate drive for it. Everything seemed to work but I know I wouldn't necessarily depend on it. Since it was on a separate drive from my Windows drive, I didn't have much to worry about and things were working fine. Ever since then I've been slowly upgrading my first PC and made sure components would be supported in Mac OS.
I know it had some limitations with USB 3.0 and PCIe 2.0, so I eventually built a second Hac Pro build that had pretty decent specs similar to my first build. I spent a good amount on the second build, but not as much as my first since I knew by then what I needed initially and I swapped GPUs until I got something I was comfortable with. Having a computer that could run both Windows and Mac OS made a few things in my life interesting, and I wanted to try to work with art programs in Mac OS with the assistance of the iPad Pro through Astropad. So on both computers, I can play games and be productive. This experience has helped me grow and be more independent of solving most computer problems and have some fun figuring some things out too.