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    Question Hackintosh

    Anyone here built a Hackintosh? I stopped building PC’s years ago after I got fed up with windows, but I’m increasingly frustrated with Apple’$ slow pace of advance and limited hardware options. So I’m thinking of building my own mac.

    Part of the reason I switched to Mac was that they just work, and they switch on in seconds - my worry is building a Hackintosh would revert me back to windoze-level instability and unreliability again...

    Any personal experience here? Lots (too much) info out there on the inter webs, but would be good to hear from the locals

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    No experience with Hackintosh. SSD hard drives have make computers so much faster especially to boot. Our 2013 iMac was getting so slow it was bordering unusable. Replaced original HDD with an SSD and it is usable again.

    My view is both Apple & Windows computers seem to get slow with age. In reality it is newer computers are so much faster with more memory, faster drives and interfaces.

    Very interested to see how you go with the Hackintosh.

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    We have a 2012 iMac and a 2013 MacBook air, and they both still fly along very happily - if you didn't see them alongside my 2019 MacBook Pro, you'd be hard pressed to see much difference in day-to-day work.

    They both run off SSD's, and I've always bought as much RAM as was practical. MacOS doesn't seem to end up with endless junk code left over from previous installs/removals that the windoze machines do, so these relatively ancient machines still work flawlessly for most tasks.

    Then newer retina screens are a huge advance - they are amazing, and the main reason I started looking at upgrading the iMac - sadly now too old to drive a 5K display successfully.

    SWTSMBO does a lot of photography and is starting to dabble in video too, so that's another area where newer hardware will make a big difference.

    But in macworld, a worthwhile step up starts at well over $3000, and easily goes past $7000 for a pro. A Hackintosh should be a lot cheaper, but I'm concerned that I'll sacrifice that rock-solid reliability - the big reason I switched in the first place. Much of the online community seems to be of the over-volting overclocking how hard can I make it go sort - I really just want to put together a powerful, reliable and quiet machine.

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    I've actually seen a couple for sale on ebay where the guys have cobbled together a pretty good hackintosh and ironed out any bugs for a good price. There are lots of vids out there as you say and it depends how much time and effort you want to put into it yourself. Personally, I'd look at buying a secondhand conical Mac Pro and throw as much Ram at it and fastest SSD that I could afford. That'll be my next computer.
    2015 Apple Mac Pro 3.5ghz 6core 32gb ram 1TB ssd silver | eBay
    A mate of mine has a 2013 model that he has upped the Ram in plus SSD and a couple of big fat external drives and that thing flies. As per most Macs, it is rock solid.

    Stewie

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