marf Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 yeah, I don't know but it functions better given the specs. I can have shitloads of tabs open. I can play a 50 gig 4k video off a usb drive. No hiccups. A pc would grind to a halt. We'll, mine did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted February 19, 2018 Author Share Posted February 19, 2018 I recently bought an se/30 circa 1989 for 100 usd. They cost 5,000 dollars at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 With a 7 year old ageing MacBook Pro finally reaching its limits despite maxing out the RAM (16 GB) and installing a 500 GB Samsung SSD, I'm considering building a Hackintosh instead of buying another Apple computer that hardware-wise is typically a generation or two behind in CPU and features. only ever heard bad things about hackintoshes. it seems you lose most of the stability and reliability you’d expect from a mac. i reckon if you really don’t want to buy another apple computer you’re better off just switching to a PC + windows 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 Yeah, considering that when you build a Hackintosh and run a modded copy of macOS on there, you're actually running an outdated copy, I wouldn't do it now. Apple have been dropping the ball with great aplomb recently with security exploits (really fucking stupid ones, too). In this day and age, I personally think it's way too risky to be running an out of date version of your OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 19, 2018 Share Posted February 19, 2018 yea something like 6months ago I was in that situation of thinking about hackintosh. Then I actually got one. I didn’t buy it, it’s a friend’s hackintosh build which he doesn’t need. It’s fully compatible parts according to tonymac. I found it to be an overall majorly mediocre experience. I’ve spent at least one full week configuring/tweaking stuff. Once it runs it’s a feeling of success, but most of the time this is very tiresome/tedious/frustrating work of searching forums and doing various mundane / arcane configuration tweaks until you feel it works and then it still has random kernel panics for some reason and you end up with a macOS Computer which is fast but sucks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t even feel I’ve learnt anything during that week. Just that it’s a waste of time. tbh, doing a full week of client work dedicated to get some $$$ to buy a new Mac would be time better spent, but their current laptops are apparently garbage so it’s a shit situation really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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