Why pay $2,000 when you can pay $10,000

 

You don't have to upgrade your software, nor hardware now. Wynaut just use OSX 10.7 or W8.1 ?

 

I do 8.1.

 

Can you imagine what you could get with that kind of money in Windows world?

 

The same as you get in the OS X/macOS world when installing OS X macOS

Disagree ?
Why ?

I meant that if you buy PC hardware for 4000 $ and install OS X on it you get the same with both systems

 

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Have you tried windows before making the plunge ? I recently thought the same, installed Windows 10 and forced me to use it. Windows still feels like a broken OS.

Anything looks so crude, icons on desktop flash under some circumstances, taskbar icons disappear and rebuilt.

No easy customizable Icons of Folders,

Start Menu stops working for a new created local user etc ...

In fact , OS X works better on my PC than Windows 10

 

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That was not the question
So you use 2 main DAWs ? How do you manage things ? Why do you use 2 main DAWs ?

I also have a MBP 2008, and even Windows installed.

The main intention of this tread was to see how many use Hackintosh vs. Apple Mac's

 

I go with legit apple computers. I usually buy them second hand. At the moment I am running on a Retina 15' from early 2013, with quadcore i7, 8 gigs of ram and a GT 650M, 250 GB SSD. Thing was a fucking steal. Factory new and had never been taken out the box. 700 dollars.

 

I sometimes wonder why do so many people nowadays complain about cpu usage from plugins, then I realize that they probably use low end mac.

 

Post your geekbench scores. This is my hackintosh build...

 

Here is my hackintosh build, 64 Bit as well :

 

@thewizzard :
Thats strange:
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4770K
Why is the 4770k listed here to be more performant than the i7-6700K ?
idea?

 

Not sure. It's plenty of variables. Your motherboard could be bottle necking your processor. I don't think that's accurate anyway. The 4th generation shouldn't perform better than the 6th generation. That's kind of backwards but i could be wrong...

 

Upgraded from a mid 2012 i5 MacBook Air (production) and 2011 i5 custom PC (gaming) setup to a custom dual-boot Skylake i7 hackintosh this year.

I'd say that if money is no object and convenience and time are, it's a no-brainer to buy a Mac Pro or a 5K iMac. With that being said, I'm pretty happy with my watercooled i7 6700K running almost silent @ 4.4ghz, GTX 1080, 64gb DDR4, 512gb NVMe M.2, 1tb SSD.

It also depends on one's needs. For music production and gaming, it would be ludicrous for me to spend all that money on dual workstation AMD Fire Pros. Sure, I could have gone with more threads (I bought my setup just before the new X99 chips were announced) but tbh I typically run out of raw clock headroom more often than I suffer from a lack of being able to take advantage of multi-thread optimization.

There are a few snags with this setup, like my Pascal GPU still isn't supported so in the mean time I've had to add a $40 GT 710 (2gb with passive cooling! pretty neat actually) in what looks like the wonkiest SLI setup you've seen, in order to have graphics acceleration in Sierra. I also have several USB ports that only support USB 3.0 devices under Windows 10 but these issues have been very easy to work around.

Mad respect to the guy who's been upgrading that old Mac Pro on the cheap for 10 years. It's a pity they have largely phased out the ability to replace components. I think that will ultimately hurt Apple as people like me look for alternatives. I hate to consider it, but the logical conclusion of that strategy might be to phase out Hackintoshes altogether, but faced with the choice of spending 4x as much money on a less optimized system (just so I can use macOS) or returning to Windows 10 full-time, I would definitely go back to exclusively using Windows. I only started using OS X back in 2013 and although I much prefer it, I don't need it. Unfortunately I think there are a lot of people who do in fact need it, or who are afraid enough of losing their familiar environment; Apple is counting on that.

@huschiwuschi I'm not sure why CPU boss would show that. Those tests seem fairly scientific but the results look a bit off. That 4790k is identical to the 4770k but for the clock speed (which is only 200mhz higher than that of the 6700k) so I don't see why there would be such a huge difference between the two - and the 4770k outperforming the 6700k with lower specs seems odd too. On paper 6700k/4770k are both quad-cores with hyperthreading and 8mb cache, but the skylake is 14nm vs 22nm; 4.0 to 4.2ghz vs 3.5 to 3.9ghz and 8GT/s DMI3 bus speed vs 5GT/s DMI2. Still, there's not a huge difference between any of the chips in question. Synthetic testing can sometimes give strange results, it might be due to the skylake wattage optimization or something.

 

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I think the guy that's upgraded the old MacPro 1.1 to ElCap would be me. Old Betty still runs fabulously but a few months ago I purchased a new/ used MacPro. If anyone is interested in bringing back that old 1.1. Please feel free to reach out.