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While I agree with you that years ago (>3) a Hackintosh wouldn't be a wise choice to go for a productive environment, a LOT has changed. I am running mine since

by nik736 10y ago

While I agree with you that years ago (>3) a Hackintosh wouldn't be a wise choice to go for a productive environment, a LOT has changed. I am running mine since 2 years now and am on the newest Mac OS version, most of the time the App Store updates work flawlessly (even though it's not recommended), alternatively you could just go for a small SSD, put everything else on another SSD and/or HDD and you can reinstall the SSD with the newest version which shouldn't take longer than 15-30 minutes. I am not doing that, I am just saying it would be a choice. I completely reinstalled my Hackintosh only once in those 2 years and that was from Yosemite to El Cap. Sleep isn't a problem anymore if you buy the correct hardware, the question is also why you even would want to use sleep when it's booting within some seconds anyways... In the beginning, like with the first setup, it probably takes some hours, you should probably even calculate a day to set it up like you want it. But in the end I probably saved 2k EUR going the Hackintosh route and don't regret it at all. I don't even notice it's a Hackintosh anymore...

creshal 10y ago
> Sleep isn't a problem anymore if you buy the correct hardware, the question is also why you even would want to use sleep when it's booting within some seconds anyways... To keep your open programs?
- nik736 10y ago
  Well, isn't there an option to just do that also on reboot?
  - creshal 10y ago
    Sure, if you don't mind diligently saving all documents on shutdown, or your browser loading every single tab anew after starting, … Applications are stateful. Sleeping keeps all that state.
    - RotsiserMho 10y ago
      Have you ever used OS X? Application state can be preserved and restored across reboots. Most apps do this automatically. Actually I haven't encountered one that doesn't.
      - creshal 10y ago
        I do occasionally, I can't say I noticed it – but that's probably because I spend 99% of my time in a terminal.
        randallsquared 10y ago
        iTerm2 keeps state in this way for all my open tabs, except that it does a new login shell, so my history doesn't stay consistent: they all get the same history after a restart. Still, not having to open all the terminals I use for different things and resize and position them is a win. It's the small things. :)
        tedmiston 10y ago
        iTerm2 v3 beta doesn't keep tab state across relaunch for me. The tabs come back but on a fresh command prompt without stdout from the previous session. For me it's no better than starting fresh.
        randallsquared 10y ago
        I'm using 3.0.5. There's a preference "Use System Window Restoration Setting" which may be helpful.
        tedmiston 10y ago
        Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but this is my experience on 3.0.7 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282280.
trentmb 10y ago
Is there a way to get a legal copy if you don't have access to a mac? I've only been able to see a purchase option involving the mac app store.
tedmiston 10y ago
> Sleep isn't a problem anymore if you buy the correct hardware, the question is also why you even would want to use sleep when it's booting within some seconds anyways... It's a nice feature that isn't worth giving up for me personally. Even on my few years old rMBP a cold boot to the desktop takes 2 minutes vs 2 seconds from sleep.
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by nik736 10y ago

creshal 10y ago

> Sleep isn't a problem anymore if you buy the correct hardware, the question is also why you even would want to use sleep when it's booting within some seconds anyways... To keep your open programs?

nik736 10y ago
Well, isn't there an option to just do that also on reboot?
- creshal 10y ago
  Sure, if you don't mind diligently saving all documents on shutdown, or your browser loading every single tab anew after starting, … Applications are stateful. Sleeping keeps all that state.
  - RotsiserMho 10y ago
    Have you ever used OS X? Application state can be preserved and restored across reboots. Most apps do this automatically. Actually I haven't encountered one that doesn't.
    - creshal 10y ago
      I do occasionally, I can't say I noticed it – but that's probably because I spend 99% of my time in a terminal.
      - randallsquared 10y ago
        iTerm2 keeps state in this way for all my open tabs, except that it does a new login shell, so my history doesn't stay consistent: they all get the same history after a restart. Still, not having to open all the terminals I use for different things and resize and position them is a win. It's the small things. :)
        tedmiston 10y ago
        iTerm2 v3 beta doesn't keep tab state across relaunch for me. The tabs come back but on a fresh command prompt without stdout from the previous session. For me it's no better than starting fresh.
        randallsquared 10y ago
        I'm using 3.0.5. There's a preference "Use System Window Restoration Setting" which may be helpful.
        tedmiston 10y ago
        Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but this is my experience on 3.0.7 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282280 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282280.

trentmb 10y ago

Is there a way to get a legal copy if you don't have access to a mac? I've only been able to see a purchase option involving the mac app store.

tedmiston 10y ago

> Sleep isn't a problem anymore if you buy the correct hardware, the question is also why you even would want to use sleep when it's booting within some seconds anyways... It's a nice feature that isn't worth giving up for me personally. Even on my few years old rMBP a cold boot to the desktop takes 2 minutes vs 2 seconds from sleep.

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