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> There is really no good alternative to a 5K LG dispay at the moment. Oh please. I have been using 1920×1080 displays for a while and there's nothing wrong wi
by etatoby 9y ago
> There is really no good alternative to a 5K LG dispay at the moment.
Oh please. I have been using 1920×1080 displays for a while and there's nothing wrong with them. To claim that 4k is not good enough and you absolutely need 5k, that's just ludicrous.
I agree with the conclusion that a Hackintosh misses the entire point of a Macintosh, but for different reasons.
I'm not an Apple fanboy. I have owned 3 MacBooks in the past, but lately I have switched over to Lenovo laptops running various flavors of Linux.
That being said, Apple's hardware is undeniably well engineered and aesthetically pleasing, to a degree IMHO unrivaled in the industry.
It features a deep integration of hardware and software, meaning that they are developed by the "team next door," that allows Macs to excel in areas considered "difficult" in other OSs, such as battery usage and fast and reliable standby/wakeup. This level of integration between hardware and software is again unrivaled, except in the smartphone and tablet industry, which closely followed Apple's lead with the iPhone and iPad.
Finally, Apple's software has traditionally been very user-friendly, intuitive and bug-free (IMHO this was true 10 years ago, less so now.)
This is what people are paying for when they buy a Macintosh and it's something a Hackintosh misses completely (except for the last point, I guess.) Not the 5k display.
- JupiterMoon 9y agoThe author is doing video editing work. The point of the 5k screen is to have a 4k video displayed at 1:1 pixel and controls displayed alongside it. I.e. the author may be part of that small subset of people that actually want 5k in order to do their job.
- angry_octet 9y agoSince I use a beautiful 5K Dell display every day, I also thought it was a bit overblown. Maybe it doesn't work with his AMD setup, but it is definitely supported on nVidia. It is a bit complicated by 5K requiring DisplayPort MultiStream. I would still be buying Mac Pro computers regularly except that they haven't released a proper one for 7 years.