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Having ran Hackintosh for 6 years as my primary development workstation, I have to disagree. All the points are true, and it's been very frustrating. However, t
by anon1253 9y ago
Having ran Hackintosh for 6 years as my primary development workstation, I have to disagree. All the points are true, and it's been very frustrating. However, to me OS X is the only really viable OS at the moment (Unix base that runs mainstream software well like Adobe and MS Office), and I'd rather run that on a machine that I know, can upgrade, repair and take apart if needed. And Hackingtosh is that, and if it runs, it runs smoothly. 6 years of 32GB memory, quad core Xeon, GTX 770, 34" ultra-wide, and plenty of native IO and storage ... try beating that at the price point of a Mac Pro or iMac. But maybe 2018 will be finally the year I drop OS X altogether and use Linux on a laptop and my workstation. OS X is slipping, and the hardware is not what I need from PCs anyway. Windows is still a no go, though.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago> runs mainstream software well I don't need commercial software so I never tested, but it was my impression that the commercial version of Wine (codeweavers) could handle most things?
- anon1253 9y agoHaven't tried in years, so it might be better now. But, last time I tried it was more of a hassle and frustrating than setting up Hackintosh. Trade-offs, I guess.
- jsjohnst 9y ago> but it was my impression that the commercial version of Wine (codeweavers) could handle most things? I recently tried it with a couple Windows only apps (after having not tried it in 4-5years) and sadly was still essentially unusable. Admittedly the apps I was trying were silver or bronze category, but still doesn’t change the fact it was one small step above unfunctional.