I have built six hackintoshes total: Mini Dell 9 (Snow Leopard, my first Mac ever) HP Probook (Lion) Desktop #1 (Mountain Lion) Desktop #2 (Mavericks) Desk

I have built six hackintoshes total: Mini Dell 9 (Snow Leopard, my first Mac ever) HP Probook (Lion) Desktop #1 (Mountain Lion) Desktop #2 (Mavericks) Desktop #3 (W7/Yosemite dualboot) Desktop #4 (W10/Sierra dualboot, my current build and probably the last new build I do for a while since you can now upgrade MacOS on a Hackintosh without doing a complete reinstall) The best thing you can do when you build one is to look for people who have had successful builds and get the same parts (namely motherboard, CPU, and GPU, with all 3 being equally important). Laptops that are deemed hackintosh-friendly by the community are a safe bet, since you can compare model numbers and get something that is going to be extremely similar parts-wise, if not identical, to what lots of other people are using. The most time I've ever had to spend on a build was the equivalent of a full workday. With my most recent build, I was never able to get sound working normally, but I did find a workaround with a $5 USB adapter from Amazon. My most recent build was also the first time I could actually afford to spend $3k+ on a real Mac desktop. Sadly, the options offered by Apple were laughably bad at the time that I built it. I could have spent $4000 and ended up with something worse than what I spent about $1200 on.