> Nowadays (40ish) I wouldn't even build my own gaming PC anymore. I want to exchange money for something that works as I expect when I need it and have done wi

> Nowadays (40ish) I wouldn't even build my own gaming PC anymore. I want to exchange money for something that works as I expect when I need it and have done with it and at best swap a GPU or SSD sometime. I think I go in phases. In my twenties & early thirties I was very wrapped around the notion of efficiency and opportunity cost. I wouldn’t have dreamed of building a computer, or a shelf, or anything else. But a couple of years ago I decided to build a PC for gaming—not because it was cheap or easy, but because I thought it sounded like fun. I took advice from excited people much younger than me, and had a blast talking pros and cons of this stuff with randos (presumably teens and millennials) on the Internet. In the end I probably did save a little money, but the kick I got from doing something I hadn’t done since you needed to remember that the red side of a ribbon was pin 1, would have been worth it at a much higher price. So, Hackintosh? If you’re purely trying to have a functioning computer for a reasonable price? Probably not. However if part of what you’re looking for is a challenge, then I think it’s okay to just own that and know that you’re paying for an experience.