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I agree, in an educational institution or large corporation, no way. But in a small shop that lives and dies on productivity, where one can't (won't?) migrate a
by jackhack 8y ago
I agree, in an educational institution or large corporation, no way. But in a small shop that lives and dies on productivity, where one can't (won't?) migrate away from MacOS, a Hackintosh may be the only option available.
It's the market filling in the gaps of Apple's engineering & marketing plan.
- saagarjha 8y ago> in a small shop that lives and dies on productivity A computer that takes a bunch of fiddling to set up and might not work if updated doesn't seem like a productivity booster to me.
- walterbell 8y agoIT does the fiddling. Creators gain performance and productivity.
- saagarjha 8y agoYou're a small shop. Do you even have the funds for IT, or is it just one of the hats that your main system admin or reliability engineer puts on?
- walterbell 8y agoThat depends how much your creators' time is worth, i.e. the return on increased performance. If Hackintoshes have motivated Apple to release a new Mac Pro after a multi-year gap, then Apple-only shops will benefit from the Hackintosh investments of other shops.
- saagarjha 8y agoYes, that's my point. How much money are you saving? Maybe a couple thousand dollars? Balance this with the time you'd need to spend on setting this up and getting it to work right–a couple days, a week? It's not obvious that this would always work out, especially so if you don't have in-house IT and would either have to get a creator to learn how to do something like this or hire someone that does.
- walterbell 8y agoRight, so those people keep using Apple and wait N years for a new computer. Other people use a Hackintosh and help to define requirements for Apple's next computer. Apple gets free R&D. Those who need performance get it. Everyone eventualy gets the benefits in the next computer.