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> People keep buying the product! Not all of us. I was saving up for a high-end MBP but the 2018s came out with essentially the same design and little public
by runjake 8y ago
> People keep buying the product!
Not all of us.
I was saving up for a high-end MBP but the 2018s came out with essentially the same design and little public acknowledgement of the keyboard flaw, so I ended up building a rather beefy hackintosh with that money, instead.
I miss the portability, but gained power, thermal headroom, the ability to upgrade/replace individual parts, and a ton of expansion. It is glorious. And I paid a fraction of what I would have paid Apple.
- didgeoridoo 8y agoCare to share your build? Thinking that this will be my direction soon as well...
- runjake 8y agoI make it a personal policy to never recommend a hackintosh to someone, as it does require some work (albeit, it was less work to install macOS than Windows 10 [but both were relatively pain-free installs]). That said, I cover my build here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19433038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19433038
- taude 8y agoHow is it less work to install macOS than Windows 10? I personally ran a Hackintosh for two years, bought all the right parts according to Tony Mac, and after getting tired of fiddling each time with the upgrade cycle of the OS, I just went full in with Windows 10, and it was dead simple to install and setup, and it's been stable, simple, and reliable.
- williamstein 8y agoI switched to Chromebooks from OS X almost entirely because of Apple's keyboard fail.
- pier25 8y agoI switched to an iMac 5K instead of buying a new MBP. I've had too many hackintosh headaches in the past decade.