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I feel like most businesses at that level of need have long moved away from the MacPro, or they are out of business. For the rest of us mortals wanting a tower

I feel like most businesses at that level of need have long moved away from the MacPro, or they are out of business. For the rest of us mortals wanting a tower mac, the price of entry is too prohibitive. Base for my 2008 MacPro was in the ball park of $2900, and it was a beast. What is the base now, $6000? It's basically hackintosh from here on out, which works amazingly well now.

_ph_ 7y ago
Yes, I actually had planned to buy a new Mac Pro if it had been similar in price to your 2008 Mac Pro. I am currently using a 27 inch iMac and am looking for a desktop machine with a decent GPU and decent internal storage. So at 3k for a Mac Pro plus some money for upgrades, I could have grudgingly justified. At 6k it is just way too expensive.
theflyinghorse 7y ago
I've been using Mint (ubuntu derivative) for a few years now on my laptop and I'm absolutely loving it, more so when you consider the price difference. (am a software dev so linux is great for me)
- overcast 7y ago
  I use the same on my dev desktop(I use all three OSes).
dkonofalski 7y ago
Hackintoshes are great but I would never rely on one for any kind of production work if my business depended on it. I had a Hackintosh tower that went completely dead after something happened with device IDs. The machine was unusable. I had system updates disabled too so I'm not even sure what happened. Had to reinstall the OS and Clover (or whatever the loader was at the time).
- overcast 7y ago
  Like I said, businesses have moved on, the rest of us found alternatives.
- vonseel 7y ago
  I had an older (2013 or 14) Lenovo TS140 sitting around that I recently installed Mojave on. It took a little bit of experimentation to work out the kinks, but I've got it working almost flawlessly with a NVME drive in a PCIE adapter, 32GB RAM, and a Broadcom wifi card to enable Airdrop/continuity/handoff. Not bad for an older machine and less than $250 in extra parts, most of which I had already purchased over the years. I used these guides: https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-guide/ https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-... https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/wiki/faq#wiki_wifi_compatibility https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/wiki/faq#wiki_wifi_compa... The only thing I haven't been able to solve/fix is I can't use software that depends on WiBu Codemeter[1] - some sort of piracy prevention. This includes stuff like newer versions of Antares AutoTune, and other audio production software. WiBu installs a third-party kext, which doesn't play well with my audio interface for some reason (RME, also installs a third-party kext) - causes a lot of pops and clicks or dropouts until I uninstall WiBU. If anyone has any suggestions on workaround for this, please respond here! PS: after losing my system too many times in the past, now I keep a mirror image backup of all my systems in case I break something... Esp. with hackintosh it is just too easy to lose a system. [1]: https://www.wibu.com/us/products/codemeter.html https://www.wibu.com/us/products/codemeter.html

_ph_ 7y ago

Yes, I actually had planned to buy a new Mac Pro if it had been similar in price to your 2008 Mac Pro. I am currently using a 27 inch iMac and am looking for a desktop machine with a decent GPU and decent internal storage. So at 3k for a Mac Pro plus some money for upgrades, I could have grudgingly justified. At 6k it is just way too expensive.

theflyinghorse 7y ago

I've been using Mint (ubuntu derivative) for a few years now on my laptop and I'm absolutely loving it, more so when you consider the price difference. (am a software dev so linux is great for me)

overcast 7y ago
I use the same on my dev desktop(I use all three OSes).

dkonofalski 7y ago

Hackintoshes are great but I would never rely on one for any kind of production work if my business depended on it. I had a Hackintosh tower that went completely dead after something happened with device IDs. The machine was unusable. I had system updates disabled too so I'm not even sure what happened. Had to reinstall the OS and Clover (or whatever the loader was at the time).

overcast 7y ago
Like I said, businesses have moved on, the rest of us found alternatives.
vonseel 7y ago
I had an older (2013 or 14) Lenovo TS140 sitting around that I recently installed Mojave on. It took a little bit of experimentation to work out the kinks, but I've got it working almost flawlessly with a NVME drive in a PCIE adapter, 32GB RAM, and a Broadcom wifi card to enable Airdrop/continuity/handoff. Not bad for an older machine and less than $250 in extra parts, most of which I had already purchased over the years. I used these guides: https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-guide/ https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-... https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/wiki/faq#wiki_wifi_compatibility https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/wiki/faq#wiki_wifi_compa... The only thing I haven't been able to solve/fix is I can't use software that depends on WiBu Codemeter[1] - some sort of piracy prevention. This includes stuff like newer versions of Antares AutoTune, and other audio production software. WiBu installs a third-party kext, which doesn't play well with my audio interface for some reason (RME, also installs a third-party kext) - causes a lot of pops and clicks or dropouts until I uninstall WiBU. If anyone has any suggestions on workaround for this, please respond here! PS: after losing my system too many times in the past, now I keep a mirror image backup of all my systems in case I break something... Esp. with hackintosh it is just too easy to lose a system. [1]: https://www.wibu.com/us/products/codemeter.html https://www.wibu.com/us/products/codemeter.html