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Hackintoshes from my experience are usually built as a low cost hobbyist alternative. Most people earning a living from a Mac will sacrifice speed to have stabi
by gogopuppygogo 6y ago
Hackintoshes from my experience are usually built as a low cost hobbyist alternative. Most people earning a living from a Mac will sacrifice speed to have stability and support.
Plenty of people who want MacOS but cannot afford the official Mac will use it instead.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoI need to build my software for macOS. On my Ryzen Threadripper running Linux, I can run a faster, more powerful KVM/QEMU version of Mojave than I can buy from Apple, while still having cores and RAM left for Linux. I could afford to buy hardware from Apple, but why would I when the cost/performance ratio for an embarrasingly parallel compute task like compiling is so much worse?
- george_perez 6y agoLike the previous person said, mainly stability and support. There's no doubt that macOS can run much faster in non-Apple hardware given certain parameters, but if you want support and solid stability you would probably go with Mac hardware.
- skykooler 6y agoI remember seeing a build on the tonymacx86 forums where someone built a Hackintosh with 64 cores (dual Xeons, I believe) and 128 GB of RAM - back in 2010. What you'd do with such a beast, I don't know, but that's well above and beyond any hardware Apple has ever sold.