While I agree with you that years ago (>3) a Hackintosh wouldn't be a wise choice to go for a productive environment, a LOT has changed. But if you want to spend your time on other things, and want your computer to just work, I would definitely not recommend it. In general, if you're the kind of a person that enjoys tinkering and troubleshooting, and have plenty of free time, then go for it. Then if you get to a situation when you have to ask a question, you sit and pray for someone to answer, because if they don't you're stuck.Įventually, I bought an iMac, and couldn't be happier. Troubleshooting issues is a nightmare - there's no support, and you have to spend tons of time browsing through threads looking for someone with a similar problem. ![]() And there are some things that just never work as intended - like the sleep mode that I was never able to figure out. Things that you would expect to work out of the box with a normal Mac do anything but - there's effort required to make anything perform as expected. Updating the OS is a nightmare, resulting in me staying with 10.7 while everyone was on 10.9. However, it was a gigantic pain in the ass to maintain and I wouldn't recommend it. I spent ~ $800 on parts, and an equivalent (top of the line) Mac would've cost about $4K, so the money savings were great. I've used a Hackintosh as a main development machine for a few years.
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