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Is a $70 Hackintosh Any Good?

by mantesso on 5/20/17, 9:51 AM with 5 comments

• by orionblastar on 5/26/17, 10:13 PM

  https://kr5ddit.com/post/2070/is-a-70-hackintosh-any-good

  There is an advantage in that a PC clone as a Hackintosh will have expansion slots unlike the Mac Pro that got rid of them, so you can install a new graphics card to make it more of a MacOS gaming machine.

  Before Apple bought them out, Next used to sell NextOS that installed on Intel X86 PCs. Apple had to port Darwin to X86 systems before porting it to the PowerMacs with the MacOS API and GUI added to Darwin which is the Core of MacOSX.

• by aabajian on 5/20/17, 10:46 AM

  I think the takeaway (along with the lucky discount from the university), is that the consumer needs for CPU/GPU power has not increased that dramatically in the last five years. VR, 3D gaming, deep learning, 4K rendering, etc. are all edge-cases. The MacBook Pro 13" is likely designed without these uses in mind.

• by MichailP on 5/20/17, 10:34 AM

  70 USD, but thanks to large institution which massively ditches 5 years old computers (which costed 1k at the time) for 30USD.