Hackintosh build/discussion

With this price you might as well have bought a real mac and enjoy way better stability.
Not saying Hackintoshs are useless, just saying spending nearly 3k in a computer for "music production" and gaming doesn't sound that great to me

>>56352255
Not OP, but macs limit you in terms of gaming. He said he wanted to do gaming and macs are limiting in that regard.

A Hackintosh seems like a good compromise.

>>56352073
Have you checked that the wifi card is hackintosh compatible?

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>>56352255
This is what you get for $3200, a fraction of the storage, a fraction of the GPU performance and you miss out on being able to open up your hardware and replace it with whatever you want. Not to mention you miss out on that kickass 21:9 monitor.

>>56352306
Wasn't concerned about it since I don't know his network setup. I think he's going to wire it

>>56352073
>Sound Card: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Zx 24-bit 192 KHz Sound Card ($119.99 @ Newegg)

Have you asked him what he actually needs? If he's a professional music producer I doubt he needs a bloody soundblaster card.

Then again if he was a professional producer he'd be smart enough to keep his work and gayming machine separate.

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>>56352349
What's the benefit of having two systems with identical specs besides the graphic card?

If you partition your data and remain organised, what does it matter?

>>56352255
haha your fucking dumb if you honestly believe what you just said

>>56352393
Why would they have identical specs? If you're using logic pro x for work you'll get a genuine mac. While I run a hackintosh myself for fun I would never rely on it a professional capacity and in over a decade of work I've not encountered anyone else who would.

Also why would you want to sit at your work station in your studio in your free time? Not separating the work and leisure environments is a fast track to an unhappy life. I presume if this guy is scoring movies he's in a dedicated studio removed from his living environment? Or are you saying he does this in his living room or bedroom?

>>56352073
>Skylake
>Hackintosh

It will be a lot of pain.

I had this for a while.

I do like the system in many aspects, however I don't want to keep dual booting for shit. I also had to stop using my sound card because it wasn't supported there and had to use onboard which isn't bad, but still.

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>>56352466
Are you one of those people that believes that the i5/i7s that Apple uses are "SPECIAL OS X EDITIONS" or something?

He does it freelance (as most producers outside of a label/studio do). Have you ever owned a rig that's really nice? I wouldn't mind sitting at my workstation if it were geared for both aspects of my computing life (but since I'm a 3D modeler for a publisher, we're using the Quadro cards).

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>>56352769
That's why you buy for Hackintosh rather than just randomly installing it on your system.

Next time you should get a 1TB SSD, 500GB partition between your two operating systems.

>>56352637
Literally everyone on YouTube using a Skylake Hackintosh says it's completely stable. Just download a custom boot image and you're ready to go.

>>56352783
No I'm one of those people who believes that apple's roadmap involves as much homogenisation as possible. How good is GTX 1080 support in MacOS going to be, for example? Does your motherboard have integrated graphics? Is your friend going to want to work with massive film files (on multiple monitors if he's scoring video) on those integrated graphics? Is he going to need thunderbolt for something like a UAD-2?

I'm freelance too I have been for many years, as are most people in the music industry, as are many many creative professionals. Good for you that you don't mind sitting at your work desk but I don't want to spend my evening in a studio when I've spent the last 12 hours there. That's obviously personal preference.

that machine is defibitely not sound design/msp oriented. what kind of "production" is your friend going to do?
gonna monitor the thread

>>56352073
Nvidia 10xx cards don't have drivers yet

>>56354315
They will by the time it actually gets built.

>>56352073
I wouldn't suggest hackintosh for someone who hasn't built the system and installed OS X themselves.

I use it for my sole income source (freelance webdev) and I'm very happy with it, but I know how it works and how to fix it if it breaks. It's 99.9% stable, but when that 0.1% happens, you're fucked if you don't know what you're doing.

If you go ahead anyways, at least get a Gigabyte mobo.

>>56354570
He's doing it himself. I'm just recommending the hardware for a concept build. Also, will do with the Gigabyte mobo

>>56354453
I really wouldn't hold your breath for that, at least going forward. Nvidia does not give a shit about OS X any more. You'd be better off getting him an AMD card in all honesty.

>>56352073
>not doing whole production in ffmpeg

maxium kek

>>56354765
Then he'll get Vega. Doesn't matter to be honest, I'm just coming up with a ballpark price for top tier hardware

>>56354785
retardation at such point should be illegal

>>56354844
t. guibabby

>>56354858
>working at Warner Brothers on the new Mad Max film
>boss walks in
Uh.... What are you doing?
I'm just using an open source solution that has a fraction of the features found in the $20,000 production software you installed on my computer!

I'd fucking pay to see that. Yeah, like I'm going to edit a 200 million dollar movie on your EFF-approved bullshit

>>56352255
This honestly. I have a 13 inch MB Air for iOS development and general shitposting when away from a wall outlet for long periods of time. I have a Thinkpad with Loonix and a wangblows gayming desktop for everything else.

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>>56355167
>developing on a laptop
>all these different devices that are capable of the same thing
Such a waste.

Jesus Christ, if you're primarily at home, get a really nice PC (and a $70 chromebook for the rare instances that you need one in addition to your smartphone). If you're away from home a lot, get a decent laptop.

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Reporting in, works flawlessly, built with parts from tonymac list

>>56352293
>but macs limit you in terms of gaming.
What are you basing this on?

>>56355310
Considering that when you bootcamp, you can't install the latest drivers and the fact that games generally aren't made for OS X, yeah... That seems like a reasonable statement.

Also, you get shit performance for the price. I could build a $700 PC that outperforms my friend's $4000 iMac @ 1080p/1440p gaming

windows

I was always curious. Why self-proclaimed artists tend to use Mac?

>>56357781
because macs are better for art anon. dont u see

>>56357830
kek open a book faggot

>>56352349

>>If he's a professional music producer I doubt he needs a bloody soundblaster card.

Yeah and if he wants to play games I doubt he needs a video card.

I'm a fiction writer by trade and my work machine doesn't even have a keyboard.

>>56358082
I think he was saying that the music guy should already have a far better audio interface...