I just haven't had to worry so much about compatibility and driver issues before.Īt the minimum I'd like to roughly match the performance of a current 6-core Mac Pro. I've built PCs before, and just about two years ago built an unRAID storage array, so the build and installation process itself doesn't scare me off. So, despite the fact that the Hackintosh concept still makes me a bit nervous, it's becoming a lot more tempting. So much for Moore's Law these days.Īdd on top of that that I'd prefer a good olde-fashioned tower design, with room to add optical drives and extra hard drives internally, and the slow pace of Mac Pro upgrades coming out of of Apple, and Apple's current Mac Pro offerings still aren't very tempting to me, even with my old system getting so long in the tooth. A new Mac Pro would be about twice as fast for software that doesn't take advantage of multiple cores, but for the thing I do which cries out the most for performance - HD video decoding and encoding - it's the multi-core performance that matters most.Įven a new 6-core Mac Pro, at $4000, doesn't quite double the multi-core performance of my old Mac Pro, seven years later. ![]() ![]() ![]() What amazes me (in a negative way), and explains why I haven't upgraded for so long, is that if I were to spend the same ~$3000 that I spent seven years ago (not counting added optical drives and some third-party RAM) for a new Mac Pro, I'd get a system that only benchmarks about 30% faster for multi-core performance. I've never kept any other computer in active service for as long as seven years, but that's how long I've been using my early 2008 Mac Pro, a 2.8 GHz 8-core (dual quad) system, as my primary desktop computer. ![]() Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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