TL;DR: Convince me of a great reasons to build a Hackintosh instead of a switching to a PC
Mac user for 16 years. Was a computer science major with a custom built PC and then I switched to Apple when I switched majors to art. I was convinced that the UNIX based OS X was better than Windows and their BSOD and better for my uses in digital art.
I've stayed with Apple because I was vested in Adobe Creative Suite (when it was on CDs and hundreds and hundreds of dollars) and it never made sense to switch back even if the thought occurred to me.
Been watching the evolution of the Hackintosh community and had convinced myself that it was the way I would go for my next computer. My 2010 MBP is held together with blue painters tape, the webcam is dead, and only one USB port works.
If I go the Hackintosh route I feel that everything has to work (except wake from sleep using integrated graphics). However, I also want to kind of "futureproof" the build and that means things like using a mobo that will take 128GB memory. Overall I feel like the Golden Builds are somewhat limited.
Recently spec'd out a PC build with an X299 board and learned that some Hackintoshers aren't limiting themselves to X86. If I put together the PC I want, is there any reason I can't experiment with a second hard drive and put Mac OS X on it? The next question is, is it really worth my time? I'm used to the Mac OS, but I'm not sure I'm convinced that it's any better. Do you feel differently or is it more about the thrill of the build for you?
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