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Is this too much to ask for?
The sweet spot for my kind of editing, an itch that Apple won’t let me scratch. The mini comes up short, the Imac pro is thousands more for a screen that i don’t want or need, The All New cheesegrater is a Xeon monster that is complete overkill. My client is all Mac all the time, so the Dell is a non starter. Oh well, the Yanks are in first place, so who’s complaining.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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yup. Same with Puget Systems, and HP Z4. Both nice (and of course, the custom gaming computers at a similar price).
I still think the new Mac Pro would be ok, IF they charged $5999 and it could do at least what an iMac Pro could do for that $5999. But of course, it can’t. So these PC’s just look great.
Bob Zelin
Bob Zelin
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Apple could definitely use a “Mac” category of computers. An iMac with out the screen, a MacMini that’s 4X larger but with replaceable dGPU / drives.
The cost should in the iMac-range but given no screen you should get way more bang for the buck. Defiantly Core-based, not Xeon-based. Or possibly AMD-based but then Thunderbolt is an issue.
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There is a way, but it involves cheaing. Hackintosh. I have a three year old one that still runs strong, cost me $1700 to build, and specs match iMac Pro. Before the end of the year, I’ll upgrade some hardware (including logic board, RAM, processor, GPU) for around $1500 and be a machine that’s between an iMacPro and new MacPro. But cheaper, better expandibility, cheaper, and cheaper.
Shane
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Which OS version are you able to run?
– Oliver
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Any. I’m on High Sierra, friend of mine who got me into this is running Mojave. Another editor I work with just built one and is running Mojave. When a new OS comes out, the Hackintosh crowd is typically able to get it working in fairly short order on Hack parts.
Shane
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When I had my Hackintoshes, I used https://www.tonymacx86.com/ for ever updated current info.
Although they recommend specific builds, I didn’t have those parts and just went ahead with what I had. The first one was just my PC – I set it up so that if an external drive running MacOS was powered it would be a Mac, and if not it was a PC. After a while I found I needed both at the same time, so I purpose build a Hackintosh using a KVM switch – actually two, for dual monitors.
Bernie
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Don’t know how to edit these posts, perhaps the update will fix it. Should read –
“…..so I purpose build a Hackintosh, using a KVM switch – actually two – for dual monitors.”
A disadvantage of trying to follow TonyMac recommended builds is that things change very quickly, and the ones you see on the website are likely to have been superceded by the time you get to them. My experience from years ago suggests that it probably doesn’t matter that much – pick a motherboard, processor and memory to suit the budget.
Bernie
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What do you do for Thunderbolt ports?
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Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com
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[Oliver Peters] “What do you do for Thunderbolt ports?”
With the introduction of Intel’s Z390 chipset, TB3 is readily available on PC motherboards.
For the record, TB3 has been available on PC motherboards for quite some time. I’ve had a gigabyte TB3 board for nearly two years.
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What are they?
Sorry – please excuse my not-quite-real ignorance, my times with Macs and Hackintoshes were a while back now.
In the world in which I’m now teaching I don’t need superfast technology, but nevertheless I have plenty of SATA 3 drive space in my current generic PC case, and 2 x M2 availability on my Gigabyte motherboard. A 2TB NVME drive costs under £200, but I haven’t actually bought one yet – I expect I will soon, just to try it out.
………oh, and also it has an internal Thunderbolt connector, because I just checked. I assume that it connects to this – https://www.gigabyte.com/uk/Motherboard/GC-Thunderbolt-2-rev-10#ov
So I suppose I could go really fast if I have to – but of course, not being on a Mac, I don’t need much in the way of external high speed connections .
Bernie
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