Waiting for Apple again. And again. And again …

[Shawn Miller]

[Lance Bachelder] “That’s an old article and states: “Clock-per-clock, Core i7-5XXX and Xeon E5 v3 CPUs have identical performance”

My point was the newer 8 core i7 for instance, runs at 3.2Ghz and runs $999 – the older Xeon they tested was a 3.0Ghz model that would run you about $1299 on Amazon today. Of course if money is no object you can build a screaming dual Xeon system but I was just talking about a new i7 machine vs. a current Mac Pro – nothing else.”

Fair enough.

Shawn

[Oliver Peters]

[Ryan Holmes] “I’ve been looking more seriously at the HP Z workstations. You can get Thunderbolt 2.0 on those if that’s your concern:
https://www8.hp.com/us/en/workstations/z840.html“

And to throw a little marketing hype on the pile:
https://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/workstations/mac-to-z.html

Also their Z1 all-in-one workstations are very solid. Here’s a review I did on one about 2 years ago:
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/hp-z1-g2-workstation/

Oliver

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Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Daniel Ludwig]

Well,
the new Hackintosh are based on the Z170-boards. tony updated the buyers guide a few month ago.

there is a very interesting one: Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH with 2 x thunderbolt 3 on board, which are fully working, but don´t expect hot plug. all tb-devices need to be pluged while starting the machine.

I am preparing a machine for one of my customers soon.

I also have 2 others in my office, based on the older Z97, one built on an asus-board, another one with gigabyte as well with 2 x TB2 onboard.

it´s a bit of learning-curve to prepare these machines, but finally, if thery are working, a good and more cheep alternative compared to apple.

[Shane Ross]

[Daniel Ludwig] “there is a very interesting one: Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH with 2 x thunderbolt 3 on board, which are fully working”

How do you get them working? The Mac OS doesn’t support TB3 yet. I was looking at these boards but kept seeing posts were people couldn’t get the ports working.

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[Daniel Ludwig]

hi again,
TB3 was introduced with intel skylake-processors Z170, you can find it for example within the new macbook.

prior mac ox 10.11.4 not the entire processor-architecture was implemented within mac os, so TB3 haven´t been working on hackintoshes. but now it´s working, has been confirmed by several users.