Why Hackintosh ?

What I wanted was a desktop computer with a good graphics card and upgradeable memory and hard-drives. For a while I toyed with the idea of getting an iMac but it felt wasteful not to use the gorgeous cinema display I still have. Also, my experience with trying to get the hard-drive in our home theatre Mac Mini replaced at the Apple Store, for an insane amount of money, made me think twice about buying an all-in-one Apple computer. This left me with no options; that is, no options from Apple. To be honest, I don’t feel good about doing this. I would like to spend my money with Apple because I think they have a fantastic operating system and great hardware. As you’ll see further down I’ve spent about €1,700 on my Hackintosh. The components are not cheap choices, in fact they are pretty decent, but still, I would have had no problem paying €2,000 for a comparable computer from Apple; maybe I would have expected FireWire 800 and integrated Bluetooth. What I was not prepared to do was to spend in excess of €5,000 for a computer with features I really didn’t need. My goal was to build a Beast-range Hackintosh, to compete with a Mac Pro. This means desktop CPU, which in turn means a i7 CPU system, fast DDR3 RAM, etc. Also, when you look at the prices it’s very possible that you feel you can buy the same part for less. This is entirely possible but things can be more expensive in Amsterdam and I opted to buy all parts from a single vendor that I trust.

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