- Hey, guys, this is Austin
and today my good buddy Matt is here
to try and make a little bit
of a different style of video.
So, this right here is an Intel NUC.
You may of caught a video we did recently
talking about a very unusual Nuc, but this is
a little bit more of a standard one
and at $400 your getting a core i5
your getting a thunderbolt port there's a lot to like.
Anyway so the plan is very simple this NUC is actually
pretty Hackintoshable this is a quad-core Core i5
now with these Nucs they don't come completely
ready to go out of the box, so we have everything
we need except for the RAM as well as the SSD
Matt has already installed that
but we have 16 Gigs of DDR4 RAM
as well as we have a 500GB SSD, so.
As far as putting that stuff together
it's really simple, where it's gonna' be a little
bit more difficult most likely
is you actually have to Hackintosh it.
- So with this particular model the Wi-Fi card
and Bluetooth card are not compatible with Mac OS.
- That's pretty common for Hackintosh
Most of the time that doesn't work.
- Unfortunately with this one,
it's actually soldered to the motherboard.
- That's the thing with Hackintosh is
most of the time you can get like 80% data
but usually your going to need like dongles
or your going to need like a USB DAC
or usually especially when it comes to Wi-Fi
just plug in a USB Wi-Fi card,
that's supported by MAC OS, but just to give a little
bit of a context here right, compared to a Mac mini
so if we got the Core-i3 version which is quad-core
so roughly equivalent 16 Gigs of RAM
is which what we have in here and then 512 Gigs SSD
the Mac mini would cost $1400 straight from Apple,
this all in, is what $600?
- $600, $650 tops for our configuration
depending on the spec of,
you know the brand of RAM and SSD you went with.
- The important thing is we can actually hook up
an external GPU to this guy so in theory
we're getting iMac level performance
for, a third the price, I mean we don't have a monitor but
- Yeah, yeah.
- So one of the things you do need
unless things have changed you do need a Mac
to do a lot of this setup right?
- Yeah, so you have to have an existing Mac
which, have here then you'll prep it with something
called UniBeast which will create a bootable USB drive
- [Austin] Which is right here already have it installed
- As well as some configuration things.
- You're definitely losing some things when you're
going with the Hackintosh but just considering
that this is smaller than a Mac mini it should be
roughly equivalent, and we're talking about something
that costs less than half the price
I think it might be worth the gamble
I'm just really curious to see how it all works.
First of all, shout-out to Quin, SnazzyQ.
He had a great video on, was this ?
- Exact model
- The exact model of the NUC, so yeah.
- His had less memory though.
- Well yeah obviously we had to be superior
we can't do a lamer version of a video
someones already done we had to
do a better version, otherwise it's stealing.
So if I fire this up it should start to boot right?
- Yeah it will boot into the Nucs splash screen first
and then it should go into the clover boot screen,
which is how we are tricking it.
- Damn that's the thing man, I love doing Hackintosh stuff
but like it's such a headache right,
like there are so many random
little issues that you run into
I mean it's cool and I think it's one of those things
where it's maybe not like a badge of honor for a nerd
like oh I built a computer I made a Hackintosh but
it's one of those things where you have to have
some patience you have to kinda' sorta' learn
how to do it and be ready to tinker on things right
cause' it will break.
So looks like we are into the language setup
this is slow process over USB 2.0
it literally took like 20 minutes to boot.
(vocalizing)
Oh here's a thing.
- [Matt] Reboot and select proper media boot device.
- So I'm actually going through here
this is recommending that we actually
format it as Mac OS extended as apposed to Apple file.
- Yeah
- Is that something we want to do?
- Let's try that again.
Alright so we figured out what the problem was
it was less the formatting that was the problem
but more that we didn't have the APFS driver for the SSD.
- So when we tried to boot it just didn't see it.
- [Matt] Because we're doing Mojave
it needed additional drivers.
- Which was literally we just had to drop it onto
the flash drive it saw everything it booted up
and now we are actually properly
installing everything onto the SSD.
- [Matt] Correct.
- So in theory in nine minutes we will have
a working copy of Mojave.
- We'll have a copy of Mojave,
with almost no working drivers.
- Okay it is day two and I think Matt has made progress
while I was not here, what's up?
- It's mostly working.
- Okay, so we see a Core i5 we see our 16 Gigs of DDR4
we also see our iris plus graphics.
So the cool thing is this Nuc does share the exact
same processor from the mid spec
Core i5 13" Macbook Pro.
Mind you no battery no screen and stuff
we're looking at $2200 for this
pretty much exact same performance,
and yet we got it for $600 and a couple sleepless nights
for Matt, so what is not working?
I see we're hooked up to ethernet, is the Wi-Fi not working?
- We do have an external Wi-Fi adapter
but it's currently not working, you can't actually
restart the computer right now.
- [Austin] So you have to turn it off
and manually turn it back on?
- Yeah, if you try and restart it, actually go in the
menu and restart it just freezes
so you have to hard restart it currently.
- [Austin] Do we have Gigpesh installed?
- [Matt] We do.
- Okay, cool let's give that a try.
For the most part we now have a Mac
that's up and running right now.
- Yeah, you could I mean if you're doing light tasks
you could totally be using this system.
- Oh wow that's really fast,
5020 on the single core
and 17838 on multicore so that's actually faster than the
13" Macbook Pro about 400 points higher
on the single thread and over 1000 points higher
on multi thread which kinda' makes sense because
the 13" MacBook even though it has the same processor
It's a thin, small MacBook,
so this has more cooling for sure.
This is a Gigabyte RX 580,
the 580 is one of the better supported cards on the Mac OS.
This is the exact same GPU you will find in for example
the 5k iMac and generally speaking we've used
this with Macs before and it works pretty well.
- Natively the 580 works in Mojave.
- It shows iris plus graphics,
so let's switch the HDMI over
and see if this actually works.
- When I tried this before it did not show me that
until I plugged this in.
- GPU is spinning, we have LED's, oh! Immediately.
- Immediately.
- Okay let's make sure this is actually showing up RX 580
so we have external GPU we have 16 Gigs of RAM 500 Gig SSD
this tiny little box, in the entire package
is less than a Mac mini
by a lot right?
- Yeah, yeah.
- And we're looking at, how much is the 580 cost right now?
It's like 400 bucks right?
- I'm not sure off the top of my head,
but it's a solid little box and it's cheap.
- This is exactly $400 and this is the higher end
eight Gig SKU, so for almost exactly $1000
we have the NUC, we have 16 Gigs of RAM
a 500 Gig super fast PCI SSD and we have a RX 580,
dude.
So that my friends is building the Nucintosh,
now really the only next thing we have to do is
put this side by side with an actual Mac mini
which costs much more and we even have GPU
and we will still be cheaper than a Mac mini.
Good job Matt, thanks for doing all the hard work
and letting me show up and what you doing?
Oh no.