You are watching this video probably because you are not satisfied with performance of
your current computer, most probably Mac, and you felt down of a chair when you saw
Apple's prices and options :) So I will tell you right now 5 reasons, why you should do
a wise decision and consider to build a Hackintosh!
Hi, I’m Teresa from morgonaut.cloud and I help people with their Apple Macintosh computers
and Hackintosh builds.
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Despite dozens of myths flying around internet about how Hackintosh is hard to build, how
it’s not so compatible or stable, bla bla bla = the reason number 5 why to build a Hackintosh
is…
IT IS EASY.
It can be really very easy, when first - someone really knows what to do and how to do it,
or second - take advantage of for example my already done, tested and verified builds,
for which I offered to download whole already prepared and tweaked EFI folder configuration.
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about - the EFI folder contains all that “magic”,
that makes an ordinary PC computer a perfect Hackintosh.
So doesn’t matter if you are absolute beginner at this, really all you need to do, is to
just buy exact components, which you find in video descriptions of my videos and download
that EFI folder and just copy it to EFI partition of your Hackintosh disk.
Of course you need to install macOS on that disk, but I’ve done very simple and easy
to understand tutorial how to do it.
Again, all you need you can find in this video description.
So if you will follow my steps and advices, you can have your perfect Hackintosh up and
running in just an hour.
So those who say to build a Hackintosh is not easy are liars or they simply don’t
know how to correctly do that.
And that’s why I’m here, I help people to build a perfect Hackintosh for their needs
and I even offer personal individual support or remote help.
In past years it was much harder to make things working as expected, but these days it was
never been easier to build a Hackintosh.
Reason number 4 - control the specs.
With Hackintosh you have freedom of choice.
If you will look at what Apple currently offers, you are limited to just few configurations.
In most options you cannot choose your own GPU at all, even it’s so important part
of any build.
Look at this, you can change your GPU only on most expensive configurations.
Vega 20 with just 4GB of RAM in 2019?
Sorry :) No, I don’t want that.
I want to choose CPU, memory brand, capacity, timings, RGB, GPU of my own choice with ammount
of VRAM of my choice.
Look at this, 6-core i5 paired with RX570?
So right now for example for video editors this GPU would be a bottleneck.
Watch my video called “Budget 4K Video Editing Hackintosh”, where I have proven that even
Intel Core i3-8350k paired with RX580 is in perfect balance, so for this i5 CPU in this
iMac you would need more powerful GPU to have a balanced system.
But Apple does not give you this option.
So, let’s have a deeper look what Apple offers to us in 2019.
Let’s choose the latest 2019 iMac and try to configure it.
So let’s start with the first one.
What we can change here.
No CPU options, only up to 16 gig of RAM?
In 2019?
Really?
1 TB 5400 rpm prehistoric mechanical harddrive?
No option to change GPU?
So what about the more expensive model, Retina 4K, it looks more promising, so we can choose
between i3 and i7, no i5 and i9 options, only up to 32 gigs of RAM?
And again, old mechanical harddrive :( No option to change GPU?
OK, so what about the most expensive one.
4K, 6-core cpu, i5 or i7, no i9 option, and again only up to 32 gigs, for 600 hundred bucks??
Really?
600 hundred bucks for 32 gigs of RAM?
Look at this, 64 gigs for 400 bucks, Apple’s 32 for 600 bucks, 64 for 400 hundred bucks
What the hell is going on here???
In Apple probably think we are total idiots.
And finaly we have first option to change the GPU, for 350 bucks we can upgrade to Vega 20.
But with only 4 gigs of VRAM?
In 2019 only 4 gigs for 350 bucks?
OK so let’s have look at the more expensive 27 inch model.
First option, No option for CPU, only up to 32 gigs, great :) again, old mechanical harddrive,
can we change GPU?
No??
No option to change GPU!
So let’s try the more expensive one, we can change CPU from i5 to i9, what about I
would like to have i7?
No way.
Oh, option for 64 gigs of RAM for 1000 bucks!
Look at this.
64, 2666 Mhz for 400 bucks, 64 2666 for 1000 bucks.
Can I change GPU?
No, I can’t :) In which universe is Apple operating?
Not in mine :) I have no idea why Apple offers not balanced
configurations, maybe they think we are absolutely dumb.
I mentioned in my videos, how crucial is to choose the correct hardware combination for
music workstations, for video editing systems etc.
Simply no part should be a bottleneck, so you can fully utilize all components in your build.
With Hackintosh you can achieve better balanced system then with most Apple configurations.
According to reason number four there is reason number 3 - Hackintosh is easily exapandable
and upgradeable.
You can start with Intel Core i3 CPU and RX 560 for example and anytime later when your
demands will rise, you can upgrade to even Intel Core i9 CPU and multiple Vega Frontier
Edition GPUs.
In iMacs you can change yourself only memory.
In MacBooks you cannot change anything.
With Hackintosh you have again absolute freedom.
You can choose huge disk array, choose cooling you want, you can even build custom water
loop, you can add RGB fans if you want, you can choose a case of your liking, or even
rebuild it to some original Apple PowerMac G5 or Mac Pro case like you can see in my other videos.
Simply with Hackintosh you have absolute control over all your components.
Reason number 2:
Performance versus costs ratio.
Apple in past decade shipped MACs with few years old CPUs and GPUs :) but recent years
it’s getting little better.
But still…
Apple computers have really stunning design, that’s without debate, but on the other
hand, this amazing design have it’s own downside - it does not offer proper heat disipation
and cooling efficiency.
That results to throtling of components even Apple CPUs are clocked lower then it’s PC counterparts.
In my video called “14-core iMac Pro killer” I made a comparison of Intel Core i9-9900k
Hackintosh build versus Apple 14-core iMac Pro.
In multi core performance this Hackintosh was 2.4% slower, in single core workloads
was 29% faster, but overall 3.3x cheaper!!!
Price of this ultimate killer Hackintosh was $2434 versus $8000 of the iMac Pro.
So on this single build you can save $5566.
It’s insane.
If you will want for example upgrade memory on that iMac Pro, Apple is charging for 64GB
1000 Dollars!
And you cannot choose which model or brand.
For your Hackintosh you can choose any super fast memory you want, even those with very
high frequency and low timings for 2 times cheaper.
Or choose slow memory at speeds Apple offers and you can save even more money.
And finaly we are getting to my most favourite reason why to build a Hackintosh
Reason number 1:
Repair costs.
Apple computers have 1 year worldwide warranty.
You can extend this period by buying AppleCare, which is another additional quite high expense.
If you build a Hackintosh, you get at least 2 years, mostly 3 years warranty on all components
right from your local dealer and some components have even lifetime warranty.
And now the funniest part.
When some component will die in a Mac, the repair costs would be quite the same as a
price of new Mac, because Apple does not repair their computers by replacing faulty component,
because it’s design is mostly just one single piece of logic board, so fixing a faulty GPU
on that motherboard is not possible, Apple will simply replace the whole logic board,
even the CPU and all other parts are working great.
I recommend you to visit YouTube channel of Louis Rossmann.
He repairs all kind of Apple computers.
In most cases people who were in official Apple Store to ask for repair got answer something like,
“we can repair it, but it’s gonna cost you 1300 bucks, we need to replace the
whole board” etc.
This guy repaired it for free, problem was just bent pin on LCD connector.
There is also one lady Jessa Jones, who is able to recover data from flooded iPhones
after Apple said, no it is IMPOSSIBLE and adviced you to buy new iPhone.
So now you have probably better idea how is Apple fooling us, cheating and constantly
trying to pull money out of our pockets.
Untill people will stop accept that insane Apple behaviour, nothing will change.
It looks like Apple completely forget, who saved Apple before bankrupcy lot of years
ago - yes, we, we saved Apple, we, professional users.
But Apple does not care about us anymore.
Ufff, I still don’t want to believe it, but it looks unfortunately like that spirit
of good old days under Steve Jobs leading is definately gone.
So, what are you waiting for?
Go ahead and build youself a perfect Hackintosh.
Build yourself a wonder machine, expandable, upgradable, powerful, easy to repair and
save lot of money on it.
You absolutely don’t have to feel bad about it when Apple is treating us like idiots!
If you would have any troubles with building your Hackintosh, I am always here to help,
in this video description you can find all necessary informations.
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