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I just built a Mini-ITX Hackintosh (dual-booting Windows 10 and Sierra) that is running great if you have any questions or interest concerning the parts I used.

They're way better now than they were a few years ago thanks to UEFI installations. No more having to do a complete backup prior to updates and having to fix all your kexts/drivers, or a complete reinstall for upgrading to the next OSX/MacOS major release. The biggest problem I have is needing to use a $6 USB adapter for sound, but it's so trivial compared to past headaches.

I was originally looking into buying a Mac Pro. I spent less than $1000 on this build, and got something much, much better than a $4k+ maxed-out Mac Pro or 2016 MBP, plus with the ability to upgrade storage, GPU, and RAM.

Would you mind adding a pcpartpicker list. I think I might go down this route. Thanks!

Not the original poster, but I also built a hackintosh in the last 2 months and its working great, here's the PCpartpicker list ($1350 without monitor): https://pcpartpicker.com/user/bshep/saved/xgn7P6

The only issue was getting the video card to work correctly and that was pretty easy after finding a tutorial on tonymac.

thanks a lot!

Here you go

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/pcparts45/saved/#view=YfcHxr

I'd be interested to see your part list and share any experiences you have with it. email is in profile if you don't want to share it here.

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/pcparts45/saved/#view=YfcHxr

Thanks! Wow that's a hd monitor. I have a 30" 2560x1600 and I thought that was nice. how do you like it?

It's really nice, but text can be hard to read without scaling or enlarging it. I haven't looked at any other 4k or 5k displays, but I think a 30" 4k would be much better. Sadly those are really expensive at the moment. The P2715Q is the best IPS 4k monitor in the price range, plus I got a great deal on a used one.

Even with the text issue, I think that it's still a significant upgrade over the Thunderbolt displays I was using before (I was using 2). Not quite as huge as going from my previous non-IPS 1920x1200 monitor to 2560x1440, though.

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