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> unless you pay the ridiculous price for a top-of-the-line MacBook Pro

If you consider the time you'll spend tweaking your hackintosh into a useful state and the risk of bricking it on every update, it's actually a bargain.

I wouldn't buy a Mac to run Linux, but I wouldn't buy anything else to run OSX.

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I built a Hackintosh 2.5 years ago and haven't had any issues. I highly recommend it to anyone with minimum Google skills.

Yep, just upgraded mine to Mavericks and had absolutely no issues. You just need to make sure you buy components that are tried and tested by the hackintosh community.

How often have you had to re-install the boot loader and/or kexts? Each time you upgrade OS X, sometimes, or never?

Never. To upgrade to Mavericks I just created a USB installer using unibeast, booted from USB and followed the usual OSX install process. All my files and apps were left untouched.

That was my experience with "Hackintoshing" as well, back in the Leopard days. It was a fun, fun hack but the constant "will the next update break or brick my setup?" factor made it more of a curiosity than something that could be relied upon.

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