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Re:Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess by ux-app on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:39PM (#14056916)
Just bite the bullet and hackintosh. It's ridiculously easy. I put one together in an afternoon with parts I had lying around. It even had GPU acceleration for all those silly UI animations to run smoothly. There are lists of hardware that are guaranteed to work. I'm not a Mac guy so I scrapped the system, but as a bored weekend project it was fun.

I had no issues installing updates, networking was fine etc.

Re:Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess by gambiting on Friday April 07, 2017 @06:45AM (#14058649)
It's not really an option in enterprise environment though. If you run a company and have to use Macs, then none of the options available at the moment give you access to lots of power and/or expandability.
Re:Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess by dplgk on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:21AM (#14060434)
Just built my second one because of their BS. Cost about $1100 for a computer that Apple would charge at least $5000 for. I've inspired friends as well because the process has become fairly easy nowadays.
Re:Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess by AdamJacobMuller on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:45PM (#14056942)
I tried this a year or so ago, my only stumbling block was getting iMessage/iCloud working properly, which was very difficult, has that improved?
Re:Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess by exidy on Friday April 07, 2017 @03:05AM (#14057730)
It's improved in that the causes of failure are now better understood. Getting it working means generating some UUIDs and things. e.g. https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/an-idiots-guide-to-imessa...
Re:Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess by ux-app on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:48PM (#14056959)
No idea sorry. I put the system together to tinker with some iOS dev, but lost interest after a few months. I don't use any of the rest of the Mac ecosystem, so not sure how that functions.

What's special about iMessage/iCloud which poses an issue on a hackintosh?

Re:Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess by dplgk on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:16AM (#14060387)
Messages, Facetime and iCloud work for me on Sierra on my new hackintosh without any fiddling. On my previous Hackintosh, which I believe is running Mavericks, those services don't work.
Re:Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess by appendix on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:53AM (#14057219)
I ran into this too. As far as I know, nope, it has not improved.