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Re:Apple iMac Pro goes on sale December 14th by dijit on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:50AM (#15906415)
I saw a dude with a ryzen hackintosh rig, it performed incredibly but... even among enthusiasts he mentioned 'This was not for the faint hearted. I don't recommend you actually do this- even though I got it to work with minimal quirks it took probably more than a month of my life".

Obviously not all hackintosh's are not as bad as that (AMD being a completely unsupported platform in Apple-land) but the /risk/ of it is a very large blocker for many people.

I bought my first mac precisely to avoid these kinds of issues.

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Re:Apple iMac Pro goes on sale December 14th by jawngee on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @11:07AM (#15906599)
If you stick to "standard" parts there is little to no risk. There is so much information out there on which parts are compatible and which aren't.

The hardest obstacle for me was sourcing some parts because they weren't available here in Vietnam. I had to fly to Singapore for most of it. Ironically, it was cheaper to do that for the parts I could get here, so everything worked out in the end.

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Re:Apple iMac Pro goes on sale December 14th by wolfgke on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:56AM (#15906472)
> Obviously not all hackintosh's are not as bad as that (AMD being a completely unsupported platform in Apple-land) but the /risk/ of it is a very large blocker for many people.

> I bought my first mac precisely to avoid these kinds of issues.

The lock-in to Apple products should also be considered as a large blocker.

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