Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas

Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by overcast on Monday September 23, 2019 @12:31PM (#21050478)

I feel like most businesses at that level of need have long moved away from the MacPro, or they are out of business. For the rest of us mortals wanting a tower mac, the price of entry is too prohibitive. Base for my 2008 MacPro was in the ball park of $2900, and it was a beast. What is the base now, $6000? It's basically hackintosh from here on out, which works amazingly well now.

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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by _ph_ on Monday September 23, 2019 @01:32PM (#21051207)

Yes, I actually had planned to buy a new Mac Pro if it had been similar in price to your 2008 Mac Pro. I am currently using a 27 inch iMac and am looking for a desktop machine with a decent GPU and decent internal storage. So at 3k for a Mac Pro plus some money for upgrades, I could have grudgingly justified. At 6k it is just way too expensive.

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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by theflyinghorse on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:31PM (#21052653)

I've been using Mint (ubuntu derivative) for a few years now on my laptop and I'm absolutely loving it, more so when you consider the price difference. (am a software dev so linux is great for me)

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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by overcast on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @08:08AM (#21059123)

I use the same on my dev desktop(I use all three OSes).

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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by dkonofalski on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:36PM (#21052702)

Hackintoshes are great but I would never rely on one for any kind of production work if my business depended on it. I had a Hackintosh tower that went completely dead after something happened with device IDs. The machine was unusable. I had system updates disabled too so I'm not even sure what happened. Had to reinstall the OS and Clover (or whatever the loader was at the time).

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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by vonseel on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:08PM (#21054743)

I had an older (2013 or 14) Lenovo TS140 sitting around that I recently installed Mojave on. It took a little bit of experimentation to work out the kinks, but I've got it working almost flawlessly with a NVME drive in a PCIE adapter, 32GB RAM, and a Broadcom wifi card to enable Airdrop/continuity/handoff. Not bad for an older machine and less than $250 in extra parts, most of which I had already purchased over the years.

I used these guides:

https://hackintosh.gitbook.io/-r-hackintosh-vanilla-desktop-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/wiki/faq#wiki_wifi_compa...

The only thing I haven't been able to solve/fix is I can't use software that depends on WiBu Codemeter[1] - some sort of piracy prevention. This includes stuff like newer versions of Antares AutoTune, and other audio production software. WiBu installs a third-party kext, which doesn't play well with my audio interface for some reason (RME, also installs a third-party kext) - causes a lot of pops and clicks or dropouts until I uninstall WiBU. If anyone has any suggestions on workaround for this, please respond here!

PS: after losing my system too many times in the past, now I keep a mirror image backup of all my systems in case I break something... Esp. with hackintosh it is just too easy to lose a system.

[1]: https://www.wibu.com/us/products/codemeter.html

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Re:Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas by overcast on Monday September 23, 2019 @03:40PM (#21052746)

Like I said, businesses have moved on, the rest of us found alternatives.

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