If you value your time at $0…

Topic here is you have no money = this

Before M1, Hackintosh was giving top-tier performance for 3-4x less money. With a day's worth of research. And then an hour here or there when doing yearly upgrade.

Is hackintosh still a thing now that Apple Si is a thing? If you're forced to use Intel CPU, you're not going to be using the latest/greatest OS.

Until a few days ago, the Mac Studio or Pro was sold with Xeon processors. I'd hope that Apple would continue to support those platforms with updates.

It was my understanding that the Studio came with M1 chips. Never heard of a Studio as a Mactel. Sure you're info is correct? Maybe thinking of the iMac Pro that was discontinued?

It was probably the Pro that I was thinking of, then.

edit: yeah it was the Mac Pro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro

It's still a thing. It will die off in few years. But it's going strong for now and I'm happily hackintoshing. I saw reports that upcoming MacOS Sonoma beta version is already running on a hack.

I wouldn't build a fresh hackintosh today though. M1/2 Mac mini has sane pricing/performance ratio IMO.

A Hackintosh tends to not work well if you don’t have the right hardware

It's easy to build a PC with known-to-work parts. And then it does work fine. Those parts are not particularly expensive either.

I'm writing this from my 2nd Hackintosh. And hackintosh is my daily driver since 2013. Including for iOS development.

If you’re building a whole new PC then it is expensive for someone without much money

No, it's not. You can easily build a cheap PC.

You may be thinking about 1337 gamerz gang. When you're going cheap, there're lots and lots of ways to save. E.g. you can get a fancy box or you can re-use a two decades cheap box just fine. Or you can live without it entirely... Cheap old power unit will work fine as long as you don't want beefy GPU. It's easy to get hold of older generation CPU/motherboard too which will work just fine for hackintosh. And then get a tiny SSD for booting (or skip this step entirely) and use an old HDD for storage. Keyboard/mouse cost peanuts too if you ain't going fancy. Old smaller display is cheap too. Hackintosh-wise, CPU/motherboard is pretty much the only crucial part.

Hardest part is to get wifi and bluetooth working. But you can skip that entirely to save money and headache. Personally I skipped it on my first hackintosh. Got it working during pandemics for shit and giggles though because a compatible part popped up in local ads. Now even airdrop and continuity works :)

It’s expensive compared to what you should have to pay, which is nothing because you should be able to use your existing PC. Even the cheapest possible PC will be a lot of money for many people

If you already have a PC that isn't working for you, sell it and/or exchange parts as needed.

You may want to check PC prices and how pretty poor countries are doing. It's no longer such a luxury as it was 20 years ago.

Also, it's lame to assume that every manufacturer must make their products compatible with any OS.