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Indeed. I get a little depressed thinking about the hours I've wasted on the tonymac forums looking up solutions to the problems I've having and trying random things to see if it worked.

Time I could've spent much more productively.

Geeks tend to forget that there is more to a computer than raw numbers.

Design, noise, materials, software (try getting that inspiron with apps like garageband, imove, pages and numbers for less than $1099), support (walk into the apple store and someone's there to help) and general ecosystem (time machine, app store, UNIX foundation (no real viruses)).

That's what I thought, but it runs ubuntu and windows without issues. Many people have similar issues. I actually think the freezing has been solved with a new kext i installed recently, but how can I be 100% sure?

1080p is fine for 21". (Until they go retina). Mind you, the 27" has 1440p.

1) it's thin and pretty

2) self-contained. Only a power cable is required. Makes a neat desk.

3) it's completely silent (but then again so is a mac mini)

4) the higher-end models have an actual graphics card (mac mini has very bad graphics)

I have a hackintosh, and it's a nightmare.

Even though I copied a "gold build" from "TonyMacx86" (the "hackintosh authority"), the machine freezes randomly every hour, sometimes a week. But it will freeze and I'll have to do a hard reset.

Also, many of Apples services won't work with a hackintosh. iMessage and FaceTime, for example. To fix it, you'll need to call Apple and convince them to whitelist your fake generated system ID, risking getting your apple ID banned.

Something also happened during the installation so I have to have a Mavericks USB drive attached at all times to boot the damn thing.

Oh, and don't forget you have to reconfigure the whole thing when you apply an update.

Had I known these things I'd just have saved up a little more and bought the real thing.

The number of gigahertz is irrelevant these days - unless you're doing heavy computation or playing games.

That's such a good idea.

Tor really needs some more relays. With this it could be more interesting to companies as a business model.

One thing I could be worried about is abuse - could a scriptkiddie deploy a botnet and earn TorCoins with this, like it's done with bitcoin miners (although not that effective any more).

I feel like I'm missing a lot of information due to lack of context here.

Is the source for this available somewhere?