new mac mini announced - gone down hill?

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by 8dB.co.uk

This can only be good news for ProToolsPC - they currently make the only truly viable Hackintosh in my opinion.

Meh?

I wouldn't go that far

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by 8dB.co.uk

. It's simple really - they want you to spend $7k and be locked into thunderbolt.

I know it's a tragedy - could have been a great option now it looks like a office machine.

[Brandonx1]

Originally Posted by YYR123

I know it's a tragedy - could have been a great option now it looks like a office machine.

It always looked like an office machine

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by YYR123

I know it's a tragedy - could have been a great option now it looks like a office machine.

Performed like a great one (how about that) but now it's relegated to the dire and mire of emails and eBay clicks

[guitardom]

Originally Posted by YYR123

Meh?

I wouldn't go that far

What you talkin bout??

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by 8dB.co.uk

This can only be good news for ProToolsPC - they currently make the only truly viable Hackintosh in my opinion.

I didn't think they sold it with Mac OSX installed and supported, do they?

My take was you were on your own in that regard.

Of course they probably can't legally, but isn't that what make a Hackintosh a Hackintosh? OSX installed on a PC.

Give me that, make it updatable, clone-able, have it behave EXACTLY like a Mac.... you got my money.

[8dB.co.uk]

In other words, reverse engineer an "old" MacPro, but with 8 Ram slots, DDR4, PCIE 4, lots of it, the list of advantages of a Hackintosh against a new MacPro goes on forever.

A friend of mine with a ProToolsPC recently had a panic that he'd fried his motherboard. He was mightily reassured that he could quickly and cheaply swap it out, and not have to return to manufacturer.

[Bookerv12]

We have a Hack here that we set up as an experiment, running HDN.
PT 10.
It could not perform better.
It is now the main machine.
We put it in a machine room so the Mac heads won't be insulted. (As long as you tell them it's a really expensive Mac pro in the other room, they are happy.)
Having some annoying problems on HDX on a new MP.

Right now, knowing what I know, after the Mini slap, I would absolutely go the Hack route if I were setting up a new work machine.

We are researching the latest TBolt motherboards right now from Gigabyte.
There is a little bit of Tbolt wackyness on the current hack, but we really don't use Tbolt for anything but a firewire 800 adaptor.

Take it from a long time Mac user,
Hacks are worth looking into.

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by guitardom

What you talkin bout??

Hey you are a distributor so your POV is biased!!!

The only hack that's worth it is your own!!! That's the fun right!!!

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by Bookerv12

Right now,.......after the Mini slap

I know that was a slap in the face. Gimme a quad gimme a hex but don't for G-d sakes gimme a Dual!!!

Originally Posted by Bookerv12

We are researching the latest TBolt motherboards right now from Gigabyte.

There is a little bit of Tbolt wackyness on the current hack, but we really don't use Tbolt

That's all I'm missing from mine is TB hopefully they will be more stable whenever I need to update