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    • LindonL
      Lindon
      last edited by

      So my access to a Mac has been sporadic - which is no way to run a development business as we all know, but as yet I dont have a revenue stream from the Mac plug-ins(well any HISE-based plug-ins yet really) so I dont have a lot of cash-to-splash.

      So I was thinking of getting a Hackintosh, something like this:

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      Has anyone any experience with this sort of set-up for HISE development?

      @Christoph-Hart - can you think of any HISE-specific problems likely to show up?

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      • Christoph HartC
        Christoph Hart
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        I don't have any experience with Hackintoshs, but my educated guess is that there are a lot of nasty issues around the corner waiting to make your life more difficult if you don't use a "original" mac hardware for development - as things like codesigning and compiling might have more strict requirements to "genuity" than using it as day-to-day tool.

        The best way to get a mac for development is a used / refurbished Mac Mini 2012. You can still develop on Windows, but use this for compiling.

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        • hisefiloH
          hisefilo @Lindon
          last edited by hisefilo

          @Lindon NO with huge N and O. I did a hackintosh 5 years ago. Updating was a pain. Got lot of kernel panics. Etc etc.
          Is like having a Mac without the best of a Mac (zero hardware issues/compatibilities with OS since they do both. Hardware and software)
          Just my 2 cents. A Mac user since 1995

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          • hisefiloH
            hisefilo @Lindon
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            @Lindon this will be more than enough. And if you get a solid state hd you'll be as good as with a brand new

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            • d.healeyD
              d.healey
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              I'm using a 2012 Mac Mini that someone gave me, I've triple booted it with Linux Mint 17, Mojave, and Win 10. It was a little tricky to set up initially but it's running smoothly now :)

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              • hisefiloH
                hisefilo @d.healey
                last edited by

                @d-healey triple boot??? WOW, Bootcamp allows only Mac/Win thing. Are u using grub or something like that?

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                • d.healeyD
                  d.healey @hisefilo
                  last edited by d.healey

                  @hisefilo I'm using bootcamp for Mac and Windows and then I made an extra partition for Mint. I'm using rEFInd as the boot manager.

                  This is the guide I used - https://robpickering.com/triple-boot-macbook-pro-macos-windows-10-linux/

                  Everything went fine until I got cocky and decided to add an extra partition that all the OSs could see so that I could share data between them. What followed was 9 hours of misery, but then I got it all working :)

                  I'm using one of these and one of these. So I can connect the Mac Mini to the same monitor, mouse, and keyboard that I use for my main PC. I just press a couple of buttons to swap between the PC and the Mac Mini. Much better than having to work with two separate setups.

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                  • hisefiloH
                    hisefilo @d.healey
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                    @d-healey YOU ARE A BRAVE MAN!

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