Hackintosh decision...(yes/no)

[Lindon]

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:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-Hackintosh-HP8300-i7-Quad-Core-240Gb-SSD-16Gb-RAM-Mini-desktop/143238857819?_trkparms=aid%3D444000%26algo%3DSOI.DEFAULT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20170221122447%26meid%3Df694d7a36910481e9a734a3c041d8b90%26pid%3D100752%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D3%26sd%3D143296886944%26itm%3D143238857819&_trksid=p2047675.c100752.m1982

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?

[Christoph Hart]

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.

[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

[hisefilo]

@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

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-MacBook-Pro-13-3-Core-i5-8GB-RAM-500GB-HDD-2011-macOS-10-13-High-Sierra/283431025377?epid=5018172403&hash=item41fdce3ae1:g:1QkAAOSwxDxcqxZC

[d.healey]

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

[hisefilo]

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

[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.

[hisefilo]

@d-healey YOU ARE A BRAVE MAN!