I wonder if hackintosh websites had a sudden spike in membership?

no it'll be same as before. hackintosh takes time to adjust and even then, there are some little things that dont work right.

if youre a hobbyist/hacker and like to tinker with stuff, its a great approach. but for a serious user/professional or company, which is the crowd that fits within Pro's abilities - you just pay more to get the real deal, support and warranty.

anyway, building xeon hackintosh was never that good from value perspective.

i can see some spike in interest for people like me (id be getting hackintosh cause i do some heavy stuff but not on daily basis - i need headless iMac basically with 2-3 HDD bays) but not as big as you think probably.

 

I don't see why it makes little sense as a work station or why there would be a sudden increase of members to hackintosh websites. Building, tinkering and repairing their work machines is not what most people want to do when they are trying to run a business.

 

Thats because it is now clearly aimed at High End Video Editing.

People doing Gaming and Home Use hasn't been the Target Audience of the Mac Pro. It has however been adopted by people in that market space. However that doesn't make those users the target for the box. Lets face it the number of threads in the past about people wanting to buy a Mac Pro because the case styling is nice, but only want to load Windows and Games up on it.

Apple are clearly pushing the Mac Pro upwards with this new one, away from ProSumers and individual Pro Users and more towards Studio's etc where the absence of the built in drive bays isn't an issue as will be be stored centrally on the Big Enterprise SAN.

Either these people will

1.) Keep there existing Mac Pro's as they do the job
2.) Move to Maxxed out iMac's
3.) Go Hackintosh route
4.) Move off OSX and change Platforms.

Even Steve used to say that wasn't trying to target all users, they would concentrate on there target audience, and if that didn't suit you basically tough! You either fit the Apple model or you didn't. Home Users and Gamers do not fit the model, as Apple would target you with an iMac instead.

 

I was just about to post here about hackintoshes. After going though all of Apple's offerings I did not find a single one that meets what I want, even when I made cost was not a factor (well, within reason). This afternoon it hit me ... the ONLY solution for me was a hackintosh so I immediately googled them and am reading stuff on them now.

Way to go Tim. Except for two Amigas every computer I have bought since I got a paper route in the late 70s for an Apple ][ has been by your company. Even with 200 shares there (so buying an Apple device is in my own best interest) I have to put what I need over what you are offering. I am now toying with how to submit a vote of no confidence as a shareholder proposal ... if you can drive me away from your hardware you are NOT headed in the right direction.

Anyone remember when the next computers were always guaranteed to be better? Almost everything I looked at today I could see the next version was going to be worse for what I wanted.

 

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Theres not going to be an uptick..

 

i think there will be an surge in people wanted to hackintosh, followed by apple making it harder to hackintosh because the realize people don't like their new "workstation".

Then it will drop down to normal.

what i really expect to see is a shift from professionals who use to use OSX to using Windows.

 

Thanks for confirming I am in the hackintosh target market.

While my forte is software I am not blind to hardware. As long as I do not have to build up the hardware and only have to worry about following installer guides I do not see any issues. The old mac pro was a GREAT design. If they put updated stuff in it I would have been happy as I would prefer to have a real mac on my desk.

 

There are plenty of sexy cases out there, you just need to look. They won't look like MP's but thats not inherently a bad thing..

I kinda build theme hackintoshes, my HMMWV was good fun and quite fast. I'm going to give it a day or two and make a decision on whether to sell my MP and build again.

 

I was approached a couple times by a few of the larger systems companies who assemble Mac Pros in the past about Hacks. I refused to get involved.

I may have to give them a second look. We turned flaky "sorta works" GPUs into solid GPUs used by many post houses around the world. I don't have a factory to make new PCBs to conform to Apple's new design so.....

 

Problem is, if I change platform, I change everything and I'm not likely to be the only one.

The reason I have a MacBook Pro and an iPhone is because my main machine is a Mac Pro.

Windows main machine --> PC laptop --> do I then need an iPhone?

So in a flash I've gone from a full Apple setup to nothing Apple.

But unfortunately, I have to agree.

I just hope and pray there will be a sensible Mac Pro for people like me.

 

Why would you need to change everything though? Surely you can use a Windows workstation and a Mac portable and whatever phone you want. I have left my PC and Macs together in the same room and they did not eat each other.

 

This is one of those things that people and I think most especially Apple fail to realize. Once one link in the ecosystem is broken the whole thing is broken. MBP's get switched for razer blades/Think Pads/System 76 and iPhones get traded for HTC's/Samsung/Nexus..

 

A) Two sets of software to purchase. (Photoshop, InDesign)
B) Poor/non existent iCloud integration on windows.
C) Cost, I pay more to keep everything integrated, but there is a limit.
D) No iMessage on Windows, so might as well use Texts/Facebook.

All of my devices are very tightly nit together and it all 'just works'.

If I need to start using 3rd party software to do what I do now then why use Apple at all?

Although this is all moot if Apple release a sensible configuration option for people like me.

 

Fair enough. I can keep everything well segregated, but I understand your point now.

 

I would think pros would switch to Windows / PC workstation rather than depend on a hackintosh for job use critical computing (i.e. if your job / earnings depend on your computer).

 

7 Teraflops and 6x Thunderbolt 2 are not for home use and gaming.

 

Make sure to tell us what companies are using your babies if you go down that route.

 

With me the major pain would be that my spouse uses an iMac. One guess who provides tech support for it? I need a reference machine.

I am debating the idea of doing the migration in stages. First buy an iMac instead of the new MP since an iMac will do for now. Okay, before everyone jumps up and down read through the rest of my thinking. My ultimate goal will be to move to a linux box. I will then start to do 2 things ... examine my workflow closely (plus determine what linux equivalents I can use) and pick out the perfect linux machine. After buying the linux box the iMac can get re-purposed as a monitor via a dvi-to-displayport cable.

One possible variation is to pick up a linux laptop soonish. In addition to light stuff when I am on-the-road (no need to outfit it as a full desktop) I can use it to test out the things I would do to vary my workload.

So the ultimate goal would be to migrate from macs to linux. Unfortunately I have a feeling that some things will never be possible to migrate but I will find those out as I go along.