Hackintonshs are a hack. Not a workable machine. You waste time and money juggling them and never know if they are going to work from day to day.
And yet they are the ONLY option for a home user.
Please tell me what PCIe card you want to stick in it. 99% will work via thunderbolt - Yes I know that's not internal. But What do you want in there?
I'm not sure, but I know what cards I put in my PowerMac I used as my home server until late 2012. The point is that new stuff comes out (as those with 2011 Macs with Thunderbolt but without USB3 quickly found out) and no expansion means no product. Yes, you have Thunderbolt. Show me a Thunderbolt to USB3 hub that is actually for sale, let alone for a reasonable price. I mean have you even noticed that Thunderbolt products are RIDICULOUSLY expensive? Expect to pay 2-3x as much for the same hard drive running at the same speed with a Thunderbolt connector instead of USB3. Yes, the extreme high-end in drives are nice on Thunderbolt, but everything else works just fine on USB3 and costs a hell of a lot less.
And sorry you appear to have been on here since 2007. In what world do you think they would choose an external Case?!!?
WTF said anything about them actually doing that? I saying what they SHOULD do because they have exactly JACK SQUAT to offer for a high-end home user. And no iMacs aren't a good solution. They are garbage. They have become more and more of a PITA to upgrade ANYTHING in them and replacing an entire computer to get a better hard drive or stringing out tons of external CRAP on my desk isn't a great solution. I've got a perfectly nice spot for a tower under my desk where it takes up no additional desktop space. I guess Apple has never heard of a Tower since their new one is more like a trash can and doesn't really work for towers are meant to work (e.g. under desks designed for them and who really wants that horrible looking thing on TOP of their desk with a half dozen external boxes connected to it because it has no internal expansion?
Now I said I want a HOME box (i.e. the mythical XMac), but not a Pro box, but there's a whole thread on Pro machines and why this thing is a total STINKER for them too. Yeah, it's probably a wet dream for small facility people using Final Cut X, but from what I've read, most of the REAL Pros out there have a lot of existing equipment and this thing isn't designed to accommodate them at all. Apple might as well have sent them a letter telling them to move to Windows. And so sorry, but your total lack of argument to support this massively overpriced POS completely underwhelms me.
This is a Pro machine throughout and if you think it's too expensive then you either don't need it or don't realise that you should be paying if off in a few jobs... and writing it off via tax anyway.
Yeah, you didn't read my post at all. I was talking about Apple total lack of high-end home machines that a power home user could do everything from home video to gaming (with or without BootCamp) and how the ONLY viable option is a Hackintosh if you want to keep OSX since only a moron would buy this thing to game on when they could get something more powerful for 1/3 the price with a Hackintosh. So it's not supposed to be a home machine. No kidding. Where is their home machine? An iMac is not a feasible game machine either. As people have said for YEARS, Apple is ignoring entire market segments (and have dumped other ones like servers where they made very little real effort to compete). So I'm supposed to buy an entire second (Windows) computer just for gaming then when OSX offers BootCamp? There's a gold mine of an untapped market there and Apple continues to ignore it.
I've mentioned this a few times already but this thing has as much raw power as a supercomputer from only 10 years ago, would have been the 8th fastest machine on the planet in 2003 in fact.
So what? You can buy a Pro Windows machine too (with the missing expansion). The stupid worthless case is irrelevant to speed. If Apple wants to ignore both Pros and power home users they could at least license those particular market segments out to a 3rd party. Just tossing away a good chunk of the Pro market, dumping the Pro server market entirely and ignoring the Power home users who want to do everything from game to make their own music and videos all on one machine is pretty short sighted in my opinion and the ONLY argument I've EVER seen from people like you is that Apple is making "profit" and so they MUST be right. Yeah, their profits largely come from iOS these days and the Mac is getting less and less priority and so if Macs are your bag, you're going to end up disappointed sooner or later. Look how LONG it took them to bring this Mac Trashcan to market. It's obvious it hasn't been a priority in the slightest to them and this ugly design is straight from Johnny Blind Eyes Ives, the same guy who is trying to ruin the iPhone with the ugliest, buggiest iOS ever.
