New 'Mac Pro' $900!

[Wild-Bill]

How much time to research the whole process? How much time to research the parts required? How much time to decide which parts you want? How much time to buy each component? How much time to put it together? How much time to bootleg OS X and modify it to make it work? How much time to troubleshoot?

That is the most appealing part of it, for people doing it in the first place!! And if you're an experienced builder the troubleshooting part does not take long, if at all.

My hat's off to the O.P. Great job. Of course if he wanted to go full-tilt he could've gotten a Mac Pro case from somewhere, but that would've affected the final price.

 

[Eidorian]

You sure? According to this thread, its sounding like it might be a problem
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/416927/

*insert loud claps of Japanese thunder*

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[Mr.PS]

A true professional would never buy a Lamborghini automobile. They also wouldn't confuse the very different words "there" and their."

The real truth is that all of the bits and pieces in a "real" mac are the same that you can find anywhere else, with the exception of the cosmetic bits and pieces. To be honest, my mac pro is a box under my desk. It's sitting next to a super-ugly UPS, but I don't get on the APC fan forums and complain about how ugly the case is and how their power supply must be about to break because it isn't pretty.

I had a hard drive fail in one of the PCs I built, but I had salvaged that hard drive from my first PC, which was from the late 90s. It failed last year, so I guess that's 1 hardware failure every 10 years. I had ample warning that it was giving up, too (clicking, slowing down, whirling sounds). My only problems with self-built machines have been OS problems that exist in mass market machines as well. If I built a machine without the software issues, I'd have no issues at all.

What does being a professional in any field have to do with driving an exotic sports car? I fail to see your point? As for Mac's, sure the hardware is relatively the same, but it is still different then PC components, otherwise Mac hardware would not exist, it would just be "Hardware" and everyone could order a bare bones setup from Newegg and load up OSX and call it a day.

Also, what do your hardware problems and self built machines have to do with the fact that people keep comparing their scrub wanna be Mac's to professional line Mac machines aimed at professional photographers, video editors, and sound professionals?

Bottom line is it's not worth the hassle of building a faux Mac to run some hacked version of OSX to save $1,000 at the most. Reliability, updating, waiting for new hacks, and just general problems with things like thermal profiles, drivers for sound and video, mouse glitches, and hardware issues make it not worth while for anyone except the cheapsake Joe looking to play around with OSX for a few days. Besides, unless you're brutually cheap or living on welfare, man up and purchase the operating system you use daily at least. If everyone were pirating everything the software companies developing these great products wouldn't exist in the first place and you'd be stuck using inferior products from Microsoft. Someone serious that uses his or her computer for work will not bother. I installed OSX X86 this last week actually on my Dell laptop out of curiosity, OSX impressed me so I went ahead and ordered a Mac Pro and ACD. The stability issues and glitches don't mean anything as it was just a small test which lasted a few hours.

Being an anal-grammar-nazi and nit picking someone else's post doesn't give your view/opinion any more validity than his does buddy.

I agree, I obviously know the difference between there and their. It was a simple grammar mistake and you shouldn't use it to fuel your argument - usually those that tend to use grammar mistakes to fuel their arguments have very weak arguments to begin with...

 

[Vroom]

I agree, I obviously know the difference between there and their. It was a simple grammar mistake and you shouldn't use it to fuel your argument - usually those that tend to use grammar mistakes to fuel their arguments have very weak arguments to begin with...

You shouldn't end a sentence with a preposition. You should build a Hackintosh because they smell better.

 

[contoursvt]

I see, so it will only work as long as your video card was one that was available in an imac? So basically if you ordered a Mac Pro with the 8800GT, your SOL then or is there a workaround?

*insert loud claps of Japanese thunder*

 

[Eidorian]

I see, so it will only work as long as your video card was one that was available in an imac? So basically if you ordered a Mac Pro with the 8800GT, your SOL then or is there a workaround?

I know that users have tried to back port Leopard drivers to Tiger with no success for other hardware.

Someone is going to need to release drivers for the 8800GT in Tiger before you can run it there.

 

[gazfocus]

I built a hackintosh about 3 years ago and as long as you build it with similar hardware to that used by Apple, you'll have no problems. I will be turning my PC into a hackintosh soon...just to try Leapard

 

[benpatient]

not to dig up a dead thread, but i was just remembering this whole conversation from last week or so and thinking about how ironic it is that everyone was dogging this guy for building his own, and then all of these new Mac Pro's are shipping out with defective graphics cards, then getting replaced with more defective graphics cards...

might as well put a red ring of death on the front of the case for the next revision.