These articles are great starting points for researching your own Hackintosh.

Why you should build a Hackintosh There are many reasons to build your own Hackintosh.

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From a pint-sized portable to a full-size mega tower, onboard video or high-end video card, hard drive type, number, and capacity, speed and amount of RAM, etc.

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In Kirks case, he spent 464 to build a Mac that outperforms Apples 999 mini.

In my case, its a tougher comparison, as the iMac includes a 5K display.

But if you add the LG 5K display (1,300) to my build cost (1,567), that 2,867 total is still about 500 less than a loaded top-of-the-line 5K iMac.

And my machine will run circles around that Macs gaming performance, and match or exceed it in CPU performance.

If you arent sure you want to spend over 500 on a high-end video card, buy a decent card for 100 and see how it works for you.

There are tons of guides out there, though, and its not overly complicated.

Every time Apple updates the OS, theres a chance your Hackintosh may not survive the update process.

Before updating, time is required to research the web and see how the process has gone for other users.

If thats not something youre willing to do, you probably shouldnt build your own Mac.

As described in our articles, both Kirk and I required multiple installations to get our machines running.

In between those reinstalls was lots of internet research, taking lots of timeId estimate I spent about 30 hours on the project in total.

And in the end, you still may not wind up with a fully usable machine, depending on your objectives.

Go off the list, and youre experimenting with your money and time.

You dont want to reach step seven only to discover you need something you dont yet have.

Then start adding in support for video cards, audio, network, etc.one at a time.

I say yes if you enjoy tinkering with hardware and Terminal, and like building things.

I also say yes if youre not intending to make your Hackintosh your main Mac, so it doesnt need all the bells and whistles working (like Kirks machine, not mine).

And quite honestly, I think this is why Apple has left this market segment alone.

Theres no fear here of hobbyists disrupting Apples business model with their homebuilt Macs.

If anything, this may lead more users to purchase an actual Mac, as hobbyists tire of machines that break with updates, and where not everything works as it should.

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