Comment by jasoneckert
3 months ago
While I never jumped on the Hackintosh bandwagon, I had many friends who did for almost a decade. They built systems that ran macOS for considerably less when it came to the price/performance ratio.
Nowadays, those same friends are all using Mac Studios because the price/performance ratio for running macOS is better. I believe this is one of the major factors to why the Hackintosh community is dying today (not just changes to drivers and the macOS codebase as the author suggests).
I don’t get the point about the price/performance ratio being better. Mac Studio are really expensive compared to a powerful PC
Running macOS on Apple Silicon is very fast compared to running it Intel. This is due to the RISC architecture and tight integration of the components in the SoC. To run it as fast on Intel would cost more than the price of a Mac Studio.
Can you point to any source supporting that point? All the benchmarks I’ve seen say the opposite, a Mac Studio wins on power consumption but is way more expensive compared to PC parts