What's Wrong With His Hackintosh

Yeah...and Apple just added a camera to the iPhone and iPod Nano...that's right...a camera. :grin:
 
Mattykins said:
Though that is the inherent problem. You are making a system do what it technically shouldn't do. You are forcing it to be something it's not.

There could be thousands of things gone funky. Bad install on the OS. Bad install on FCP. Bad drivers. Wrong drivers. Conflicting drivers.

I have a hackintosh MSI Wind netbook. I love it. It took three days to work out all [read: most] of the kinks. It still doesn't have 100% functionality. It's minor things, but it still has issues.

For instance, the sleep wouldn't work for weeks, then I researched, found a sound driver, installed it, and suddenly sleep worked. For no apparent reason. Hackintoshes are a touchy beast. Sure, it might work, but when something goes wrong, it could be any number of things.

So while he didn't give a firm answer (you can't by the way), he is right.
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And I think for many people doing film work 3 days of work to get a Hackintosh working correctly is worth a whole lot more than the extra money for a mac. Not saying you might be literally depriving yourself of work in that time but your time is still worth something...doing it on your off-time means you don't have that off-time, the value of which is in many ways proportional to the value of your on-time. I
 
Ben_B said:
And I think for many people doing film work 3 days of work to get a Hackintosh working correctly is worth a whole lot more than the extra money for a mac. Not saying you might be literally depriving yourself of work in that time but your time is still worth something...doing it on your off-time means you don't have that off-time, the value of which is in many ways proportional to the value of your on-time. I
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I have a MBP 17 inch. Which isn't really a laptop. It's more of a desktop in laptop form. I needed / wanted a small laptop for notes, writing, web surfing, etc. When netbooks came out, they were 10 inches. About the size of a book.

The problem? None of them are mac based. I can't work a PC anymore. I don't like them. And some of the software I use for organizing thoughts is Mac based. Thus, I needed a mac to continue my workflow seamlessly. I then purchased the MSI Wind and converted it over. It took longer than I thought, but it was necessary.

I didn't starve myself of work, in fact I currently held a full time job. And I wasn't working on any film related projects at the time. It was worth it for me.

You know, work isn't everything. Taking several hours out of your day to work on something you want to do isn't necessarily a sin or a waste of time and value of life.

It's the same as going to the movies, having sex, eating, playing the guitar, or an infinite number of activities. If you want to work all day and sleep and repeat the cycle because that will give you the most worth on your "off-time" go right ahead. I will do things that interest me, that might waste time or spend time creating something that can't be purchased. But that would then deprive me of my "off-time", but then again, doesn't any activity aside from work deprive you of off-time?
 
No I hear ya, for doing a netbook that makes sense to me.

I was mainly addressing it at people who are building high end desktop systems or complaining Apple's high-end laptops are too expensive.
 
Oh, all right.

I had no idea where your argument was going in relation to time v worth in this circumstance.
 
Ben_B said:
To the OP, did any of these above suggestions solve your problems?
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We tried a few suggestions, and I think we are just going to have to fiddle with FCP settings to get it to work. I want to thank everyone who has made suggestions!

Matt
 
Car3o said:
I'm not going to go shopping for you, but alienware, acer and msi would easily pull that off. but really it's not about which computer is better. it's about they are 100% equal in specs and how one is considerably cheaper.
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I was having this debate with a coworker about a year ago. To settle it we took the mid level 15" MacBook Pro and matched it spec for spec with a build your own dell. The end result, the dell was about $400 dollars cheaper. Add in the price of Vista premium and that gap shrinks to about $200.

I'd venture to guess that the any build you get from Alienware, etc. would be similarly comparable. Building your own machine is another story and definitely way cheaper. But then that turns the debate into a build vs buy one rather than mac vs pc.

Car3o said:
quick point, it was a 3 team development. apple had just as much to do with building the processors as Ibm and motorola. now, they don't have anything.
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I think what's important though is the hardware in every apple computer is controlled so any of the inevitable idiosyncrasies of a given piece of hardware can be sorted out and patched by developers. This challenge is far greater in the windows (and don't get me started on the FOSS Linux) world. So yeah, you lose options when you buy into a vendor that only runs on specific hardware. But then you also lose options when you run windows server instead of redhat.

FWIW, I'm a believer in the holy trinity, Mac, Dows, Linux each have their place in this world.\

There's an old addage "Linux is only free if your time is worthless" and Hackintoshes, are at their core, just another flavor of Linux.
 
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