I've never built a hackintosh, I wouldn't know. However from my friend's
experience with stability issues with his, and the lack of time I have
right now to troubleshoot any problems mid-project, I'd say it was worth
it. And as others have mentioned they seem to have a higher resale
value, with good build quality. Also I know miniTX cases are small, but
the mac mini is still about half the size, of the smallest miniTX, and
it has an integrated psu brick (which I have never seen on a miniATX). I
can literally throw it in a briefcase to bring to a client meeting for a
supervised fx session.
Anyway, I decided to geekbench all my
computers, with some interesting results. Now these were just the 32x
benchmarks so the core i7 3930 should outpace the rest by even more in a
64x bench, but this was an enlightening comparison. I did not, for
example expect the mini to beat out my full tower core i7 940, which is
overclocked to 3.6 gHz. It also means two mac minis could possibly be
faster than my whole hex core pc.
| Intel Core i7-3930K |
3200 |
6 |
Windows |
x86 |
32: |
17514 |
| MAC MINI Intel Core i7-3615QM |
2300 |
4 |
Mac OS X |
x86 |
32: |
10982 |
| Intel Core i7-940 |
3580 |
4 |
Windows |
x86 |
32: |
9252
|
| MBP 2010 Intel Core i7-620M |
2660 |
2 |
Mac OS X |
x86 |
32: |
5421 |
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Stephen van Vuuren
<stephen@sv2studios.com> wrote:
>$899.99 shipped two-day, with a thunderbolt -> DVI connector thrown in. Additionally, it took me almost 6 hours to get windows 7 installed
That’s about the same amount of labor to get a miniITX system dual booting via Hackintosh. But the miniITX for that money would have had considerably more CPU and GPU power. Do you think having an official Mini as opposed to a Hackintosh is worth it?
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