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0 pointscschneid12y ago0 comments

So "sorta, not really" is the answer. It's a potential hackintosh, with all the associated hassles that come along. (updates break your hackintosh? Hope you didn't want to get work done today).

And it's in an ugly case.

With less useful hardware (Xeon vs i7, memory quality).

It's going to not have workstation level build quality. For instance, my older mac pro has literally 1 cable run inside the case (power to the gfx card). Everything else is slotted in, and done on board. No self-built system I have is built that well.

I doubt I can get applecare on this system. So when things go wrong, I have 15ish different supplies to go through RMAs with (for better or worse).

Basically this "article" makes zero sense. It's just a link to a bunch of parts. Is it just advertising / affiliate?

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aroch12y ago

I was just answering if it would run OSX...I by no means think it's on par with the new Mac Pro specs or build quality wise

> So "sorta, not really" is the answer. It's a potential hackintosh, with all the associated hassles that come along. (updates break your hackintosh? Hope you didn't want to get work done today).

Well..no, not really. Builds with recent Intel CPUs are pretty stable, even across upgrades. One of my hackintoshes (which was built because it took Apple Too Damn Long(TM) to update the MacPro line) has made the jump from Lion > ML > Mavericks with little to no issue. The biggest problem when upgrading was on the windows side going XP-x64 > Win7 when Win7 wouldn't install and then I realized that SSD wasn't in slot 1 during the install. The only issue I've had with my OSX disk was Win8 corrupting it's volume headers (which are easy enough to repair in 5mins)

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