Hello all,
So, I am planning on buying a new laptop. I have a couple of choices of possible Hackintoshes:
Choice 1 :
Acer Predator Helios 500 AMD
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700 processor Octa-core 3.20 GHz
- 17.3" Full HD (1920 x 1080) 16:9 IPS
- Radeon RX Vega 56 (8GB HBM2)
- 16 GB, DDR4 SDRAM
- 256 GB SSD 144 screen No thunderbolt 3
1900 usd
Alienware area 51m
- 9th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-9700 8 core
- Windows 10 Home 64bit English
- NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2060 6GB GDDR6 (OC Ready)
- 16GB, 2x8GB, DDR4, 2400MHz
- 1TB (+8GB SSHD) Hybrid Drive 144 screen
2000 usd
Razer blade 15
9th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-9750H 6 Core (2.6GHz/4.5GHz) Graphics NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2060 (6GB GDDR6 VRAM) Display 15.6" Full HD 144Hz, 100% sRGB, 4.9mm bezel, factory calibrated Storage 512GB SSD (NVMe) + empty 2.5" (SATA, 7mm max. thickness) Memory 16GB Dual-Channel (8GB x 2) DDR4 2667MHz USB & Thunderbolt 3 USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB-A) x3, Thunderbolt™ 3 (USB-C) Wireless Intel® Wireless-AC 9560 (802.11a/b/g/n/ac), Bluetooth® 5
2000 usd
And the failsafe :
Macbook pro
- 1.7GHz quad‑core 8th‑generation Intel Core i7 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz
- 8GB 2133MHz LPDDR3 memory
- 256GB SSD storage
- Retina display with True Tone
- Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645
- Two Thunderbolt 3 ports
- Touch Bar and Touch ID
- Backlit Keyboard - US English
Needs :
256 SSD 77 USD Enclosure razer core x 300 usd AMD Radeon RX 5700 329 usd 16 GB RAM
The Acer Predator Helios 500 in my mind would be a great candidate for running Mojave and possibly Catalina, as per the AMD GPU. The Alienware and Razer are potential choices merely on the upgradeability via Thunderbolt 3, but I am not certain if they still have the Intel Graphics chip inside, where I can turn the discreet GPU off from bios. The failsafe option is the Macbook pro, but considering the price of a quad core i7 on top of the needed upgrades to make it a gaming system, it would be rough. If I buy one of the potential hackintoshes, I can see how they would be powerful enough to run OSX via a virtual machine in Linux. What do you guys think?
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