First of all, I must state that I am not an evangelist of any direction you might go for your own work. I just want to share my experience as an artist and a user ( friendly ? ).
I have been a loyal customer to Apple's products since 1989. Yeah ! Such a long time. I enjoyed the classic Mac, with it's Black and White thumbnail screen. I had LC II, III, 475... Centric, Quadra... ( ring a Bell ? ), The famous 660AV with in/out video plugs !!! I bought, the beige, the bondy blue, the silver, and the latest Mac Pro Mid 2010 !!!
As you know, lately I shot an independent movie called "the Eye of Silence". This film workflow required the latest connections to support 2.5k Blackmagic Raw files. The aging firewire 800 plugs were simply too slow to support that. I invested into a Drobo 5D Thunderbolt tower that would hold up 15Tb of Hard drives. 5x3tb from Seagate. My Mac Pro with old graphic card and USB 2 ports ( even with an orico USB3 card ) was not up to the task to keep the pace. And must I add, that USB3 is not a Pro connection. Apple announced then a New Mac Pro. But I was facing two major issues.
1 - It is not available yet.
2 - It will be super expensive.
3 - I will have to buy extra chassis for PCie cards
Ok it makes three issues !
So what to do ? Definitely not switch to the PC world. (I am a convinced FinalCut Pro X user and a Mac OS geek). And surely not buy an iMac which does not allow me to install multiple cards. ( like the Blackmagic Decklink mini ).
I have been a loyal customer to Apple's products since 1989. Yeah ! Such a long time. I enjoyed the classic Mac, with it's Black and White thumbnail screen. I had LC II, III, 475... Centric, Quadra... ( ring a Bell ? ), The famous 660AV with in/out video plugs !!! I bought, the beige, the bondy blue, the silver, and the latest Mac Pro Mid 2010 !!!
As you know, lately I shot an independent movie called "the Eye of Silence". This film workflow required the latest connections to support 2.5k Blackmagic Raw files. The aging firewire 800 plugs were simply too slow to support that. I invested into a Drobo 5D Thunderbolt tower that would hold up 15Tb of Hard drives. 5x3tb from Seagate. My Mac Pro with old graphic card and USB 2 ports ( even with an orico USB3 card ) was not up to the task to keep the pace. And must I add, that USB3 is not a Pro connection. Apple announced then a New Mac Pro. But I was facing two major issues.
1 - It is not available yet.
2 - It will be super expensive.
3 - I will have to buy extra chassis for PCie cards
Ok it makes three issues !
So what to do ? Definitely not switch to the PC world. (I am a convinced FinalCut Pro X user and a Mac OS geek). And surely not buy an iMac which does not allow me to install multiple cards. ( like the Blackmagic Decklink mini ).
The Mac Pro looks like a Star Wars device... With a George Lucas income !
The "Other" solution came out this summer. My Editor JB, built a custom made "Hackintosh". What the hell was that ? It looks like a PC. You buy spare parts like a PC. You get used to the world of multiple brands : Arctic, Gygabite, Corsair... And discover that you actually buy "Play-dough" to lower the temperature of your brand new i7 CPU.
With the help of geeky websites like tonymacX86, this unattractive PC becomes a real Apple product rip off. And a damn good one !
So here I was fetching on Amazon for the best Hackintosh I could build.
for less than 1500 €, I could make a 32Gb Ram, 256GB SSD, Dual thunderbolt, GTX680, USB3, 3.5 Ghz (overclocked to 4.5 ) i7 3770k HackMac. GeekBench rates it between an iMac and a Mac Pro. ( overall it feels faster. )
Of course it takes more than 48 hours to find the right settings. There 's a few glitches during this building phase (multibeast). But then again, While you passed the fear of making it, this machine, with no taste and refined input like a genuine Mac, works seamlessly.
I have now a reliable product that allows me to Post product my movie in very decent conditions. Because at the end of the day, you buy the tool that gets the job done !
With the help of geeky websites like tonymacX86, this unattractive PC becomes a real Apple product rip off. And a damn good one !
So here I was fetching on Amazon for the best Hackintosh I could build.
for less than 1500 €, I could make a 32Gb Ram, 256GB SSD, Dual thunderbolt, GTX680, USB3, 3.5 Ghz (overclocked to 4.5 ) i7 3770k HackMac. GeekBench rates it between an iMac and a Mac Pro. ( overall it feels faster. )
Of course it takes more than 48 hours to find the right settings. There 's a few glitches during this building phase (multibeast). But then again, While you passed the fear of making it, this machine, with no taste and refined input like a genuine Mac, works seamlessly.
I have now a reliable product that allows me to Post product my movie in very decent conditions. Because at the end of the day, you buy the tool that gets the job done !
"Here's to the crazy ones, the rebels, the misfits". This Hackintosh has Jobs blood in it !
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