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Just saying, I’ve been there myself. It’s a time suck to track down things that randomly stop working and it’s hard to get any kind of help from people when they know you’re going rogue on unsupported machines.

Same goes for all my friends who were on Hackintosh’s and custom builds. Literally every single one of them is just on a newer Mac now, the amount of fudging around just becomes too annoying and sucks too much time.

If someone can afford to spend money on full suite of plugins, then a new computer isn’t going to be the end of the world. Plenty of very good monitors and hard drives going cheap these days too, spending $100 here and there for shit that actually works as intended is a no brainer (vs buying more plugins just to delay the inevitable).
Yeah part of why I stopped using Hackintosh was that it was a chore to maintain across operating system versions. When it worked, it was just as good if not better than Intel Macs of the time thanks to desktop level performance without paying through the nose for server grade stuff of the Mac Pro.

Now that there's more viable desktop Mac options there's not as much reason to run Hackintosh. Macs running M2 and up don't have that many drawbacks. M1's lack of HDMI 2.1 severely limits external display support.
 
When was that?
It was on an older Mac Pro. Even if it’s easier now, I still standby the fact that it’s absolutely not worth it. M4 Mini is too cheap to put up with any BS, which will come up as soon as you actually try and do the actual things you intend to do with a computer. No one wants their rig to act goofy and to not have support for the things you’ve spent money on.

I agree on not wanting to spend money on a computer too regularly, but since using Mac’s I’ve averaged 10 years per computer, which is acceptable. Drew is well past getting his moneys worth on his old machine, and mini’s are an enormous upgrade/value for money.

Tinkering and experimenting is fine on a 2nd rig but I wouldn’t want my main computer to be running like that. It’s just asking for trouble.
 
M4 Mini is too cheap to put up with any BS

As said, you will have to spend some additional money. You will as well have to basically set it up from scratch as quite some things won't be covered by the migration assistent. And you'll likely end up with some projects not loading as they were anymore, too (obviously depending on which plugins you've used).

Again, I'm not advocating to not buy a new machine, but it's possibly not as painfree and inexpensive as one would wish.
Going with OLP otoh costs you an hour or two of investigation, a night of creating a backup imaged install, and then the time updating needs. Really not much to lose.

Tinkering and experimenting is fine on a 2nd rig but I wouldn’t want my main computer to be running like that. It’s just asking for trouble.

With Intel machines, an external drive gives you that very second machine once you've done a bootable image.

Yeah part of why I stopped using Hackintosh was that it was a chore to maintain across operating system versions.

There's a whole world of a difference between using the OLP and building and maintaining a Hackintosh. The most crucial one possibly being that on Intel Macs you can always return to the last supported OS install without any issues. And you obviously don't have to look for any hardware to start with.

Obviously, all that will look very, very different once Apple stops supporting any Intel machines. Tahoe (due this fall) will be the last version to support Intel Macs, you can then add another 3 years of security updates and that was it.
OLP might still continue to exist, though, but it'll likely be quite different (and possibly more difficult). Right now, OLP isn't needed for any M-Macs, so we don't know what'll happen...
 
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