Why Buy a Mac Pro when you can Hackintosh?

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A question a lot of us tech enthusiasts have been asking since Apple announced their new “cheese grater” Mac Pro, and especially when we all scrolled through the configurator page to see how much it’d cost and saw the spit-take worthy pricing, is why on earth would anyone buy this £50,000 system when you can just build a hackintosh with more cores for a tenth of the price? 

Well the short answer is it’s not that simple. It entirely depends on who is buying it and their use case. See, the hack in hackintosh is very much purposeful. Not only is it technically breaking apple’s terms of service and they could, hypothetically, shut it down completely at a moment’s notice, it’s also a pretty involved process with a lot of painstaking issues that can take days to resolve. Especially if you want to run Threadrippers for those sweet sweet core counts, 3rd gen chips don’t even work right now, and even if they did or you go 2nd gen, you will still be plagued with issues from stuff like iMessage and the app store not working easily, to crashes and other system stability issues.

Most big companies who are buying these Mac Pros literally can’t afford to have a computer crash – big budget movie studios rendering VFX shots for the next Marvel movie, or game developers creating detailed models for the next AAA title, they don’t care that each system costs 5 or 10 times more than it might ought to, because they know it’s reliable, that it’s stable. When it’s a business expense they can just write off anyway, it doesn’t matter that much to them.

Of course, for the indie creator, like me for example, it might be worth giving hackintoshing a try first. Since you don’t necessarily have £50,000 lying around for a new PC – and yes I know the base model starts at £5500 – but my 32 core 2nd gen Threadripper system with 256GB RAM and 8TB of SSD space costs literally the same, instead of the 8 core, 32gb ram and FREAKING 256GB OF SSD SPACE IN THE BASE MODEL Apple offers – but anyway if you don’t have that kind of cash around, you might be able to get away with hackintoshing instead. If you need Apple exclusive apps like Final Cut or Logic Pro, this could be a great way to get a much faster machine for very little money. 

Setting up a hackintosh can be a pretty involved process, and because of the many issues with stability, if you are considering it, it might be worth trying on an existing machine you have, or building a really cheap version (if you went with Ryzen you could buy one of the cheaper 4 or 6 core CPUs, 8GB of RAM and a used RX 470) then if it works for you, upgrade it later. What I wouldn’t do is buy a full high end system without ever hackintoshing first, knowing that you will require a high powered system for your work very soon. 

Of course, all of this relies on the idea you need Apple exclusive apps, I personally use Premiere Pro for most of my editing, with after effects for all the tracking, lower thirds and other effects I use, and media encoder to render it all out, so for me I am more than happy with my Windows powered machine, and even if you’d rather steer clear of Windows, there are some great apps available on Linux too – although that’s an even more involved process so maybe not.

There are big movie studios using Windows with Threadrippers – Blur studios the makers of Terminator Dark Fate are a great example, since they use a lot of tools that are cross platform. I think I saw Blender in their AMD video, for example. So there is also the argument to be made that because of this insane pricing difference Apple is charging, it might actually be worth migrating off the Apple ecosystem and onto more open source and cross-platform tools, where possible. I know that a lot of industries rely quite heavily on Apple software – I think music production is one of them, and so for them it’s not a perfect solution, but for some it could be worth it.