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BillN_33

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Would be very grateful for some advice

Does anyone use a Hakintosh?

is the following spec good for CS6 and LR editing with large 85MP Tiff files?

I need to "beef up" my system

what monitors are good? - I would like to get a couple for say £250 to £300 each

I have a 2009 IMac and MBP at the moment and workflow is slowing down
 
What spec is your iMac. 2009 was the year Apple introduced the quad core i5 processor. My iMac is a late 2009 ( with quad core) and it handles 65Mb files OK. OK Lightroom can be a bit slow with output, but nothing to write home about. No problems with Photoshop for normal normal operations.
 
Chappers said:
What spec is your iMac. 2009 was the year Apple introduced the quad core i5 processor. My iMac is a late 2009 ( with quad core) and it handles 65Mb files OK. OK Lightroom can be a bit slow with output, but nothing to write home about. No problems with Photoshop for normal normal operations.
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Thanks John

my spec is

2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo
8GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Early 2009

I think 8GB is the biggest you install in this model

try a 400MB 5 image stitch this afternoon and it took for ever
 
My iMac has the quad core i5, much faster machine , even though only being 2.66GHz as yours. I can imagine that size of stitch taking a time. Only problem I can see with a Hackintosh ( apart from software licensing issues ) is that you may not have all the drivers available for the machine.
 
I have a Hackintosh, Sabertooth X79 MB, i7-3930K processor (6 core) and 32GB RAM

It will take anything Photoshop wants to throw at it, although 32GB is overkill for PS, 16GB is sufficient.

No problems with drivers etc, the only problem I've had is getting the graphics card to run optimally, Hackintoshes are a bit picky when it comes to graphics card.

The only other common issue is iMessage rarely works on a Hackintosh.

I have my machine as dual boot, and it runs just as efficiently under Yosemite as Win7 (once I'd sorted the Graphics Card out)
 
Does osx and win need separate drives to start ? As each uses different MBR ?
Am planning on doing hackintosh of my PC. And once I get new ssd for it, will try...just need some research on how to do dual boot...
And finally, will osx read from NTFS drives ? Can it write to them ??
 
bastic said:
Does osx and win need separate drives to start ? As each uses different MBR ?
Am planning on doing hackintosh of my PC. And once I get new ssd for it, will try...just need some research on how to do dual boot...
And finally, will osx read from NTFS drives ? Can it write to them ??
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You can put both OS on one drive, but it's a bit fiddly, far easier to install on separate drives, although you can run windows from within OSX using VMWare or Parallels Desktop for Mac.

On my Hack I have Yosemite on 1 SSD and Win10 (Beta) on a 2nd SSD, on my Macbook Pro, I run Yosemite, with Win 7 within OSX via VMWare.
 
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