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Back in time I installed OS X ( Mountain Lion ) on an i7 / 16GB desktop PC.

Was working quite nice, but missing some core functionality like iMessage / Cloud sync.

Biggest benefit of this was the >feeling< of freedom for upgrading and replacing hardware components.

That was long time ago and things got worse on Apple side for upgradeability.

I'm right now stuck with MBP 2011, because I don't want to spend fortune on top-class MBP with Max RAM and Max HDD ( If you can't upgrade, better take those anyway ).




This was my experience as well. I'm guessing the iCloud / app store integration stuff is even more screwed up now than it was when I built a Hackintosh. Not saying it didn't work, but I had to jump through a lot of hoops to get there.


iMessage is actually relatively easy to get working, I haven't had a problem with a Hackintosh I built 6 months ago. Still ended up moving to a MacBook Pro later on just not to worry about future updates breaking it.




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