morid1n

1. I’d wait for the new keyboards first. The Airs and 13-inch Pros still have the faulty ones.

2. I’d get a low-spec MBP13 or MBP14, whatever comes out next.

I paid around 1600 USD for everything. Counting the parts I reused from my old hackintosh, around 2000. A similarly specced Mac Pro 8-core is around 7200 USD.

I had 5 or 6 screen replacements on mine. Most of my friends had this issue too.

Not really. The biggest point of failure will be the drives and they’re universal. The only truly Mac-specific part is the motherboard and there’s plenty to choose from.

There is no Mac that supports my needs, used or new.

Try a couple of thousand dollars. My build is 1K cheaper than a similarly specced Mini without an eGPU. A comparable Mac Pro (yes, Xeons and ECC) is 7.2K USD.

That just means your config wasn’t properly made to support your hardware. Mine was rock solid for 6 years.

Not true. I’ve had my 2014 hackintosh updated regularly without issues.

Screenshot shows 3 GBps for both read and write under Windows. Windows has 3.5/3.3.

See one my of other comments please.

Dual boot. Two SSDSs.

You don’t need to. If anything fails you just install a new part 1 hour later instead of waiting a week for Apple’s support to sort it out.

And you can build everything on Windows or Linux. Mac not needed (though I still prefer it).

I have had my previous hackintosh since 2014 and only once was there an issue. It all depends how good your boot loader config was. If it was configured properly, it was rock solid.

Older version of Geekbench.