This. If you are able to create a custom DSDT.aml you'll never have to sweat updates and, in some instances, never have to use any Kexts at all.

100% false. Maybe you had a bad experience with your particular hackintosh, but I've been updating since 10.6.0 and taxing my hardware to its limit without a single KP for 2 years. This on an OEM Dell XPS 420 in no way ever destined to run OS X.

Everything you can do with a Macintosh, you can do with a hackintosh. As far as the software's concerned, you're using a real-live blessed-by-the-lords-of-Apple Mac. I cannot stress this enough.

The point being not to save money, but to get much more PC for approximately the same cost.

I recommend Mac Mini's all the time. Especially to people on threads like this who don't know what RAM is. If you're comfortable with the innards of your PC though, it's hard to beat the power to price performance of a hackintosh.

GPUs are cheap, and you can surely find a cheaper, fully supported one with Google. If you still can't afford one though, on your head it be.

Brands shouldn't make too much of a difference. GPUs in general are pretty flexible.

A working hackintosh, software wise, is exactly the same as any Macintosh. Everything you can do on a Mac you can do with a hackintosh. Everything.

The point of this guide is to provide a list of rock-solid OS X-capable components. If you can get another CPU to work, good on ya! It shouldn't effect this guide much, but success is not guaranteed.

While you can partition a hard drive and have Windows/OS X on a single hard drive, all of the troubles this will cause makes it not worth it. Both OS X and Windows create more than one partition when you install, which contains the bootloader, among other things. This is really ugly for both OS's, and neither likes to…

This guide is written for custom built PCs with the exact same components listed at the beginning, not a universal guide for any PC.

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I just like saying Principal Albert T. Wang out loud.

I read this entire article picturing a full-size animatronic robot. Then I watched the video. I am sad.

Honestly, if you were able to open FCP7 projects the reviews wouldn't be nearly this bad. This way they have no frame of reference to the new paradigms, and you'll never find anyone as stubborn, inflexible, and uncomfortable towards change as a professional video editor.

Not bad, just different, and lacking tons of professional features (tape support, ability to open FCP7 files, etc).

I actually use Hazel for app cleaning. It's a rule-based automatic file organizer, which happens to have an app cleaner as well.

Repair permissions with Disk Utility. Use OnyX for other things.

Although Macs don't require as much maintenance as PCs, theres still some good habits you should get into.