{"id":16379,"date":"2014-05-13T06:15:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=16379"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:29:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:29:23","slug":"yeah-but-is-it-a-real-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/05\/13\/yeah-but-is-it-a-real-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, but is it a real Mac?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chewed-apple\"<\/a>I built my first Hackintosh<\/a> a little over a year ago, and I recently upgraded it to the latest operating system for Apple, but it’s always been bothering me whether it was a real<\/em> Mac. It is certainly speedy as far as surfing the internet, and it works excellently as a Plex<\/a> media server in conjunction with my Roku<\/a> players, but does the Hackintosh hold it’s own as far as a graphic design machine?<\/p>\n

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Like a lot of artists, I got involved with Apple computers back in the ’80s and Macintosh computers in the ’90s with some detours into Commodore<\/a> computers and Windows\/DOS PC<\/a> computers along the way. God help me, I may have sunk some serious cash into Amiga<\/em> <\/a>computers if their marketing department had ever responded to the Business Reply Card query I had dutifully sent to them.<\/p>\n

Anyway…<\/p>\n

If you wanted to get involved in desktop publishing, you had<\/em> to get a Mac. Nobody else was buying Macs during those dark times before Steve Jobs returned to the company he founded. Graphic designers were the only suckers<\/del> customers they had. They had me on their hook as did Adobe and QuarkXpress.
\n\"Ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently I was experimenting with installing Linux on discarded or trash-picked PCs<\/a>, and I’ve found that to be a very satisfying operating system as far as web browsing or playing music, and it has a wide selection of desktop publishing software some of which are very nice, but they feel like the generic product next to the real thing. If I took the time and threw myself at learning curves of various steepness, I’m sure I could complete a comic strip or produce a file for professional printing, but who has the time?<\/p>\n

So now I’m back to Mac with my burning Hackintosh obsession, but is it a real Mac?<\/em> Can I do graphic design on one? Can it be counted on? How could I tell?<\/p>\n

\"cs-splash\"<\/a>Adobe’s line of graphic design software has always been obnoxiously expensive, and their current subscription service is nothing short of insulting, but they have Photoshop, and I love Photoshop! I know it’s wrong, but I do. Running Photoshop on the Hack Mini would certainly give my machine the test I was looking for.<\/p>\n

\"Screen-Shot-2014-05-12-at-8.15.33-PM\"<\/a>As it turns out, there is a deal of sorts. For $50 a month, you can use everything that Adobe sells, but I’m not interested in that. For $10, you get to use what they call the Photographer’s Bundle which includes Photoshop and Lightroom. That doesn’t sound too bad, but I’m going cheaper still. For a month, I’m trying out Photoshop for free. If I can’t let it go after that, they may get the 10 clams a month out of me.<\/p>\n

…and how is it on the Hackintosh? I’ll let you know! Stay tuned!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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