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🗓️ 2 June 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Is the power of a Hackintosh worth the hassle of building and maintaining one? Big daddy Erf gets the answers with YouTube creator and Hacktintosh expert Peter Paul Chato.
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0:00.0 | How are you liking your hackatosh? You've had it for what two years now? |
0:05.0 | So coming up to March will be three years for this one. |
0:08.0 | Wow, three years. And this is your main machine. |
0:11.0 | And what's it like? Are you having issues? Does it stop working? Can you use the third part or the |
0:16.8 | the built-in Apple services and all that stuff? Like how's all that work? |
0:19.7 | Everything, everything works. You have no problems at all. Everything works. So I've got Wi-Fi, I mean I've got hand-off. I've got you know I come downstairs my my |
0:31.0 | Apple watch on automatically unlocks the computer. |
0:34.0 | So wow, every little thing. |
0:35.8 | Everything works. |
0:36.8 | So I mean, again, it's been a learning process. |
0:39.4 | The biggest problem over the years was just being certain that I had the full performance of all |
0:49.8 | the USB ports and it's only been fairly recently that I learned about manually setting |
0:57.3 | USB port assignments. And it's kind of complicated but fun. It was really, really neat to do. |
1:03.2 | And I did it the most complicated way. |
1:05.1 | Now, apparently there's a slightly easier way, |
1:07.7 | but I just haven't had time to dive into it. |
1:10.2 | So now with every single I-Mac I have in the house I've manually |
1:15.1 | assigned the USB port assignments and then learned about i.O. Reg software it's fun |
1:22.0 | I mean that was just a it's and that points to the fact that I've always told people that if you're a you know if you want to be a hackantosh |
1:30.6 | owner or user builder it's not for the faint of heart. |
1:34.3 | I mean, it's not that hard, but on the other hand, |
1:39.8 | you know, there are people who have no idea how to run or manage just a regular Mac. |
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