If you did it right it was like having a Mac except you had better specs and it was more customisable while costing much less to build.

For others it was just about the money. If you needed to run Mac software e.g. Xcode but didn't want to have to buy a Mac for that reason alone it was much cheaper to do a bit of tinkering to get OSX working on the hardware they already had.

When I first build my Hackintosh it took less effort than installing Linux on some of the other computers I had.

I wanted a Mac that they wouldn't sell me. That's why.

Because I was broke

I got my current job thanks to having one. I probably wouldn't have a tech career without hackintoshes being a thing.

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