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Just bite the bullet and hackintosh. It's ridiculously easy. I put one together in an afternoon with parts I had lying around. It even had GPU acceleration for all those silly UI animations to run smoothly. There are lists of hardware that are guaranteed to work. I'm not a Mac guy so I scrapped the system, but as a bored weekend project it was fun.

I had no issues installing updates, networking was fine etc.

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It's not really an option in enterprise environment though. If you run a company and have to use Macs, then none of the options available at the moment give you access to lots of power and/or expandability.

Just built my second one because of their BS. Cost about $1100 for a computer that Apple would charge at least $5000 for. I've inspired friends as well because the process has become fairly easy nowadays.

I tried this a year or so ago, my only stumbling block was getting iMessage/iCloud working properly, which was very difficult, has that improved?

It's improved in that the causes of failure are now better understood. Getting it working means generating some UUIDs and things. e.g. https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/an-idiots-guide-to-imessa...

No idea sorry. I put the system together to tinker with some iOS dev, but lost interest after a few months. I don't use any of the rest of the Mac ecosystem, so not sure how that functions.

What's special about iMessage/iCloud which poses an issue on a hackintosh?

Messages, Facetime and iCloud work for me on Sierra on my new hackintosh without any fiddling. On my previous Hackintosh, which I believe is running Mavericks, those services don't work.

I ran into this too. As far as I know, nope, it has not improved.

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