Dan1010011 Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 I have 2 hackintosh projects for this year and would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions from anyone. Project #2 is, I think easier, to build a compact home theater hackintosh. Currently I use an older Apple tv and just have it look to my imac through home sharing. There are no time constraints or deadlines for this project. Project #1 is buy a laptop and turn it into a dual boot system, win10 and macos. Windows will only be used for a bit of gaming, everything else i do on the mac. Web surfing, itunes, AV editing, and maybe I can get back into coding. Discrete graphics is a must I think, and it would be great if it works under macos. But because of the optimus graphics switching, does that rule out nvidia? I have not found anyone with a working 10xx series nvidia in a laptop under macos. Would it be better to go with one that has an amd graphics chipset? Hp has one of their omen laptops with an i7 7700hq and an amd radeon rx580, which is very similar to the imac system. Has anyone tried hackintoshing a similar system? This project is important to me first because of the challenge and second because i am scheduled to go to training twice this year and the last time i was sent i was bored off my butt. The first training this year is in march, so i would like to get this going soon, so as to get a stable system before i have to go. Any thoughts? Edit: Ok so with a bit more research and some luck it looks like there are people with nvidia 10xx series graphics chips working in laptops. Although there are some problems with high sierra, sierra seems ok maybe. Thank you! :^) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigamaxx Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Gigabyte makes a Brix that is or was on sale at amazon for $250 that has Intel Irirs graphics and i7 that would only need ram, SSD and a wifi/bluetooth m.2 replacement to work like a Mac mini on steroids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan1010011 Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Those brix look pretty cool and would simplify the build. I had been looking at mini itx cases like the cool master 130 and similar, and just piecing a system together. Amazon currently has the GB-BKi7HT2-7500 for $510. The brix are neat and I think I might go with that, if just to simplify. If I build it from case up, I will end up over building. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigamaxx Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Those brix look pretty cool and would simplify the build. I had been looking at mini itx cases like the cool master 130 and similar, and just piecing a system together. Amazon currently has the GB-BKi7HT2-7500 for $510. The brix are neat and I think I might go with that, if just to simplify. If I build it from case up, I will end up over building. Thanks! If you go with Mini ITX as long as it has a wifi PCIE slot then you can use the PCIE x 16 slot for a small graphics card like a RX 560 or Nvidia gtx 1050ti for increased graphics performance. That is if you want more than just a TV box in a small package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan1010011 Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 If you go with Mini ITX as long as it has a wifi PCIE slot then you can use the PCIE x 16 slot for a small graphics card like a RX 560 or Nvidia gtx 1050ti for increased graphics performance. That is if you want more than just a TV box in a small package. That is an option. I really do like the coolmaster elite 130. It even has a provision for an external 5.25" drive so a blueray drive could be added. Currently I use my playstation3 for bluerays. Aside from that I really do like the option of discrete gfx. I wonder.... I saw Hain's post and think it's a very interesting build, though I was thinking a 200 series motherboard. Maybe the asrock z270 gaming-itx/ac. It looks compatible. Not to distract us from this conversation Giga, do you have any thoughts on project #1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamika31 Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 I think it's worth trying with apple TV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan1010011 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 I think it's worth trying with apple TV I don’t understand. What is worth trying? On another note, for project #1, I am going to get the hp omen x. I’ve looked at asus, msi, dell, alienware (still dell, I know), and hp. I like the specs / features of the hp most. Not the omen with the ati rx580 that I mentioned in my first post. Looking through the maintenance documentation for that one lists the iGPU, so it would have the graphics switching problem. The omen x looks like the iGPU is disabled. So the specs are going to be i7 7700hq, gtx 1070, 17.3 fhd 120hz display, 32gb 2800 ram, 1tb sata, 2 256gb nvme. Other than a few power management issues I’ve seen posts about it looks like it mostly works. Hard to know for sure though, because those posts haven’t had much follow up but I’m going to give it a whirl. Edit: went with the 4k display instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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