[SOLVED] What Mac to buy for about $2000 USD?

[orestesdd]

If one had about $2000 USD, what Mac model would one buy and why? Let me know if you need more info before answering my question. Thanks.

 

[Supermuncher85]

trolling..

At this point I'd agree 😀

 

[orestesdd]

I was not to impressed either. Just overpriced.

I always thought so; thus, we are on agreement about the price or overprice. Thanks.

 

[orestesdd]

I would spend the $2000 on a triple corssfire 7970 setup that you can add to your PC build 😉

At this point, I will leave my build (Hack) as it is. I want to add a real Mac some time soon. By the way, my build (Hack) is a dual boot PC with Windows 7 Pro installed, and I am very please with its performance. At any rate, thanks.

 

[orestesdd]

Don't waste your money on the Retina display Macs, go for the other non-Retina ones. I had read that with the Retina ones, most apps don't even support resolutions that high, especially if you try to install Windows 7 on it via Bootcamp, it will have problems.

Thanks for pointing that out. I don't think the Retina display is such a great thing. It sounds to me more like a gimmick than an improvement over other HD displays. Just my opinion.

 

[maxinexus]

Take your $2000 and buy a 30 IPS monitor and GTX680. You will have some leftover money to buy ipad for your wife too.

 

[wiinippongamer]

Thanks for pointing that out. I don't think the Retina display is such a great thing. It sounds to me more like a gimmick than an improvement over other HD displays. Just my opinion.

The WHOLE apple product lineup is a gimmick, but oh well. Ain't my money 😀

 

[orestesdd]

The WHOLE apple product lineup is a gimmick, but oh well. Ain't my money 😀

I agree..

 

[orestesdd]

Is this a troll thread because OP never responded?

OP, if you aren't trolling,

your current build is already a perfectly viable hackintosh (depending on what his graphics are).

I have the same motherboard (z68x-ud3h-b3) and it basically works out of the box with OSX Lion / Mountain Lion.

This isn't a "trolling tread whatsoever! If you don't like my posts, then say nothing or post nothing, period. So far, nobody has given me the answer to decide what to do.

 

[edogawa]

I would build a custom PC and use VMware to run OSX if for some ungodly reason it was needed.

 

[orestesdd]

I would build a custom PC and use VMware to run OSX if for some ungodly reason it was needed.

Isn't VMware an expensive piece of software? I used Oracle VM VirtualBox, but it was hard to keep it up with the software. By the way, VirtualBox is free, and I believe VMware is about a $200 proposition.

 

[orestesdd]

Best answer selected by orestesdd.

 

[wiinippongamer]

You call every software which main purpose is OS virtualization VMware, That one of those programs is called VMware is a different matter.