Why I built hackintosh

There is the reason behind building Hackintosh for iOS development, which was quite simple. My 16” MacBook Pro broke (twice), and repair in Latvia took 3-4 weeks, so I needed something to work on my freelance projects.

I recorded a video back then and listed few more reasons.

I’m still using it for streaming and video conferences, even it is not much faster than my M1 MBP.

🖥 Hackintosh build parts:

CPU: Intel i9-9900k

MB: ASUS Z390 E-Gaming

Graphics Card: Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

Case: NZXT H510

Power Supply: Corsair cx650

CPU Water Cooler: Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240L RGB

32GB DDR4 Ram: Kingston HyperX Fury RGB 32GB

500 GB SSD: 970 EVO SSD 500GB

Wifi/Bluetooth Card: MQUPIN fenvi T919

How I built it

13” M1 MBP

As soon as 13” M1 MBP was available locally, I ordered 16GB RAM 512SSD configuration, and since then, it is my daily driver.

Speed comparing with my Hackintosh is impressive. It is about the same power as a beefy desktop. 16” MBP failed miserably in my side-to-side performance tests.

Comfort matters

When I dropped my day job to build my apps and started freelancing, I tried to spend close to nothing on the office, but after about a year, I began to invest back into development tools.

I just realized that if I’m staring into the screen for longer hours than sleeping in my bed, better to have a great one applicable to the keyboard, chair, etc.