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I *am* the local IT guy our uni would never support this. We can get a mac, but with the current mac prices I'd be happy to get an i5.. My current macbook is almost 4 years old and I'm envious of my collegues who get a speedy Xeon Dell for half the price. I think I will risk the jump with the 7910 : I read as much as I could about hackintosh and I still have my macbook to work on until the dell is operational. I'll give myself one month to try and after that I reinstall windows and pass the dell to a collegue. I have only 2 more minor questions : - Would you recommend partition-splitting the internal SSD in a win-boot and a mac-boot partition ? - I can get a high-end SSD (NVMe PCIe class 50) which means the dell will have a FlexBay disk controller (intel RST-e). These are quite a bit faster but might introduce Hackintosh troubles. Is this a valid fear or would you consider this solvable with enough patience ? cheers and have a nice weekend !

sorry, i didn't mean to extort any commitment ! It is just that I'm a bit scared

my main concern is that I don't want to buy a 2500$ machine only to realize that i'm stuck with windows. If you say that is is 100% certainly doable, I might go for it Will things like handoff and continuity work ? are there tips that you can give that might make my work easier ? Like opting for (or against) a specific type of video card or other stuff ?

our uni has an exclusive contract with dell so all machines are dells here. We can however choose which one, so even a 7910 with 12core Xeon is an option. I'd like to replace my aging mac with a beefy machine but a mac pro is simply out of budget. A 7910 however is not. With the discount that the uni gets, I can get a 32GB 8core (Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2630 v3 @ 2,4GHz) machine with a AMD FirePro™ W4100 2 GB (4 DP) GPU for about 2200€ which is really a good deal... the question of course is : can I get a hackintosh running on this ? I am an experienced mac user and i'm not afraid to spend a whole day on this, but if you guys say that it is simply not possible, I won't bother. in the latter case, is there another high-end dell that DOES work as a hackintosh ? many thanks !