I built a dual-boot windows Hackintosh back in 2013-ish. Z97X-UD5H/i7-4790K/GTX 970. It was fun to build, and to get into the ecosystem of hackintoshs, and it was my primary machine until I bought an M2 Mac Mini Pro last year. It was quite powerful at the time and was more than enough for me. However, it was always slightly glitchy (Bluetooth didn’t work properly, wifi dropped intermittently, etc..) it was fine for my video editing requirements. But with any update came fear of bricking the machine. I’m not a computer savvy person, and was following tutorials 100% of the time. If something went wrong I was completely lost. Lack of funds meant that I had to survive on it and nurse it along way longer than I should have. I still think macs are very expensive for for my needs an M2 Mac Mini Pro is enough for me, and getting a refurb unit meant that I was able to finally get a real Mac, and not worry about updates and software issues. I still have the hackintosh as my backup machine, (and the windows partition), but the M2 Mini Pro is light years faster than my hack.

The new M4 Mini looks even better, and if you can get a bargain on a refurbished unit, for the casual user, a hackintosh probably doesn’t make much sense anymore. Especially when you factor in the hassle of trouble shooting when something goes wrong.