Interesting. I wonder if some apps can make better use of the architecture than others?
Could be an idea!
Been looking at TonyMac86.
My other thought is to make the whole scene up, then change the render ranges for each of the 4 Mac's I have around the place. And then leave them overnight rendering a section of the scene.
Then when complete pull all the PNG's into one place and renumber them all.
Andy
Cool build btw Pod! I have an hackintosh.
Life is too short for such things. The irony is that most of the folks doing extreme Hackintosh builds seem to be doing it for fun. After all, $2k is a lot to spend on an experiment (and that's for Core i7 builds), and if you don't want to go through hell every time there's an OS update Mac Pros are cheaper than equivalent Windows workstations.
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...s-2000-cheaper-than-the-equivalent-windows-pc
The one place where a Hackintosh really makes sense is for GPU-specific applications (NVidia GPUs in particular, since Apple has been skewing towards AMD a lot lately).
Pod your post on this comes at a very interesting time for me. Two days ago I had a serious system crash that not only housed my Hackintosh install (it was acting finicky for some months now - mostly due I think to me not fully understanding Clover) but also my Windows 8 disk too.Sad that Apple doesn't sell a quad core mini at the moment as it was always the best bang for your buck.
HP is aggressively marketing their workstation machines to Pro Customers:
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/workstations/mac-to-z.html