Commentary: Four years ago, I built a PC, then made it run like a Mac. Soon, Apple will stop it from working.
One of my favorite nerd toys is about to turn into a relic, and it’s Apple’s fault.
Back in 2016, I was frustrated Apple hadn’t updated its Mac Mini, iMac or Mac Procomputers in at least a year. The company was pumping out new iPhones, iPads, AirPods and MacBooks at a regular pace, and I had at least one of each. The desktop Macs weren’t getting the same attention.
I wanted a low-cost multipurpose machine I could rely on for work and play for the next several years. But if I plunked down the $499 starting price Apple wanted for its Mac Mini computers at the time, I’d be paying the full amount for a machine whose innards were more than two years old. Not OK.
So I decided to do one of the nerdiest things a techie Apple user can do: I built a PC.
I bought all the parts I needed, including a storage drive, system memory and a graphics card. Next, I put them together in a rather generic-looking case. Then I tricked Apple’s MacOS software into powering it.
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