| ▲ | bottlepalm 3 hours ago |
| The Neo as well, I just need a Mac to test with and finding one is ridiculous. Hackintoshes are hell to setup and run like crap. I tried https://www.macincloud.com/ and that was a waste of time. Someone take my money. |
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| ▲ | montebicyclelo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Ever considered second hand slightly older gens? Even M1 is still great for many use cases. E.g. often corps are selling them on Ebay, in pretty good condition. |
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| ▲ | morphle 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Indeed, ton's of refurbished for $250-$300 | | |
| ▲ | bottlepalm 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yea it does look like 5 year old M1's are going for $300 on eBay, but man that's painful a 5 year old machine for that much when you could get a new Neo or Mini for $600, if only you could buy them. I probably should just get the M1, test and sell it back on eBay. Thanks. | | |
| ▲ | deaux 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If you're going to do any kind of work on it I'd choose a 5-year old 16 GB memory M1 over a Neo every single time. 8 GB is what's painful. The CPU difference is very small anyway. | |
| ▲ | brailsafe 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If you literally just need to borrow one, I'd just buy an Air from Apple directly and then return it within the 14 day window. I'll sometimes do this if I need an extended repair on my personal one, or there's a new mac I want to try. | | |
| ▲ | valleyer 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is unethical. | | |
| ▲ | nirava 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | If the return policy explicitly allows "change of mind", I'd say it's in the gray area. Though ofc it isn't sustainable if everyone starts doing this. I assume there's a ((returns:buys)/payment identity) metric to ban the largest offenders. Also, there should be some universally accepted way to have access to your data and a secure personal computer in the duration your device is getting repaired. |
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| ▲ | MikeNotThePope 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If a $300 Mac can do the job, a $600 Mac is overkill. | |
| ▲ | yreg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Neo isn't much better than M1. |
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| ▲ | scboffspring 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Not sure what happened to you with macincloud, but I used scaleway hosted Mac mini M1 a couple years ago for a self hosted CI server, and it was working very nicely. |
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| ▲ | bottlepalm 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | They don't really advertise that you can install nothing on the machine. It's super restricted. | | |
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| ▲ | hurricanepootis 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I remember 4 years ago I was able to setup MacOS in a virtual machine. Maybe you can setup an Intel copy of MacOS on a qemu/kvm virtual machine? |
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| ▲ | bottlepalm 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I tried this, https://oneclick-macos-simple-kvm.notaperson535.is-a.dev/, it wasn't bad for 'one click install' and got the VM running, it was just unusably slow and burning up my machine. Seems like I need graphics acceleration in the VM which doesn't work on my Ryzen GPU - QEMU running on Windows, and I don't want to deal with dual booting. Literally would rather buy a Mac (if I could). |
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| ▲ | morphle 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you send me an email I might have a machine or MacOS VM on that machine you can use. |
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| ▲ | dyauspitr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I don’t even think you can do hackintoshes anymore post Apple silicon right? I remember having one about 10 years ago and it was absolutely fantastic and ran really well. Wish we could do that now so I wouldn’t have to develop apps on my M3 MacBook Air, which constantly runs out of memory and is a huge pain. |
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| ▲ | forsalebypwner an hour ago | parent [-] | | You can for now, but in the very near future (macOS 27 I think?) Apple will completely drop support for Intel, and Hackintosh will be dead |
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