Hi everybody. I live on the beautiful semi-tropical island of Taiwan, in the northern capitol city Taipei. I use MAC Pro running Mountain Lion for multi-track audio recording. I use four Presonus Firestudio Projects for audio conversion and my system has two Apple approved Gigabyte Nvidia graphics cards that power 4 24" Full HD LED monitors. When recording, even 4 monitors can get really cluttered, ending up with many plugins being buried. I have also been a hackintosh fan since Snow Leopard. I have three PCs now running OSX; an old Pentium 4 running Tiger, and two early core 2 duo with Snow Leopard and Lion. Now I am trying my luck at putting mavericks on my 6-core AMD. If you are reading this, I'd just like to comment on the many people that hack PCs with OSX saying Apple's MAC Pro is too expensive. Well, in fact a brand new one may be, but when you look at the level of hardware, these Apple machines way out class even the best gaming PCs. Mac Pros use XEON processors, typically 2 physical chips. These are workstation/server level machines. The memory is error correction type ECC and they are rock stable running OSX which was originally based on the FreeBSD kernel but fine tuned for Apple hardware. If I were serious about having a second production machine, I would look on eBay for a second hand 2011 to 2012 model with 2 4-core Xeons. Personally, I do not like the new Mac Pro. My specific complaint is that I cannot use third party graphics cards. By radically changing the hardware design to an "air freshener", I basically would be unable to perform any upgrade myself. So in the future, I may be forced to buy an HP, Dell or Lenovo server with Xeon's and pry OSX on that. (or abandon OSX for Windows?) -Stevebuck
