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Why is the Mac Pro so Expensive?
With the announcement of new Mac Pros, I thought back to the last time I used such a machine, during my years at MTV. At one point I found myself picking up the machine to move it; surprised at the...
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Coming Soon: The NoFilmSchool Hac Pro
When I priced out the components of the new Mac Pro, I realized Apple’s pro line is not a good value proposition. When the same new Mac Pros left off an nVidia graphics card as an option, I took it as...
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Coming Next Week: How to Build a Video Editing Hackintosh
A couple of months ago I said I was going to build a Mac Pro out of PC components, the goal being to make a faster machine that cost a thousand dollars less. I researched and bought the components,...
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How to Build a Video Editing Hackintosh That's Faster than a Mac Pro for Half...
After months of building and testing, my comprehensive step-by-step guide for How to Build a Hackintosh is here. I wrote this guide specifically for video editors and other digital creators, and...
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Nvidia Announces High End GPU for the Mac Pro (and Hackintosh)
One problem Mac Pro owners face is a lack of available nVidia graphics cards for creative professionals, which is important because of Adobe’s utilization of nVidia cards for Premiere Pro and other CS5...
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nVidia Releases Mac Drivers for GTX 400 Series
Apple users who edit with Adobe Premiere Pro will be interested to know that nVidia has released Mac drivers for their latest graphics cards, which should give Mac users some decent Adobe editing...
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Looking for Help to Update the Hackintosh Guide
Since publishing the in-depth How to Build a Hackintosh guide, lots of readers — I don’t know how many, but it seems like hundreds — have successfully built their own version of the machine that’s...
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How to Build a Hackintosh That’s Faster than a Mac Pro for Half the Price -...
Thanks to you guys, I’ve updated the How to Build a Hackintosh guide. It now includes the latest hardware recommendations, including the latest nVidia Fermi cards, and should work perfectly with OS X...
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Update: How to Build a Hackintosh with the Latest Intel Sandy Bridge Processors
The NoFilmSchool Hackintosh was faster than the Mac Pro at half the price. And now it’s even faster… and cheaper. Intel Sandy Bridge processors are the latest silicon from Intel, but are unavailable on...
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How to Upgrade a Hackintosh to Mac OS X Lion (Apparently)
Because it doesn’t necessarily make sense for filmmakers to upgrade to OS X Lion just yet, I haven’t done any testing of this myself. But if anyone running a hackintosh is itching to get their hands on...
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How to Build a Hackintosh with OS X Lion Natively (no Snow Leopard Required)
Since OS X Lion was released, if you wanted to build a Hackintosh (and I would like to think the tutorial on this site is the most comprehensive how-to out there), you had to get your hands on a copy...
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The Latest OS X Lion Hackintosh Recommendations for Video Editors
One of the reasons I haven’t updated my How to Build a Hackintosh guide (which, I should note, is even more popular now than the DSLR Cinematography Guide — probably because most people have the PDF of...
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Build a Mountain Lion Hackintosh w/ Thunderbolt That's Faster Than a Mac Pro...
Apple OS X Mountain Lion came out this summer and it supports the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processors — which means it’s time to update our guide to building a Mac out of high-performance, inexpensive...
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Dude, You Gettin' a Dell? Former Apple Editors Choose 'Yes, Bro' over Mac Pro...
Something weird is going on. We know the Mac Pro hasn’t had a substantial upgrade in some time. We know that something is looming over the horizon, but we don’t know what, exactly. We also know that...
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Hackintosh Mod Used an Actual Trash Can to Look Like Apple's New Mac Pro
We’ve covered the Mac Pro quite a bit on No Film School (too much according to some of you), but considering how long Apple had kept the same design, there was no doubt a new one would get a lot of...
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