Ableton Forum

I did it. Macbook and Leopard are running everything so well and usb issues are nil, so I got the iMac 3.06 Ghz.

or you could build a HackinTosh

Yeah, I did that the first time around and wound up with a piece of shit that couldn't run Ableton and thus I am here buying a "real" Mac.

Dakara kono bakagetta iranaizou.

"Next, I installed Vista on the PC, just to be sure everything worked. From there, it then took many more hours to get OS X working right—"
Don’t try this at home

"Given the above results, you may be thinking “Geez, I should go build one myself!” Before making such a decision, however, you need to consider the pitfalls of building your own Mac—and there are many. "
"Beyond the functional, legal, and moral issues, there are aesthetic and design concerns. While the case I purchased is nice looking, it’s clearly not in the same league as the case on the Mac Pro."

When I buy a machine from Apple, I know that one warranty covers everything, that all the parts have been designed to work together, that system updates won’t leave me with a non-bootable system, and that as much thought went into the design of the interior of the machine as went into the exterior. Having visited the build-your-own side of the Mac world, I’ve decided I’m more than happy letting Cupertino build my Macs for me—Apple has shown it’s much better at it than I am. And who knows? Maybe one day that mid-range Mac minitower of my dreams will no longer be mythical.