I don't have any misconceptions, I don't have a mac tower laying around to build some hacintosh. I get most my computer parts either free or wholesale...I've built a whitebox hacintosh. I've said that twice. I don't know why you keep pushing the mac angle. Hardware hobbyists are not going to buy a 2500 dollar mac tower and then six months later tear it down and put new hardware into it...
You didn't follow my comment. Nobody who wants to build a computer to run Mac software has to start with an old Mac. You can use any old or new box or build your own box. Then you can put all of the parts inside--free or wholesale--same as you do now. The point is that both the process and the parts can be the same for either system.
Why do you keep talking about starting with a $2500 Mac tower? You could put mostly generic and scrounged parts along with an Intel processor [nothing Mac/Apple specific] into an old fishtank if you wanted, then make it water cooled. No old Mac or Mac parts required. No investment in a Mac tower or Mac of any kind. It's the same as building a PC, including most of the same parts, and then it could run multiple systems.
Ever build a mechanical computer? Did that as a high school project with my brother many years ago. Didn't require any parts from old computers or anything special off the shelf. Was mostly wood.
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