Benchmark Reviews posted a follow-up article on their Hackintosh build
Recently I described my latest Hackintosh build, a mini-ITX system based on an Intel Core i3-3220 CPU, an ASUS P8H77-i motherboard, and an ASUS GTX660 video card. I had to work with what our vendors sent us for the project, but that doesn't mean that you do. In this follow-up article I'll explore the performance and price of some different CPU and video hardware options.Hackintosh Performance Hardware Options
As Apple moves aggressively down the road towards making all of their products sealed, non-expandable, and non-serviceable computing appliances, the allure of the Hackintosh only grows. Apple started this with the original Macbook Air's soldered-in memory, and the iPhone's non-removable battery and lack of a card slot carried onwards to the iPad. The iMac is the latest product to be a glued-together black box, and I'm sure the next refresh of the Mac Mini will be a sealed slab of aluminum, too. Only the very expensive Mac Pro retains any semblance of expansion and service features.
For readers of this web site, the appeal of a Hackintosh is that you can design a Mac work-alike machine exactly as you want it, and can easily upgrade it to boot, since it's just a PC hardware-wise. I've written three previous Hackintosh articles, covering the original X58-based machine in October, 2010, and the updated Sandy Bridge version in August, 2011. In between these two articles I covered the Hackintosh Experience in November, 2010.