Let's reality-check Apples pricing for once:Building a Hackintosh is getting easier and easier.
https://hackintosh.com/Here's how you make your Lenovo Y50 or Y70 Touch a hackintosh:
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-lenovo-y50-uhd-or-1080p-using-clover-uefi.232960/Here's how easy it is to change the battery, for example:
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Lenovo+Y50-70+Touch+Battery+Replacement/36853Here's a comparison between Apple Macbook Pros (I guess not the top of the line) and those Lenovos:
https://www.gadgetsnow.com/compare-laptops/Apple-MacBook-Pro-MLW72HNA-Laptop-vs-Lenovo-Y50-70-vs-Lenovo-Ideapad-Y700-80NV0028US-Laptop-Core-i7-6th-Gen16-GB1-TBWindows-104-GB-vs-Apple-MacBook-Pro-MJLT2HNA-LaptopI can't find a direct comparison between the Lenovo and MPTT2LL/A.
Let's compare both manually:
Apple:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-15-2017-2-9-GHz-560.248070.0.htmlIn this configuration:
new today -
€ 2.830,00Lenovo:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Y50-70-GTX-960M-4K-Notebook-Review.145340.0.html In this configuration:
new 2015 - € 1.499,00 (Let's just say half)
new today - $ 1.325 or
€ 1.094,52. (Let's just say two fifth)
BenchmarksCinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit160 Points (First is always apple)
135 Points (Second is always Lenovo)
Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit630 Points
517 Points
PCMark 8 - Home Score Accelerated v2 3819 (min: 3816, max: 3827) Points
2554 Points
3DMark 11 - 1280x720 Performance5718 (min: 5700, max: 6839) Points
5444 Points
3DMark 1920x1080 Fire Strike Score3576 (min: 3566, max: 3578) Points
3907 Points
3DMark 1280x720 Cloud Gate Standard Score15047 (min: 15036, max: 16015) Points
13326 Points
Very similiar already. But:
Be aware that the Lenovo has deactivates CPU Turbo in multi-thread applications due to thermals. If you improve the cooling (Like, with liquid metal thermal paste) you can activate it with Throttlestop. That would bring a huge boost to those numbers up there - and probably make it beat the Macbook.
Macbook also thermo- and power-throttles. You can mitigate the thermo-throttling, but not power-throttling.
Also the Radeon Pro 555 version of the apple Macbook right off the bat worse in GPU scores, while still costing double of the lenovo.
But what about the downsides of using a Hackintosh instead of building one? Just read this from MacWorld website about Hackintoshs downsides:
https://www.macworld.com/article/3201034/macs/hackintosh-should-you-build-one.htmlThey could only come up with one actual downside. The rest ist just: "I need to come up with something, arg"- squeezing the fingers. If you know what I mean. Just postpone the update until find out if it is working, or if not, until you find a fix.
Conclusion: You could get the same Software (Mac OS or whatever), better or actual maintainability, potentially the same Speed, interchangeable double-sized SSD, half battery life, half as good screen - but 4k for two fifth of the price.
If even MacWorld couldn't come up with more than one good reason not to build a Hackintosh, you are making an idiot out of yourself for paying their prices!*EVEN BIGGER SENTENCE*