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You're screwed. Hackintosh is a thing of the past.Windows 10 sucks ass but I don't think Mac is worth half of what it costs, so what do I do?
Cheapest place to buy Macs, and to purchase special version of MacBooks, is MacMall:I like PCs more. I have a ultrabook with 16 GB DDR4 RAM, a 1 TB NVME HD, 8th gen i7, backlit keyboard, and touchscreen with Wacom digitizer and it costs about $850. I don't even know what that would cost for a Mac.
http://www.macmall.com/
Terrible customer service and support. Only those who really want to shave $50-$150 off the Amazon Apple-supplied price (depending on the unit) should use them, or those looking to save even bigger on brand new units of the older models. This is your clearance warehouse.
This was the only outlet that sold the special, zenith model of the MacBook Pro back in 2009 (with a 1920x1080 resolution display). That ran me something like $3.3K at the time, IIRC. Those were still in the golden years of OS X: before torrents truly penetrated the mass market, and smartphones had become the predominant form of computing in the world. I blame these realities for what the OS has become.
I mention this because half a decade ago Macs had come down in price. People whinged about the premium, but it had largely disappeared. MacBooks were only a few hundred dollars more than PC laptops of similar build quality-- sometimes cheaper than PCs with "brand" recognition (ex. Alienware). Today? It's gone back to what it was before. Ridiculous, sheeple markups. Unless for some reason you need 4xThunderbolt ports they are just a garbage hardware value.
You can get better hardware than this in a PC laptop for roughly half the price ($1199 vs. $2299):
https://www.amazon.com/Apple-MLW82LL-15-4-inch-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B01LTHXAOA
Even if you step up to business class build quality you can find PC laptops ranging from $1.5k-$2k with the same guts.