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I built a Mini-ITX hackintosh with recommended hardware (Gigabyte mobo, half mini PCI express wifi/BT card, NVIDIA GTX 980, etc.) for mobile development (iPhone
by Hydraulix989 10y ago
I built a Mini-ITX hackintosh with recommended hardware (Gigabyte mobo, half mini PCI express wifi/BT card, NVIDIA GTX 980, etc.) for mobile development (iPhone), and it is fantastic, with only a few quirks. It's running El Capitan (I actually started with Mavericks and upgraded it), but I haven't installed any of the minor version updates from the App Store (averting the imminent breakage disaster).
Xcode runs like shit on my Macbook Pro -- it's very laggy, but my hackintosh has "trashcan" Mac Pro spec'd hardware, Xcode runs like a dream, and it only cost me $600 in parts.
I did spend a good week setting it up and tweaking various Clover settings and kexts (I mistakenly copied them over manually instead of patching them in Clover so next time I upgrade, I'm going to have a fun time).
It took some work to get HDA and Bluetooth 4.0 to work, and the wifi doesn't work so well, but I use ethernet anyways. Finder also runs a little unstable, but I switched to using Pathfinder.
Overall, it's lightning fast, stable, and very responsive -- an equivalent Mac Pro would have been $4k.