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I'll be building a Hackintosh with 64 gb or ram and the latest processors and ssd. There is a strong community for that now and it's apparently more robust than

I'll be building a Hackintosh with 64 gb or ram and the latest processors and ssd. There is a strong community for that now and it's apparently more robust than it used to be. Here's a good article by one developer on his experience: https://medium.com/swlh/building-my-1-200-hackintosh-49a1a186241e#.r0t16ep1z https://medium.com/swlh/building-my-1-200-hackintosh-49a1a18...

whywhywhywhy 10y ago
> My audio doesn’t work From the article. Not sure why people still pass this around as if it's positive.
- sctblol 10y ago
  It probably can be patched with this: https://github.com/toleda/audio_CloverALC https://github.com/toleda/audio_CloverALC You can also use a USB headset as I do.
- yardie 10y ago
  It's unavoidable. Most PC motherboards everything is swappable to the Mac equivalent. You can change the wifi daughter card for a compatible model. You can change the video card for a compatible model. You can't change the built in audio chip that's on the motherboard. But you can alleviate it with a superior USB DAC
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- izacus 10y ago
  > Not sure why people still pass this around as if it's positive. Well, there IS a site out there that lists 100% compatible hardware which includes (yes!) working Audio and other hardware.
- jacquesc 10y ago
  To be clear, his audio jack doesn't work. He gets audio via USB. So no less broken than an iPhone 7.
  - TulliusCicero 10y ago
    I approve of this burn.
bshimmin 10y ago
Man, 64GB of RAM For $229. I remember buying 8MB for more than that...
- unclenoriega 10y ago
  64G ought to be enough for anybody.
johncolanduoni 10y ago
Given the state of macOS virtualization with KVM, and how easy it is to find processors/motherboards with VT-d, I don't understand why people bother trying to get it to run on bare metal. Instead of having to choose almost every component super carefully, you just need to be careful about your graphics card and linux support for everything else. The main strike against it I can think of is the performance hit for nested virtualization if you want to use something like Parallels or Docker inside macOS, but you can virtualize "sideways" without too much more effort in a lot of cases.

whywhywhywhy 10y ago

> My audio doesn’t work From the article. Not sure why people still pass this around as if it's positive.

sctblol 10y ago
It probably can be patched with this: https://github.com/toleda/audio_CloverALC https://github.com/toleda/audio_CloverALC You can also use a USB headset as I do.
yardie 10y ago
It's unavoidable. Most PC motherboards everything is swappable to the Mac equivalent. You can change the wifi daughter card for a compatible model. You can change the video card for a compatible model. You can't change the built in audio chip that's on the motherboard. But you can alleviate it with a superior USB DAC
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izacus 10y ago
> Not sure why people still pass this around as if it's positive. Well, there IS a site out there that lists 100% compatible hardware which includes (yes!) working Audio and other hardware.
jacquesc 10y ago
To be clear, his audio jack doesn't work. He gets audio via USB. So no less broken than an iPhone 7.
- TulliusCicero 10y ago
  I approve of this burn.

bshimmin 10y ago

Man, 64GB of RAM For $229. I remember buying 8MB for more than that...

unclenoriega 10y ago
64G ought to be enough for anybody.

johncolanduoni 10y ago

Given the state of macOS virtualization with KVM, and how easy it is to find processors/motherboards with VT-d, I don't understand why people bother trying to get it to run on bare metal. Instead of having to choose almost every component super carefully, you just need to be careful about your graphics card and linux support for everything else. The main strike against it I can think of is the performance hit for nested virtualization if you want to use something like Parallels or Docker inside macOS, but you can virtualize "sideways" without too much more effort in a lot of cases.