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Is there a powerful laptop which can be 'hackintoshed' to run macOS? Apple's current machines are unappealing. It feels like the mid-90s just before Apple start

• coderobe 10y ago
  I'm using a Hackintoshed Lenovo Y50-70 (FHD model) running MacOS Sierra and i can only recommend it so far, all of the configurations that are being sold are very compatible with macOS. It even comes with a dedicated GPU which is great for GPU-intensive tasks on different OSes - it's disabled whilst running macOS because of missing drivers for nVidia optimus though.
• astrodust 10y ago
  > It feels like the mid-90s just before Apple started allowing Mac clones. There's parallels there, where at the time Apple was being pinched by infighting within the the PowerPC consortium. Motorola and IBM were squabbling over who would get to do what, and the 604 vs. 603e battle was well under-way. Apple eventually bailed on the PowerPC and moved to the more industry standard Intel CPU. It wasn't cloning that solved Apple's problems, it was eliminating their PowerPC handicap. The real obstacle right now is Intel. They're up against the wall on process, they're flailing a little, and the year over year CPU gains are pretty marginal. Now that AMD is back in the game maybe that'll help clear up this logjam. The alternative is, strangely enough, that Apple steers towards ARM for their laptops where they have more control over their destiny. Note that Apple's not the only one feeling the crunch here. Every single laptop vendor is stuck using whatever Intel gives them excepting the few that have gone with AMD.