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I ran a Hackintosh laptop for a couple of years - a Dell mini 9, probably the best supported laptop for Mac OS ever. It was great. Basically everything worked,
by grecy 10y ago
I ran a Hackintosh laptop for a couple of years - a Dell mini 9, probably the best supported laptop for Mac OS ever.
It was great. Basically everything worked, and it never crashed.
Well, almost. Sometimes sound would stop working until reboot. Sometime wifi would not work after wake from sleep. I couldn't upgrade Mac OS. The keyboard was garbage, as was the screen. Ironically, A friend tripped over the cord and smashed the screen - if it was a real mac MagSafe would have saved it. (I replaced the screen for $35, which was nice).
All in all it was great, and after it I saved and saved and bought a real Mac Book Air 13 in 2012. I could not be happier. I have used it for tens of thousands of hours and it's still going strong taking a lot of abuse in West Africa.
At the end of the day, a Hackintosh just approaches the Apple experience, but I don't think it will ever get there.
- 5_minutes 10y agoThe sleep/awake problems you're describring here also happen quite often of "real" Macs.
- e40 10y agoI have a fairly large sample size, and I've had zero issues with sleep/wake, except one: rarely, when I used to use a 2014 MBP for my desktop (external monitor, keyboard, mouse), about 1 in 30 times I would disconnect it to go to a meeting, it wouldn't wake from sleep and required a hard reboot. It seems to be related to losing the monitor/keyboard, as it never happened other situations.
- swozey 10y agoI unfortunately buy a new MBP every year (except 2017 because I've got a 2016 and the upgrade didn't have the 32gb I expected). I have had problems with sleep/wake on probably every single machine. Did you leave it on to where it got to 0-5% battery and shut off? When I do that it takes me about 10 minutes to start actually using the thing again it's so throttled regardless of the fact that it's now plugged into an outlet. Even restarting it at that point doesn't help much. I have to just sit there waiting for it to hit 8% or 10% or whatever it hits to stop throttling everything. More often than not when I plug in my two monitors one won't come on until I do it again. Or maybe the third time. Then about 30% of the time when I close it and unplug everything and remove my headphones the thing is still running and my music blasts through the office. No manufacturer is infallible but this is the kind of stuff I would've quickly replaced my laptop and gone to another brand over if I wasn't so tied into OSX.
- rconti 10y agoI'd say sleep/wake is vastly better on "real" Macs than any other platform I've seen. Though I think I've heard reports of issues on the latest MBPs, is that what you refer to?
- Washuu 10y agoMy 2007 MacBook Pro had insomnia. It would wake up randomly and refuse to go to sleep. What killed it was it woke up in a plane's overhead bin causing it die from overheating in my laptop bag. My 2012 MacBook Pro would just refuse to wake up sometimes. My 2016 MacBook Pro is sometimes slow to wake from sleep, but no major issues yet. My 2007 Mac Pro would cause a kernel panic when putting it sleep.
- j_s 10y agoSleep/wake kills my webcam sometimes, but it's been blamed on Android file transfer utility. Other than that, no issues yet for me! https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4300327 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4300327? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/camera-not-working.1467329/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/camera-not-working.1467... if I go to activity monitor and find the "android file transfer agent" process and close it, the camera starts working again
- akhilcacharya 10y agoI did the same with a MSI Wind U100 - absolutely fantastic machine, worked pretty much seamlessly on the distro I got.