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My experience using Hackintosh low-end PC for 3 years
- Hnrobert42 9y agoHe isn't missing much by not having the app store. I've used a mac as my primary computer at home for since before the app store opened in 2010 and have yet to find a indispensable app on the app store.
- k__ 9y agoI started using macOS 2 months ago (iOS development) and had the impression I needed the app store for OS upgrades and xCode. I there another way?
- vetinari 9y agoAt least Xcode is downloadable from the developer portal. Not sure about OS upgrades.
- roblabla 9y agoYou can get XCode and OS Updates through https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ (you need a login, but it's free AFAIK). EDIT: Actually just checked, looks like there is no update for el capitan or sierra on the dev portal. Drats. My app store works on my hackintosh so I never actually had to use the dev portal anyway ^^'. I used an old mac's ID.
- k__ 9y agoNice to know. I heared much FUD about hackintoshs, I'd just want a mac for work without much hassle to develop. So I kust bought a mac book pro from 2013.
- mnm1 9y agoHave you tried the softwareupdate cli tool? https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apple-mac-os-x-update-softwareupdate-bash-shell-command/ https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apple-mac-os-x-update-software...
- ssutch3 9y agoSomeone should send this guy an iMac
- smnscu 9y agoThat's a wonderful idea. If somebody sets up a gofundme I'd be happy to pitch in.
- devcriollo 9y agoThank you. Here in my country is very difficult to buy a real mac. It costs about 50 minimum monthly wage salaries.
- Cheeseit86 9y agoReally interesting to hear this story and to leave the personal context to the end makes it even more impactful. The perseverance and creativity that this person obviously had to show to get this to work for so long are really inspiring, even if lots of other people have done similar things before. I really hope things get better for your country soon.
- devcriollo 9y agoThank you.
- abhinai 9y agoIs this a standard blog design or is the author of this post also a very creative designer? I am really impressed both by the content and the design of this post.
- paradite 9y agoAs the author noted at the bottom, it's taken from https://rauchg.com https://rauchg.com (the guy behind now.sh)
- afghanPower 9y agoNothing beats minimalistic design. Too bad the majority thinks more is more.
- aw3c2 9y agoIt's very hard to read for me due to the low contrast and monospace font.
- sundvor 9y agoThe black on white monospaced font? As a programmer I found it great.
- aw3c2 9y agoLooks like this for me http://i.imgur.com/XNvYDk7.png http://i.imgur.com/XNvYDk7.png
- vetinari 9y agoProbably font rendering issue at your end. It looks like this: http://imgur.com/a/9ArvB http://imgur.com/a/9ArvB However, it uses mac-specific fonts first, the free fonts (dejavu sans mono, bitstream vera sans mono) and then it falls back to Courier New and browser-set monospace font.
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- leonroy 9y agoReally reminds us who are able to pickup RAM or a graphics card for a few quid that not everyone in the world is so lucky. Very impressed with what Jhonny managed to do. It does beg the question though - what's next for Apple's cheapest Mac, the Mini. I think there is a real opportunity for Apple to release a low powered Mac Mini say the size of an Apple TV which is ARM based and allows schools, universities and folks unable to buy the latest and greatest to have a stable, Unix based development and media platform to work on.
- a_bonobo 9y agoI don't know, I was under the impression that Macs are almost Veblen goods, expensive to raise their status in the eyes of the customer. A cheap Mac could break that impression and cause damage to the brand.
- arthurfm 9y ago> It does beg the question though - what's next for Apple's cheapest Mac, the Mini. If the MacBook Pro is any indication, a price increase (due to the addition of Thunderbolt 3 ports and an Intel CPU with Iris Plus Graphics) and zero user-upgradeable parts (soldered RAM/SSD)? If the new entry-level Mac mini has a Fusion Drive or 128GB SSD as standard this would also result in an additional price increase. I can see more and more people going the Hackintosh route as Macs generally become more expensive.
- walshemj 9y agoApple really need a SKU that is step up from the mini using full fat processors in a SFF case - if they did I think our place would defiantly buy them as replacements for our aging mac minis.
- scarface74 9y agoApple just reduced the price of the 13" MacBook Pro to $1299. That seems to be inline with PCs from Dell with similar specs.
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- ig0r0 9y agoIt is not true you cannot use Store or iCloud because it is not a real Mac. I have been running a hackintosh for half a year now and I use iCloud, Store even iMessage works.
- landave 9y agoI am pretty sure that you need a Board Serial Number (SN) from a real Mac. At least about a year ago this was the case. Did you use a SN from a real Mac? If not, then you probably got lucky. I think there is also the possibility of calling Apple's support hotline and letting them manually activate a randomly generated Serial Number. See also here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/525dsb/getting_imessage_working_on_el_capitan_and_sierra/ https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/525dsb/getting_...
- ig0r0 9y agoFor the Store and iCloud you do not need anything. For iMessage you need to generate a motherboard SN and other stuff, it is not so easy but doable with the right tutorial.
- devcriollo 9y agoIt's hard to make it work, I've tried it many times.
- ComodoHacker 9y ago>Later on I got to read a lot about the Kexts that basically are the equivalent of the drivers in microsoft windows and look for the ones that would serve me for my video card, Everything worked fine. >A few months passed until Yosemite came out, with a renewed interface a lot of improvements, and even included support for my set up >But I did the same again when buying my new GT520 card. And to this day everything has worked perfectly This makes me wonder whether his hardware happened to be used in some Macs or Apple deliberately made those drivers for Hackintosh users?
- microcolonel 9y agoThe NVIDIA drivers are written by NVIDIA. I'm sure they use the same codebase across platforms because I've seen the same shader compiler crashes (doh!) on OS X with NVIDIA as on Windows and Linux. They have to support a pretty wide array of hardware in case somebody plugs it in to one of the PC-style Mac Pros which nobody seems to remember.
- wtallis 9y agoApple tends to ship drivers that will work with almost any GPU from the same product family and generation as the chips Apple is actually using. They could definitely do more to lock things down if they wanted to. I suspect that the slight lost hardware revenue is significantly offset by the App Store revenue and long-term benefits of keeping users on the Apple platform, so Apple doesn't have strong motivation to get in the way of Hackintosh use.
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- willtim 9y agoLinux would provide support for old hardware far in excess of what Apple provides. It's an OS for the many, not a priviledged few; and needs your support. It's also a big security gamble downloading these hacked OSX images from questionable sources.
- ekr 9y agoLinux ran on 80386 until not long ago. Now it requires an 80486.
- devcriollo 9y agoI love linux and I also use it, but I'm a fan of all operating systems.