If you want a low cost, relatively low effort Hackintosh, look into running macOS on one of the lower-end ThinkPad X220 or X220 Tablet laptops that you can buy

If you want a low cost, relatively low effort Hackintosh, look into running macOS on one of the lower-end ThinkPad X220 or X220 Tablet laptops that you can buy second-hand, following this guide: http://x220.mcdonnelltech.com/ http://x220.mcdonnelltech.com/ Granted, the lower-end x220 and x220 Tablet machines are nowhere near as strong as the MBP you’d typically buy. Perhaps even an higher-end (stronger CPU, more RAM) version of the x220 or x220 Tablet might be worth it? Another thing about this vs MBP is battery life. Apple did a really good job of optimizing MBP for battery life. You won’t get the same kind of battery life on the x220 or x220 Tablet. Also, speaking of battery, when you buy secondhand you risk getting a bad battery, so be prepared to shell out for a replacement battery. I bought an x220 Tablet with an i5 CPU and 8 GB of RAM second-hand and put macOS on it. I also bought a compatible mini-PCIe WiFi card like the page I mentioned above suggests and switched the one that was inside for that. Switching out the WiFi card in the machine is a nice opportunity to clean the insides of the laptop of dust anyway. ThinkPads are very easy to disassemble, service and put back together, that is a big part of their appeal for me and many others. However, I’ve only booted the system and tested it a little bit to confirm it works, because I haven’t had time to play around with it. I did have some problems with the mouse pointer or keyboard when I tested it. That problem might be because I haven’t yet installed the suggested BIOS. So before you decide you decide to go with x220 or x220 Tablet, talk or read about what others that are using it are saying about the performance and check if anyone has experienced input problems with the keyboard and mouse and if that is simply solved by installing that BIOS. There are some people on /r/ThinkPad that run macOS on x220 or x220 Tablet. Likewise, there are some posts about these computers on /r/hackintosh. https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/8chtpk/just_bought_a_new_x220_and_installed_high_sierra/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/8chtpk/just_bough... https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/839544/is_bios_v143_needed_for_high_sierra_on_x220/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/839544/is_bios_v1... https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/search?q=x220%20macOS https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/search?q=x220%20macOS https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/search?q=mcdonnelltech https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/search?q=mcdonnelltech https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/search?q=x220 https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/search?q=x220 Also perhaps someone else on HN do too and would like to chime in here as well?