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hubris https://i.imgur.com/z3E3rLY.png https://i.imgur.com/z3E3rLY.png The problem with all of these builds is you're damning yourself to working on top shift

hubris https://i.imgur.com/z3E3rLY.png https://i.imgur.com/z3E3rLY.png The problem with all of these builds is you're damning yourself to working on top shifting sands and either committing yourself to rooting around in Mac OS plumbing (which I'm sure isn't documented well or even wholly exposed) or hoping the community patches things.

j0hann 7y ago
wifi seems to the major issue this hackintosh has
- sparkling 7y ago
  On laptops: yes. On desktops there are plenty of cheap PCI-E cards available... or USB dongles.
  - j0hann 7y ago
    true
acomjean 7y ago
I had the same issue with my hacintosh. (Snow leopard vintage). It worked great, was fast. But I lived in fear that some update would break it. I switched it over to linux and gave it a friend after after a couple years service. I did like the bang for the buck.
ultrarunner 7y ago
This used to be the case, and still is for laptop builds. For desktops, things are far more standardized now and Apple's hardware isn't much different than what is commercially available. A Z370/390 chipset with 7th-9th generation i5 or i7 processor coupled with AMD graphics and Broadcom wireless is pretty vanilla. The 7700k iMacs will be supported for a long time, so I have pretty high confidence that something with nearly identical hardware will similarly not break.
- xenospn 7y ago
  I'm actually somewhat surprised macOS does not check for the existence of a T2 chip as a precondition.
  - daenney 7y ago
    How would that work for all the hardware Apple has released and still supports that predate the T2? For reference, the upcoming macOS Catalina still supports the following hardware: MacBook Pro (mid 2012 and newer) MacBook Air (mid 2012 and newer) MacBook (early 2015 and later) iMac (late 2012 or newer) iMac Pro (2017 or newer) Mac Pro (late 2013 or newer) Mac Mini (late 2012 or newer) Apple T1 was introduced in 2016, T2 started showing up with the iMac Pro in 2017, the rest of the lineup got it in the 2018 refresh.
    - damnyou 7y ago
      You're right, but at some point support will be dropped for the older Macs and an Apple proprietary security chip will be made mandatory. DRM will kill the Hackintosh dream. How sad.
  - tonyedgecombe 7y ago
    I expect that will happen once all the supported devices have a T2. That is probably some way off though as they are still selling new hardware without it, for example the recently updated iMacs.
tracker1 7y ago
Been running high sierra on a hackintosh for a couple years now. Of course, even my actual macbook is also on nvidia graphics (mid-2014), so next desktop will just jump over to Linux since Apple won't let Nvidia get drivers out.
- ryuukk_ 7y ago
  correction: NVIDIA refuse to allocate resources to support Metal 2 Since macOS shell now requires Metal 2, it makes even installing old version of the driver impossible so yeah the bad guy is your lazy daddy NVIDIA
p1necone 7y ago
I'll take that over the absurd amount of money I'd have to otherwise pay for a mac system. All so that they will graciously allow me to to develop software for their other, totally unrelated mobile OS.
- jki275 7y ago
  OSX/MacOS and iOS are the same operating system. They look different because they have different gui layers, but are otherwise the same.

j0hann 7y ago

wifi seems to the major issue this hackintosh has

sparkling 7y ago
On laptops: yes. On desktops there are plenty of cheap PCI-E cards available... or USB dongles.
- j0hann 7y ago
  true

acomjean 7y ago

I had the same issue with my hacintosh. (Snow leopard vintage). It worked great, was fast. But I lived in fear that some update would break it. I switched it over to linux and gave it a friend after after a couple years service. I did like the bang for the buck.

ultrarunner 7y ago

This used to be the case, and still is for laptop builds. For desktops, things are far more standardized now and Apple's hardware isn't much different than what is commercially available. A Z370/390 chipset with 7th-9th generation i5 or i7 processor coupled with AMD graphics and Broadcom wireless is pretty vanilla. The 7700k iMacs will be supported for a long time, so I have pretty high confidence that something with nearly identical hardware will similarly not break.

xenospn 7y ago
I'm actually somewhat surprised macOS does not check for the existence of a T2 chip as a precondition.
- daenney 7y ago
  How would that work for all the hardware Apple has released and still supports that predate the T2? For reference, the upcoming macOS Catalina still supports the following hardware: MacBook Pro (mid 2012 and newer) MacBook Air (mid 2012 and newer) MacBook (early 2015 and later) iMac (late 2012 or newer) iMac Pro (2017 or newer) Mac Pro (late 2013 or newer) Mac Mini (late 2012 or newer) Apple T1 was introduced in 2016, T2 started showing up with the iMac Pro in 2017, the rest of the lineup got it in the 2018 refresh.
  - damnyou 7y ago
    You're right, but at some point support will be dropped for the older Macs and an Apple proprietary security chip will be made mandatory. DRM will kill the Hackintosh dream. How sad.
- tonyedgecombe 7y ago
  I expect that will happen once all the supported devices have a T2. That is probably some way off though as they are still selling new hardware without it, for example the recently updated iMacs.

tracker1 7y ago

Been running high sierra on a hackintosh for a couple years now. Of course, even my actual macbook is also on nvidia graphics (mid-2014), so next desktop will just jump over to Linux since Apple won't let Nvidia get drivers out.

ryuukk_ 7y ago
correction: NVIDIA refuse to allocate resources to support Metal 2 Since macOS shell now requires Metal 2, it makes even installing old version of the driver impossible so yeah the bad guy is your lazy daddy NVIDIA

p1necone 7y ago

I'll take that over the absurd amount of money I'd have to otherwise pay for a mac system. All so that they will graciously allow me to to develop software for their other, totally unrelated mobile OS.

jki275 7y ago
OSX/MacOS and iOS are the same operating system. They look different because they have different gui layers, but are otherwise the same.