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I don't suppose you have a link to a write up or guide you followed?

by arbol 7y ago

vetinari 7y ago
Try r/hackintosh vanilla guide. You may find, that other guides are refering to old/obsolete tools, and thus will not work with current macOS. Also expect learning new things and spending several evenings trying. Compared to hackintosh, installing Linux on random hardware is a walk in the park.
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  > Also expect learning new things and spending several evenings trying. Compared to hackintosh, installing Linux on random hardware is a walk in the park. I've been a Hackintosh user for the past decade. I've not done it yet, but the next time I need to do a brand new Hackintosh setup, I'm planning on using ESXI. It seems perfect—you're getting very little performance loss in exchange for a setup which is (kind of) officially supported by Apple. Maybe when I actually do it, I'll discover some terrible downside, but it seems incredibly appealing.
  - vetinari 7y ago
    I did my first hackintosh few days ago just for the learning experience, I have normal Macs otherwise. It does have a problem with flickering screen; I suspect it is due to 10-bits per pixel that I cannot switch from and the cheap HDMI2 cable used. Wrt ESXI - are you aware, that with ESXI you will lose local console (and all the GPU-goodness)? After ESXI boots, it has only text-mode notice, how to connect remotely and that's it. You will be stuck with remote access. For things like build machine or test-runner, that's fine, but if you want to run something interactive... well, let us know about the experience ;)
    - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
      I'm pretty sure I can do GPU passthrough? https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2018/09/using-gpus-with-virtual-machines-on-vsphere-part-2-vmdirectpath-i-o.html https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2018/09/using-gpus-with-virtua...
      - vetinari 7y ago
        Yeah, that's an option, too.
lasagnaphil 7y ago
Here: https://github.com/wmchris/DellXPS15-9550-OSX https://github.com/wmchris/DellXPS15-9550-OSX By the way, it doesn’t support discrete GPU, but Nvidia GPU performace in the XPS 15 is horrible due to heavy throttling anyway.

I don't suppose you have a link to a write up or guide you followed?

by arbol 7y ago

I don't suppose you have a link to a write up or guide you followed?

Try r/hackintosh vanilla guide. You may find, that other guides are refering to old/obsolete tools, and thus will not work with current macOS. Also expect learning new things and spending several evenings trying. Compared to hackintosh, installing Linux on random hardware is a walk in the park.

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
> Also expect learning new things and spending several evenings trying. Compared to hackintosh, installing Linux on random hardware is a walk in the park. I've been a Hackintosh user for the past decade. I've not done it yet, but the next time I need to do a brand new Hackintosh setup, I'm planning on using ESXI. It seems perfect—you're getting very little performance loss in exchange for a setup which is (kind of) officially supported by Apple. Maybe when I actually do it, I'll discover some terrible downside, but it seems incredibly appealing.
- vetinari 7y ago
  I did my first hackintosh few days ago just for the learning experience, I have normal Macs otherwise. It does have a problem with flickering screen; I suspect it is due to 10-bits per pixel that I cannot switch from and the cheap HDMI2 cable used. Wrt ESXI - are you aware, that with ESXI you will lose local console (and all the GPU-goodness)? After ESXI boots, it has only text-mode notice, how to connect remotely and that's it. You will be stuck with remote access. For things like build machine or test-runner, that's fine, but if you want to run something interactive... well, let us know about the experience ;)
  - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
    I'm pretty sure I can do GPU passthrough? https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2018/09/using-gpus-with-virtual-machines-on-vsphere-part-2-vmdirectpath-i-o.html https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2018/09/using-gpus-with-virtua...
    - vetinari 7y ago
      Yeah, that's an option, too.

lasagnaphil 7y ago

Here: https://github.com/wmchris/DellXPS15-9550-OSX https://github.com/wmchris/DellXPS15-9550-OSX By the way, it doesn’t support discrete GPU, but Nvidia GPU performace in the XPS 15 is horrible due to heavy throttling anyway.