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ah good to know. So at least never an AMD hackintosh for me. Are this problems completely gone with Intel hackintoshes?

by therealmarv 7y ago

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
There aren't any inherent problems with Docker, VMWare, Unity games, or Adobe apps on Intel Hackintosh machines, if that's what you mean. Apps just work, and when you do encounter a bug in some app, you can be quite confident it isn't because you're using Hackintosh. I expect AMD is always going to have some oddities because no AMD CPU has ever been used in a real Mac.
- therealmarv 7y ago
  Thanks for the information. I'm a SW developer but I also do semi-professional photo editing sometimes (so Docker, VMs and Adobe products needs to work for me). Now I know in which direction I need to look for!
- solarkraft 7y ago
  How is it even possible to make AMD hackintoshes? It seems a bit like magic to me because I'd expect that while the basic instruction set may be the same, there must be so many intel-specific extensions and differences in the details. Apparently I'm wrong about that, which is cool! ... But then again AMD laptops are almost impossible to hackintosh because of the integrated GPU not being supported, apparently.
  - sedatk 7y ago
    Similar differences exist between Intel generations too. They write code to handle missing features because of that. It may not take advantage of AMD-specific features though.
    - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
      Notably, Hackintosh also doesn’t work between Intel generations. I wanted to downgrade to 10.9, but my Skylake machine couldn’t run anything below 10.11. I had to build a new machine around a Haswell cpu and motherboard. Now, the Skylake machine was able to run 10.9 in VM. (And much older than 10.9—-I got Tiger to boot in VMWare, although it liked to randomly kernel panic. I don’t quite understand why VM’s are different in this regard.

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ah good to know. So at least never an AMD hackintosh for me. Are this problems completely gone with Intel hackintoshes?

by therealmarv 7y ago

ah good to know. So at least never an AMD hackintosh for me. Are this problems completely gone with Intel hackintoshes?

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
There aren't any inherent problems with Docker, VMWare, Unity games, or Adobe apps on Intel Hackintosh machines, if that's what you mean. Apps just work, and when you do encounter a bug in some app, you can be quite confident it isn't because you're using Hackintosh. I expect AMD is always going to have some oddities because no AMD CPU has ever been used in a real Mac.
- therealmarv 7y ago
  Thanks for the information. I'm a SW developer but I also do semi-professional photo editing sometimes (so Docker, VMs and Adobe products needs to work for me). Now I know in which direction I need to look for!
- solarkraft 7y ago
  How is it even possible to make AMD hackintoshes? It seems a bit like magic to me because I'd expect that while the basic instruction set may be the same, there must be so many intel-specific extensions and differences in the details. Apparently I'm wrong about that, which is cool! ... But then again AMD laptops are almost impossible to hackintosh because of the integrated GPU not being supported, apparently.
  - sedatk 7y ago
    Similar differences exist between Intel generations too. They write code to handle missing features because of that. It may not take advantage of AMD-specific features though.
    - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
      Notably, Hackintosh also doesn’t work between Intel generations. I wanted to downgrade to 10.9, but my Skylake machine couldn’t run anything below 10.11. I had to build a new machine around a Haswell cpu and motherboard. Now, the Skylake machine was able to run 10.9 in VM. (And much older than 10.9—-I got Tiger to boot in VMWare, although it liked to randomly kernel panic. I don’t quite understand why VM’s are different in this regard.