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I'm not the person you replied to but I've used hackintoshes since the Snow Leopard days. Generally if you set it up properly as was described at the beginning

I'm not the person you replied to but I've used hackintoshes since the Snow Leopard days. Generally if you set it up properly as was described at the beginning of this thread minor updates will work fine without any user input. Some major updates will be the same, with others you might end up needing to change some kexts to fix audio or wifi but it'll generally boot. With major updates that change a lot you might be better off backing up your data and doing a fresh install. So far all versions have become hackable (generally in a matter of days or weeks) but with Apple's transition to their own silicon I imagine the last version they put out that supports x86_64 will be the final hackintoshable build.

als0 6y ago
I wonder how soon we'll see ARM64 based Hackintosh builds. Like on a Raspberry Pi 4 or one of those ThunderX2 workstations.
- sneak 6y ago
  I anticipate that ARM macOS will not run at all on systems without Apple Silicon (as they are calling it) and never will. I assume these systems will have the proprietary secure enclave on-die, which would be missing from all other ARM systems. Hopefully I am wrong.
  - Wowfunhappy 6y ago
    I agree. No one has ever managed to get iOS on non-Apple hardware†, and I don't see why ARM macOS would be any different. † Except maybe Correllium, which was a large commercial effort. Since they don't make any details public, I'm not clear if Correllium just built a sort of emulator or if they actually have the OS running "natively" on 3rd party hardware.
    - comex 6y ago
      It’s using hardware virtualization for the CPU, but emulating peripherals, similar to your average VM software.
    - unilock 6y ago
      The Darwin on ARM Project[1] attempted just that. It depends on what you mean by "iOS" if you want to say they accomplished it - for example, they got XNU, the kernel, running on a Nokia N900, but they never got a UI up and running (only single-user mode). [1] https://github.com/darwin-on-arm https://github.com/darwin-on-arm
  - als0 6y ago
    Well Mac OS X never could run on AMD CPUs and yet the Hackintosh community patched parts of it to get it to run.

als0 6y ago

I wonder how soon we'll see ARM64 based Hackintosh builds. Like on a Raspberry Pi 4 or one of those ThunderX2 workstations.

sneak 6y ago
I anticipate that ARM macOS will not run at all on systems without Apple Silicon (as they are calling it) and never will. I assume these systems will have the proprietary secure enclave on-die, which would be missing from all other ARM systems. Hopefully I am wrong.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  I agree. No one has ever managed to get iOS on non-Apple hardware†, and I don't see why ARM macOS would be any different. † Except maybe Correllium, which was a large commercial effort. Since they don't make any details public, I'm not clear if Correllium just built a sort of emulator or if they actually have the OS running "natively" on 3rd party hardware.
  - comex 6y ago
    It’s using hardware virtualization for the CPU, but emulating peripherals, similar to your average VM software.
  - unilock 6y ago
    The Darwin on ARM Project[1] attempted just that. It depends on what you mean by "iOS" if you want to say they accomplished it - for example, they got XNU, the kernel, running on a Nokia N900, but they never got a UI up and running (only single-user mode). [1] https://github.com/darwin-on-arm https://github.com/darwin-on-arm
- als0 6y ago
  Well Mac OS X never could run on AMD CPUs and yet the Hackintosh community patched parts of it to get it to run.