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The switch to ARM was essentially the end of the Hackintoshes because running macOS on QEMU or similar will be unbearably slow. The T2 chip isn't a hindrance.
by nly 5y ago
The switch to ARM was essentially the end of the Hackintoshes because running macOS on QEMU or similar will be unbearably slow.
The T2 chip isn't a hindrance. If you can get hold of macOS itself then you can crack it to bypass any software checks. It's just bytes on your SSD after all, and you're free to change all of them. These chips only matter for Apple services like iCloud, iMessage the app store etc. All offline uses can and could be cracked.
- sneak 5y ago> All offline uses can and could be cracked. Sure, but that's a significant amount of work; AIUI macOS/amd64 works pretty much out of the box with minimal tweaks to DSMOS. If it uses cryptographic protections (say, decrypting the kernel) added to T2 firmware, this becomes a lot more of a hassle to build a macOS distribution that runs without a T2. In any case, this is a polar bear on an iceberg: in a relatively short while, Apple won't be shipping anything intel, and a few years after that macOS will be ARM-only.