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Do these rigs break down with Apple patches or the like? Can I reasonably expect a setup now to work 5 years from now?

by m0th87 12y ago

Washuu 12y ago
As long as a standard accepted configuration is used stuff tends to "just work". I have my Hackintosh identified as a MacPro3,1. Standards OS X maintenance releases upgrade just fine. I try to be careful with full OS upgrades which usually just involves waiting a month or so to see what problems people run into. Though, I do that even with official Apple hardware because inevitably there is some issue with official Apple hardware or software that ends up screwing me until fixes are pushed out. The only reason the hardware would stop working is if Apple drops the similar official hardware as being supported in a new release such as when they dropped 32-bit EFI support.
rickyc091 12y ago
It depends on the patch. If they introduce a patch to fix something say bluetooth or wifi, that patch could very well break it. If it breaks, you might have to hack it again to resolve the issues. Having a hackintosh myself, I think it's easier to just buy a mac and not worry about it. If you love tinkering / you have the time to deal with it, then by all means.
matthew-wegner 12y ago
I've been running a hack desktop as my main rig for a few years (10.7 -> 10.8 -> 10.9 -> 10.10). My hardware setup only requires a single 3rd-party kext (for networking), so it holds up super well with updates. I can patch dot releases with no trouble, and only need to do a full USB key install for major releases. I went hackintosh when the Mac Pro line had become stale. Today I would probably just suck it up and get a real Mac Pro if I was in the market for a new machine, to be honest. I've spent a lot of time on the initial setup and failed experiments and iMessage trouble and things. (Now I run my setup with a cloned serial/ROM/MLB/etc values from one of my real Macs that I took off iCloud, which solved all of my iMessage related troubles apparently permanently).

Do these rigs break down with Apple patches or the like? Can I reasonably expect a setup now to work 5 years from now?

by m0th87 12y ago

Do these rigs break down with Apple patches or the like? Can I reasonably expect a setup now to work 5 years from now?

As long as a standard accepted configuration is used stuff tends to "just work". I have my Hackintosh identified as a MacPro3,1. Standards OS X maintenance releases upgrade just fine. I try to be careful with full OS upgrades which usually just involves waiting a month or so to see what problems people run into. Though, I do that even with official Apple hardware because inevitably there is some issue with official Apple hardware or software that ends up screwing me until fixes are pushed out. The only reason the hardware would stop working is if Apple drops the similar official hardware as being supported in a new release such as when they dropped 32-bit EFI support.

rickyc091 12y ago

It depends on the patch. If they introduce a patch to fix something say bluetooth or wifi, that patch could very well break it. If it breaks, you might have to hack it again to resolve the issues. Having a hackintosh myself, I think it's easier to just buy a mac and not worry about it. If you love tinkering / you have the time to deal with it, then by all means.

matthew-wegner 12y ago

I've been running a hack desktop as my main rig for a few years (10.7 -> 10.8 -> 10.9 -> 10.10). My hardware setup only requires a single 3rd-party kext (for networking), so it holds up super well with updates. I can patch dot releases with no trouble, and only need to do a full USB key install for major releases. I went hackintosh when the Mac Pro line had become stale. Today I would probably just suck it up and get a real Mac Pro if I was in the market for a new machine, to be honest. I've spent a lot of time on the initial setup and failed experiments and iMessage trouble and things. (Now I run my setup with a cloned serial/ROM/MLB/etc values from one of my real Macs that I took off iCloud, which solved all of my iMessage related troubles apparently permanently).