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| title | description | author |
|---|---|---|
| My hackintosh | how i scammed apple into thinking i paid for their stuff | maggie |
maggie, what the fuck are you talking about? what even IS a hackintosh?
a hackintosh is a consumer PC (traditionally made to run Windows.... ew.) hacked to run macOS, this used to paradoxically be the best way to run macOS in general, but this is no longer the case, since Apple is soon discontinuing x86 support in favor of their ARM chips.
how do you even do this, are there any obstacles?
actually, yes. you obviously can't use grub to just boot macOS, you need a special bootloader (nowadays you use Opencore, a fork of rEFInd, but Clover and Chameleon were used in the past).
and.... is that it?
no. you obviously need to install kexts (kernel extensions) for your hardware, you also need somewhat specific hardware, like an AMD GPU, ideally an Intel CPU (though AMD is very possible, it just comes with a lot of issues and tears). you also need to edit a huuuuuge config file with all sorts of system specific information, it's a lot of work, took me about two days or so, but i feel it was worth it
are there any limits to what you can do with a hackintosh compared to the real thing?
well, it depends on if you're on AMD or Intel, if you're on AMD, you can't use the hypervisor (for example), since that depends on the Intel instructions. if you have an Intel CPU, you're pretty much good, everything should work provided your hardware is compatible.
sounds cool and all, but why would you even put so much energy into this?
there's a couple of things that made me want to do it
- curiosity
- i wanted to use the apple office tools
- better music production
- certain exclusive programs
