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The Definitive Hackintosh topic
  • artiswarartiswar

    I'm sure someone out there has a behemoth to show off. I'm in the process of building and Ivy Bridge Quad-core with 32gb of RAM, SSD boot drive, and newer NVIDIA card. All for a bit over $1000. Super stoked.

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  • kurthkurth

    Looks like hackintoshes will be killed off with the arm processors. Good thing there's a big source of pirated mac intel-based programs already available for us luddites.

  • jleojleo

    @flash you may need to use catalina patcher and use a different video card

    http://dosdude1.com/catalina/

  • flashflash

    Hi, I have a Macpro 2009 4.1 updated to 5.1 with High Sierra (gpu 1080Ti) I would like to install Mojave or Catalina.

    Will I loose my 1080Ti gpu capabilities with Davinci Resolve ?

    Do I need another card ?

    What is the easiest way to install Mojave or Catalina ?

  • CFreakCFreak

    FWIW, I thought I'd mention, a few months ago the "Ryzentosh" had some issues using Adobe software. IDK the current situation at the moment.

  • jleojleo

    lots of videos on hackintosh for $100 minipcs to Ryzen 9 CPUS

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Hard days coming.

    and from comment

    Regarding the T2 chip, we’ve gotten around this issue somewhat by having the SMC chip, which is emulated by the T2 chip, ready for use within VirtualSMC(a kext that currently emulates 2012-2015 SMC chips). It’s currently not in use but we have it on stand by in case it’s needed for when non-T2 chip Macs are dropped.

    And with the release of Mojave, a lot of hardware support was dropped including both GPUs(many legacy and those that are reliant on WebDrivers) and many wireless cards. The second one is a bigger issue because Apple’s wireless chipsets have also gone completely propriety starting with the iMac19,1 and 2018 MacBook Pros. This would mean that Apple could also kill wireless networking for us.

    Regarding audio, all MacBookPro15,x and newer have their audio handled by the T2 chip. This means that HDEF audio is only used with HDMI potentially screwing up future audio patches for Hackintoshes.

    And the final part is that Apple has been planning on killing the part of XNU that Clover, the most popular boot loader, uses to load kexts into macOS. Luckily we’ve thought ahead for this as well as we’ve got a new boot loader called OpenCore that behaves much more like a real Mac. This makes it both harder for apple to patch out support since they would have to completely redesign the XNU kernel and harder for them to place any protection in the meantime thanks to this new boot loader loading kexts at the prelinking phase instead of rooting phase

  • robertGLrobertGL

    @CFreak agreed

  • CFreakCFreak

    @MikeLinn @all Linus/his employee have to go through so many hoops to get it to run, be aware many of the steps are Hackintosh steps. It's just easier to run a Hackintosh than what Linus Tech Tips is proposing, and, Linus actually bashes the Hackintosh project, whose software he is using. -That brings him down a few notches in my book. This video is basically click-bait.

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  • jleojleo

    Top 10 Best Laptops For Hackintosh 2018

    https://blazinglist.com/top-10-best-laptops-hackintosh-2015/

  • mikomiko

    Thanks @Bernie and @nomad

  • nomadnomad

    Regarding eGPUs, you should find a lot of answers here: egpu.io

  • BernieBernie

    There are Dell XPS and Lenovo yoga models that have 2xTB3 ports that might be worth looking into on the hackintosh forums.

    I'm waiting on a z370 or z390 mini ITX with 2 TB3 ports or a TB header for an add in card, if it ever gets made ...

  • mikomiko

    Someone using a hackintosh laptop? It is possible to use some laptop with eGpu through the thunderbolt 3?

  • PsycoPsyco

    I really hope Nvidia will release this new drivers for OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) as well - I really want to avoid Sierra by all means.

  • CFreakCFreak

    That's great news, thanks @Vitaliy_Kiselev !!!

    Requires update to latest versions of Sierra OS and Clover.

    More info here: https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/special/nvidia-pascal-graphics-cards

    and here: https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/solved-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-1070.192399/page-219

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    NVidia quietly posted beta macOS drivers that should support any GeForce 10-series card, whether it's a simple GTX 1050 or an all-out beast like the Titan Xp

    https://images.nvidia.com/mac/pkg/378/WebDriver-378.05.05.05f01.pkg

  • alcomposeralcomposer

    @jaycass you may need 10.10 for the 290. Get the public beta to test it out.

    As a general rule if you want boot screens with an ATI you will need a GOP UEFI VBIOS.

    But then again sometimes it's cool to blind boot. But things do boot faster in UEFI land.

    Most manufacturers can supply them to you if you send in your current VBIOS. You can easily save it to your hdd by using clover -yet another great Russian software engineer!

    Cheers Al

  • matt_gh2matt_gh2

    Thanks @tinyrobot - sounds like good advice.

  • tinyrobottinyrobot

    You can run Premiere Pro on OSX so why dual boot? I dual boot also but eventually will ween myself away from Windows if OSX stays stable. You only complicate with dual boot.

  • matt_gh2matt_gh2

    @dtr I'll take a look at tonymacx86 site - thanks. If I can get my Windows 7 PC laptop to work as a Hackintosh, does that it I can run it BOTH in Mac OSX or Windows OS...like today I do Premiere in Windows OS and tomorrow I do Final Cut Pro in Mac OSX? Thanks

  • jaycassjaycass

    Hi just a quick question does any one know if amd radeon r9 290 graphic card works with hackintosh

  • dtrdtr

    Laptops are tricky as you don't get to choose components as freely as in desktops. I think that even the most compatible laptops don't have their dedicated graphics cards working, only integrated Intel HDx000 stuff. Resource sites like tonymacx86 have sections for laptops where you can find guides etc.

  • matt_gh2matt_gh2

    Does anyone know if you can take a Windows 7 laptop (quad core 2.2 ghz, 16 gb ram) and use it for both PC as well as Mac. I currently run Adobe Premiere, Audition, Speedgrade, and After Effects on it as regular PC, but I would like to also run FCPX and/or FCP7 on it. Can this be setup so I can use it as a Mac to run FCP on some days, and other days use it as PC to run my Adobe software?

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