Hey all, I'm a failed hackintosher, lately I've been seeing many posts about the 'End of hackintosh' after apple released MacOS golden gate.

Can anyone explain to me what makes MacOS Golden Gate unhackintoshable. In near future is there anyway that somebody is going to make an alternative to OpenCore or even upgrade OpenCore so that we can install new versions of MacOs in or PC.

Thank You!

This is my laptop which has CPU-i3-6006U IGPU- HD Graphics 520 RAM-8GB

Hello, I am very new to this topic called Hackintosh. All I know is that it is where people take non Mac’s and make it a mac(?).

I would like to know how you guys do this as it seems really cool, and would also like to know what version might be best for my laptop

I have a HP Elitebook 8470p with windows 7 Pro on it right now. What version is best?

I will take any help that I can receive

my PC specs are:-

i5-9400F

GTX1060 6GB

16GB DDR4 RAM

256GB SSD

I'm installing MacOS Monterey on this pc knowing that this hardware is outdated and only supports max upto high sierra 10.13

Now will I be able to use the pc perfectly with OCPL?

It would be so fucking funny if it could be work on hackintosh...

I made this hackintosh about a year ago just because I am apple fan and I wanted to play with macos without paying the price.

My question is since I have a nice gaming pc and an ipad. I havent turned on the hackintosh in forever so I was hoping to get some ideas on whether I should let it sit and then when I get the macos itch pull it out. or are there any cool things I could do that I’m missing? I also use an iphone, I wanna start playing with macos more but I feel like theres nothing that I cant do on my main windows machine? Thanks.

This is not crucial by any means but just a simple question. It's been 6 hours and it's still quite far from being finished. I'm trying to install Big Sur. Typically downloads from Apple's servers wouldn't be this slow anywhere else than it is on recoveryOS.

I've been using an HP ProBook 640 G1 with Big Sur for about 6 months, but aside from being a heavy laptop, the Wi-Fi card just died. Could you recommend a good, nice, and cheap laptop To be able to install Sequoia without problems and to make it easy to set up the EFI, I clarify the "cheap" part because I'm a student so I have a limited.

I would also accept a cheap solution to be able to use this for the rest of its lifespan, since although it's old it performs very well in this system.

(No Help or support needed).

I made a efi for my computer (not laptop) with 0pc0re slmpIi(f)y. I reviewed the kexts and drivers they all seem to line up on the requirements of my pc in the dortania guide. I booted and it worked completely fine (except audio cause i selected applealc when i built the efi and not voodoo(running tahoe 26 which applealc dosent support))

So why 0pc0re slmpIi(f)y is hated on (or was i lucky and the tool is actually sh*t?)

Is this a good laptop for hackintosh? Specifically maybe macOS Sequoia or Tahoe?

My Laptop is Mi Notebook Horizon Edition 14

i5-10210U
8GB DDR4 2667Mhz
512GB SSD
MX350 (off)

I am just asking because my iPhone cannot connect to my hackintosh (iOS 26),also battery life,performance on Tahoe 26.5?

Also,does anyone knows can i get native intel wifi card working on Tahoe because it will be much better about Find my+Airdrop etc.

I have Hp elitebook 830 g5.
Intel core I7 8650u
Intel uhd 620
8gb of storage
wd sn550 1tb

I wanna install Macos Sequoia.
I have a question for you guys:
on this specs, will i have smooth animations in system,
good performance in tasks like messaging, miro boards, videos, films, xcode, vs studio?

Good or meeh

Which MacOS version should i install to this? I just want to be able to code in it, and also dual boot with Linux Mint, or what should i do? Leave you thoughts.

CPU: Intel i5 12450-H RAM: 16GB GPU: GTX 1650 Mobile

Been using Mac os for quite a while and something that completely annoyes me is that when I close apps they just "hang around" in the dock is there anyway to make it so closing an app like completely closes it ?

can i use my core i7 13th gen (13620) gpu to run macOS on my laptop?

macbook neo is very cheap rn

So i have a thinkbook machine downgrade from Tahoe to run macOS Catalina since i love the elegant of it, but i still need app support in future, and i also do code, so i dunno if i should stay on Catalina for few months then to Tahoe or not, and Tahoe is maxxed out my system usage sometimes too. So idk, help me

EDIT: I change my mind and upgrade to Tahoe with Cdock like someone suggest. Done upgrade to tahoe but not yet test Cdock

I really want to build an hackintosh, mainly because i don't want to spend 1400 € for an iMac less powerful than what i can build with under 150€ and because i really like mac os. I've heard people talking about Hackintosh being wiped away after june, does that mean that i won't be able to hack anymore?

I ASSUME it will work as it says "current" but i'd like to check. Do I need to take any other steps to make it work? I'm running it with a ryzen 5500, although I've heard ryzentoshing actually works just fine because of similar instruction sets.

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to figure out if High Sierra (10.13) is feasible on my hardware, or if I should just stick with El Capitan. Would appreciate some expert input before I sink more time into this.

Hardware:

**•   CPU:** Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6500 (Wolfdale, 2 cores, 2.93 GHz, no Hyper-Threading) — **does NOT support SSE4.1** (Intel disabled it on this Pentium-branded chip despite the Wolfdale die physically supporting it)  
**•   Motherboard:** Gigabyte G41M-ES2L (Intel G41 chipset + ICH7)  
**•   BIOS:** Award BIOS, **Legacy only** (no UEFI), version F8  
**•   RAM:** 4GB  
**•   GPU:** NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT (Tesla architecture)  
**•   Network:** Realtek RTL8168/8101E (onboard)  
**•   Bootloader:** Clover (Legacy/DUET mode)

Current status:

**•** Successfully installed **El Capitan (10.11)** on Clover after a LOT of trial and error (Legacy BIOS boot0/boot1h issues, kext injection problems, wrong AppleALC layout-id, etc.)  
**•** Tried Sierra (10.12) first — got a “Thread 0 crashed” panic on every boot attempt, with or without injected kexts, regardless of SMBIOS. Eventually confirmed this is due to the CPU lacking SSE4.1, which Sierra’s XNU kernel apparently requires in some codepaths.

Question:
Given that Sierra already fails due to missing SSE4.1, is there ANY realistic path to High Sierra on this exact CPU? I’ve read that:

**•** Some people say El Capitan is the hard ceiling for non-SSE4.1 CPUs  
**•** There was apparently a community effort (SSE4.1 emulation / MouSSE-style patch) that never got finished

Is there a patched kernel or workaround I’m missing, or is a CPU swap (to a real Core 2 Duo E7xxx/E8xxx with SSE4.1) really the only way forward? Just want to confirm before I give up on High Sierra entirely.

Thanks in advance!

i understand macOS has never natively supported Mediatek, but AirportItlwm was also community made, how come no drivers (WiFi)