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Hackintosh catalina7/26/2023 ![]() Most hackintoshes still out there are Clover builds.Īlso, the biggest 1st step is copying the bios settings to the tee. Getting a machine running on Clover will help you understand all the basics you need to to work with OpenCore later, (if you want to). OpenCore is definitely more robust, but Clover's more straightforward, and a good starting place if it's your first hackintosh. is an available serial number for the model mac you choose in SMBIOS.) You need to make sure you check that the serial number isn't registered, (i.e. Imessage/factime will work on any hackintosh as long you set up the SMBIOS section correctly. It doesn't matter if you use Clover or OpenCore, if the EFI folder isn't set correctly for your machine it just won't work. You have to have the EFI folder setup correctly. If by disk image you mean a drive clone that won't work. So if u thinking the disk image on specific hardware config will work. I know people like that’s stuff but others just want a working Apple computer w logic without spending Mac Pro money. Not have to deal w kext or flags or code. That way I just buy said hardware, download the image and load that image into an empty ssd and done. wtf is up w that?’Īnyways, what would be cool is just copy whatever hardware specs gets things running and get a disk image from someone who got it running. Have to give credit to Apple because even outside Hackintosh, even normal windows is just a hassle making things just work. I was thinking of maybe getting a gigabyte board to see if that helped but doubt it. There is always something and then something else. Missing a way to use iMessage, or usb 3 or Thunderbolt, or the Ethernet or the wireless. Tried every kext and flag and whatever thousand options there are to make it work. For what others worked didn’t work for me and vice versa. I was able to install sierrra but after restarted once and having issues, and troubleshooting I thought I was on the clear but next restart it got stuck again.Īnd it gets stuck for so many issues and troubleshooting is a hit or miss on what works. Might be because I have a X99 chip or an asrock mobo but it just gave way too many errors. I just threw the towel and gave up after a week of trying hackingtosh-ing. ![]() third-party devs stop providing updates), I can consider putting Win10 on here when that day comes, but it'll almost certainly be quite a ways off before I have to think about that, since Apple is still selling Intel Macs right now. If Intel Mac support starts dropping out sooner than expected in ways that affect my ability to work (i.e. This computer is super fast and I can rely on it, it has exactly the specs I wanted, I can upgrade it easily myself, and I paid around $1300 instead of $6000 for it. I feel much better about sticking on this 9900k hack for a while than I would about trying to navigate the software/hardware compatibility bloodbath of the first few years of ARM Macs. (The motherboard is the most crucial thing to match, generally!) I used this build guide, though I swapped in a more powerful CPU and a less powerful video card. I'm on a 9900k build that I put together last year, and before then I was on a 4790k hackintosh since 2014.
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