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The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us

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Submitted ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨elonmuskszahnbuerste@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/08/the-end-of-the-hackintosh-is-upon-us/

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The nice thing about the Hackintosh was the upgradability/repairability. Wishing Apple would bring some of that back.

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  • jasoman@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Was coming down the line ever since M1. I guess you could try with a arm hackintosh.

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    • naticus@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep, I know the writing was on the wall ever since they announced Silicon. While annoyed at the time, getting out from under Intel’s thumb was probably the right choice, and they’re way more powerful machines as a result. Still not a fan of Apple myself, but wanting to do it themselves is respectable.

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    • Vitaly@feddit.uk ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess you could also virtualize it through qemu on arm to get good compatability

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      • jasoman@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Just an idea. I still use win 11.

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    • const_void@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess you could try with an arm hackintosh.

      Impossible

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      • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why the downvotes? Apple silicon ARM is not the same ISA as any existing ARM. There’s extra undocumented instructions and features. Unless you want to reverse engineer all that, and make your own ARM CPU, you cannot run (all of) macOS on an off the shelf ARM chip. Making it effectively “impossible”.

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      • jasoman@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fair, I was not going to try.

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  • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Abandoned mine several years ago. Kind of a shame, they were a good option for a while for people who weren’t windows fans but didn’t want to run linux full time. Apple just doesn’t really have any offerings for people who want a desktop that’s upgradeable, but don’t want to drop the money on a Mac Pro.

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    • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The SSD in the M4 mini is upgradable, for those who aren’t aware.

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      • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s replaceable, it’s not upgradable.

        Apple doesn’t use standard NVMe M.2 drives. The controller is built into the SoC rather than being on the storage device itself.

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      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Is this a take in regards to soldering in new flash chips or replacing a board and then needing to wrestle Apple support during an RMA to replace a faulty component (because I quiet confidently believe, Apple will cross check your hardware with their records from the serial number).

        And I don’t believe regular PC manufacturers/OEMs are that hard to argue with if I insert my own SSD.

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  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One more reason to switch to Linux

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  • IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A Wine-like Hackintosh is coming

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    • percent@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s it called?

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You could have your cake and eat it too, which is to say that you could run the Mac version of Photoshop because that apparently mattered to some people. Now, all that’s over, so if you love weird modifier keys on your keyboard and a sleek, glassy operating system, you’ll have to pay the big bucks for Apple hardware again. The Hackintosh is dead.

    I find the modifier keys to be normal. I find the ending of this article to be weird.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can literally get that sleek glassy look on Linux too.

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      • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Why would I want that? I don’t even want it on my Mac.

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      • kittenzrulz123@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not in a straightforward or easy way (at least for new people)

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Best lil’ machine I ever had was a 10 inch Dell mini Hackintosh. Loved it, and got me through grad school .

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is there no way to get it to run on ARM systems? Are none of them powerful enough to be useful without being Macs?

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    • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      ARM isn’t plug-and-play like x86 (n.b. it could be, but no one does it outside of servers)

      You have to write a big JSON like file, called a DeviceTree, that describes exactly what is in the computer

      Unless Apple decides to support Hackintoshes, their OS won’t have devicetrees for other devices.

      You might be able to make your own and get the OS to read it, but it still has to be for a specific machine rather than generic like before

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      • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Give Apple‘s past, the most they will do is, at some future date, make macOS capable of reading custom JSON device tree files

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  • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’ve heard that one before…

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