Was coming down the line ever since M1. I guess you could try with a arm hackintosh.
The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us
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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jasoman@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
Vitaly@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
I guess you could also virtualize it through qemu on arm to get good compatability
jasoman@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Just an idea. I still use win 11.
const_void@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I guess you could try with an arm hackintosh.
Impossible
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”.
jasoman@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Fair, I was not going to try.
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.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
The SSD in the M4 mini is upgradable, for those who aren’t aware.
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.
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.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
One more reason to switch to Linux
IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
A Wine-like Hackintosh is coming
percent@infosec.pub 13 hours ago
What’s it called?
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.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
You can literally get that sleek glassy look on Linux too.
reddig33@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Why would I want that? I don’t even want it on my Mac.
kittenzrulz123@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Not in a straightforward or easy way (at least for new people)
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 .
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?
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
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
floo@retrolemmy.com 16 hours ago
Yeah, I’ve heard that one before…
reddig33@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The nice thing about the Hackintosh was the upgradability/repairability. Wishing Apple would bring some of that back.