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 This is all out of date, and is currently being revised! Just read the last few pages of the thread, it'll be much more helpful for you. What is this? A Hackintosh is a non-Apple computer that has OS X installed. Is this legal? Yes, it is a bit legally dubious. No, there are not going to be SWAT teams busting down your door. Be smart, buy your copy of OS X, don't sell the computer with OS X on it or try to sell computers with OS X on them. Can I use it as my everyday computer? Yes! If installed correctly, it will be just as stable as a real Mac once it gets up and running. Can I run OS X on my 33MHz 386 with 8MB of ram? No. What are the minimum requirements? Anything Merom or newer from Intel will work, but a Sandy Bridge chip is strongly recommended. Can I use a Atom/AMD/Cyrix processor? No. It is vaguely possible, but I don't recommend it in the least. Can I make a hackintosh out of a laptop? Yes, but tread with caution. Google your model and find out if others have had success. If you can't find anything, post its specs in here, and one of us can probably tell you if it is worth trying. How do I make one? There are a few different methods, depending on your computer.  Tonymacx86 is a pile of poo poo that has stolen from a huge number of people in the hackintosh community, don't use his software and especially don't use his links to buy his recommended hardware because they make him money, although the lists themselves are pretty good. Important corollary: Multibeast is pretty good for the new hackintosher, just don't use the first two options, only install drivers. I want one, what hardware should I buy? I recommend looking at any Gigabyte board from the latest generation of Intel chipset. For video cards, get a nVidia GT640 or greater or a GTX760 or greater. Can I overclock? Yes. I run a 4.5GHz Sandy Bridge chip on my main rig with no issues. You need a custom SSDT. This is the most understandable guide I have seen on SSDT editing. I see these things called distros on torrent sites. Should I use one? No! They are  , and usually sloppily done hacks made by some 16 year old kid in Russia somewhere.How do I make a hackintosh without a real Mac? It can't be done. Borrow a real mac from a friend. Last Edit 6-7-15: Preparing for revamp for the Clover/Yosemite World of Tomorrow. Sinestro fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jun 8, 2015 |
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I've installed it, so what?Experto Crede posted:
My audio doesn't work! Google your motherboard. If it doesn't work, post here with what motherboard you have. In all likelihood, we will tell you to buy a Creative X-Fi Go! Pro. My wifi doesn't work! The only wireless chipsets that I would recommend for a hackintosh is a mini PCI-e card from a real Macbook. The App Store/Facetime/iCloud doesn't work! You need a smbios.plist. Use Chameleon Wizard to make one based on the mac that is the most similar to your computer. Sleep doesn't work! You need a custom DSDT. Google your motherboard's name to find one if it exists. Can I update my hackintosh? You should reinstall between each major version of OS X, and check in here before installing any update to OS X itself. Install iTunes and other non-OS X updates with wild abandon. Even if we say it is OK, use SuperDuper's free version to back up your poo poo!
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The current Hackintosh Thread Recommended Builds: Mini-ITX CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C14 CPU Cooler Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87N-WIFI Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB 2.5" Solid State Disk Storage: Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB Video Card Case: Silverstone SST-FT03B-MINI (Black) Mini ITX Tower Case Power Supply: Silverstone 450W 80+ Bronze Certified SFX Power Supply Total: $1266.11 Sinestro fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Feb 15, 2014 |
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SourKraut posted:So what's the difference between this thread and the other Hackintosh thread? The other thread appears to still be open/etc. The old one is pretty much full of out of date to very out of date info. I've emailed Star War Sex Parrot about it, he told me to make a new thread, and I've emailed him to close the old one, but I don't have PMs.
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akadajet posted:But it works well, it's always up to date, and his forums are friendly and good. What are you actually mad about? What do you think he stole? http://prasys.info/2011/01/tonymac-seriously/ http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/278907-permanently-banned-from-tonymacx86/ http://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/17zh08/hypocrisy_thy_name_is_tonymacx86/c8a92p8 http://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/17zh08/hypocrisy_thy_name_is_tonymacx86/c8cz4kt
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I honestly don't think Unibwast beats myHack. Multibeast is pretty  , though.
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Computer viking posted:I still think it's odd that Apple doesn't use the centrino wifi cards in their laptops - I'm sure intel would be happy to give them some package deal. I run OS X on my T420s, and there's a lot of different sites where people will make a modified BIOS that ignores the whitelist. On Thinkpads, it is as simple as changing one byte. chupacabraTERROR posted:Anyone running on a haswell machine yet? I hear 10.8.5 supports it, so I'm using windows in the meantime. Another 10.8.5 beta was released today, anyone tried it? I've set up a Haswell hackintosh for a friend. I would recommend 10.9 as I stated in the OP, it is as stable as ML was on my system, and it is easier to make the installer vs. a beta revision of ML. Craptacular! posted:Most guides found on InsanelyMac, MacBreaker and elsewhere suggest people use Unibeast/Multibeast. I don't think anyone is saying you should give Tony money, but the thread should not take a You're right about Multibeast. Multibeast is a great piece of software, as long as you don't use the actual "post-install" part, and simply use it as a kext repository. myHack is better than Unibeast because it allows you to use beta software, doesn't have shitloads of bullshit "anti-piracy" checks, and allows you to set it up with a custom Extra folder if you already have Chameleon set up correctly with a DSDT and/or don't need the full suite of kexts that it typically installs/need extra kexts, like AppleIntelE1000e, which I can bundle into my Extra folder from install to get a perfect install right off of the stick. Sinestro fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jul 11, 2013 |
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LET ME TELL YOU WHY YOU SHOULD USE DIFFERENT LOADERS
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Yeah, it works pretty much perfectly. All you need is FakeSMC.kext and the latest SVN build of Chameleon.
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OS X won't set your CPU's multiplier to the overclocked speeds unless you have a SSDT. You will need a SMBIOS to get iCloud et al. working, though. I used the latest 27" iMac for the system definition.
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muckswirler posted:I'm trying to decide on an i7 laptop to hackintoshisize. Is anybody currently using a model that they like? 15" would be good. I'm thinkng an Inspiron of some persuasion, but it's tough to decide. This will be my third lappy that I've converted so I'm not a total noob. My finger keeps hovering over the buy button for a MacBook and I can't take it anymore. Buy a MacBook. Even with the best hackintosh laptops, you are only looking at 2h of battery life.
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The issue with permissions is two-fold: who owns the file (its owner), and what can different kinds of people do with it (its mode). A file is owned by a user and a group. Kexts must have a owner of root:staff, which means that they are owned by the user root and the group staff. Kexts must have a mode of drwxr-xr-x. The first triplet defines the owning user's permissions: they can read, write, and execute the kext. The owning group and every other user shares the same permissions: they can read and execute the kext. In Unix-based systems, this is also referred as 755 permissions.
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OS X doesn't control that. It will only tell you about the speed up to a certain point, but what your POST screen shows should be the actual speed.
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Netkas is the guy to look to for AMD graphics on OS X. To answer your question, 10.8.3 or newer should have support OOB.
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I have had less issues with Mavericks then I have had with ML or any other version of OS X, and I've been doing this since 10.5 was brand new. I seriously can't think of a single Mavericks specific issue I've encountered. It's a "developer preview", but it has less problems than any full release of Windows or Linux I've ever used. If you use myHack, it is no more difficult than any other version of OS X to install. There's a reason I recommend it in the OP.
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Attach your credit card to the Apple ID. I don't know why, but it worked for me.
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One is fine.
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You need a SMBIOS.
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Not having a SMBIOS can cause all sort of issues. I know it made my SSD a lot faster when I switched it to a Mac offered with a SSD.
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I'd recommend a cheap nVidia card.
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~Coxy posted:I believe it's nothing to do with Gigabyte per se, merely that they tend to have the same ethernet and audio devices as real Macs do.  The power management "stuff" on Gigabyte boards is set up in the same way as a real mac. It is possible to change this with a modded BIOS on other motherboards, though, but the only ones with an available patcher are the P8* line from ASUS.
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I'm knowledgeable about such things, why don't you send me one and I'll get it working.
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I've been running Mavericks on my daily rig since a few hours after the DP was released. It's fine.
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Dual boot on the main machine. Unless your time working is worth fractions of a penny per hour, just buy a cheap hard drive and use it on what would be an excellently supported machine versus struggling with a VM or a laptop.
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Chameleon can inject kexts in its boot2. This is how no-kext-on-/ builds work, with Chameleon + kexts on the little System partition Disk Utility will make when partitioning.
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mod sassinator posted:I'm thinking of going the hackintosh route so I can have Mac, Windows, and Linux all on one machine for various development and testing needs. The tonymac guide mentions a specific SanDisk SSD with a Sandforce-based controller because it doesn't need native trim support in the OS. Will any Sandforce-based SSD work just as well? I have a Corsair Force GT SSD I'd like to reuse and am curious if I should be concerned about trim support. You can do it on a real mac with rEFInd. I know because I have done it before.
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You can make not-ripoff Chameleon look just as good or better, it just takes about 5 seconds of effort with a program like Chameleon Wizard or Champlist.
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Have you tried a patched AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement kext yet?
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That depends on the board. Before I got my latest rig, I had a P8P67 Pro that I ran OS X on and it worked quite well. It's not as well supported, but you can actually get patched BIOSes that improve compatibility. But that shouldn't be necessary, just an improvement.
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Fano posted:Any help is appreciated. Don't. That's the only advice that I can give. OS X wants particular hardware, and the only VM software that does the right fuckery to get a non-unusuably awful experience out of OS X VMs are only for OS X hosts. I mean, if you're a programmer, you should have the level of technical competence required to set up a dual booting system. If you post your actual machine's specs, we can (potentially) help you. But I'd suggest looking into dropping the class if you aren't able to get a real mac or at least use hardware that is wellsuited to what you want.
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That desktop will be pretty much perfect. Modern Intel with nVidia graphics is pretty much the requirements for a good experience. I mean, ATi cards work, but not as well, and not as uniformly. You'll need to borrow a mac from a friend or something, as I assume that you won't have the privileges required to make the bootable USB stick that you'll need to install. I'm a little bit out of the game as of late, because I haven't needed to do a complete reinstall lately, Unibeast is unfortunately what I would recommend for those not ready to make their bootsticks by hand, and comes with an guide online on how to use it. I can't give more advice without specific hardware details on your desktop.
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Your problem seems to be that your computer is lovely and old, and runs like an old lovely computer. May I suggest buying a new, not-lovely one?
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Installing Yosemite, clean install, with UniBeast only boots correctly once (requiring GraphicsEnabler=Yes.) If I try to boot it again, regardless of whether I've used MultiBeast with a custom DSDT, the progress bar creeps up very slowly then stops exactly halfway through. What's going on? We need verbose boot information.
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death pip posted:Sorry for the total newbie question - I've never tried to make a hackintosh before cos I haven't had a PC in years, but I've just bought the parts to assemble a silly gaming computer and I was wondering if someone could glance over this list of parts and see if there's any red flags that might prevent me from being able to install OSX? I think it's all pretty standard stuff: death pip posted:Sorry for the total newbie question - I've never tried to make a hackintosh before cos I haven't had a PC in years, but I've just bought the parts to assemble a silly gaming computer and I was wondering if someone could glance over this list of parts and see if there's any red flags that might prevent me from being able to install OSX? I think it's all pretty standard stuff: I'd personally get a better power supply, but that's just me. The motherboard will be a bit of an issue; it's quite unpleasant trying to run on a board without a fully RW set of ACPI power tables, and only Gigabyte boards offer that.
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Thanks so much for the help here, enMTW! I've been really busy with life/school, and I haven't even been able to update my personal machine to Yosemite, much less this thread. I'll be taking your updated post and editing it a bit, should be in the OP of this thread sometime tonight if that's okay. I've finally got some free time in the last few days, and I've actually been working on updating the installation instructions as I work out getting my own Hackintosh updated, but more help is certainly welcome from you with that. It'd be really great if you could take the BBCode for that and put it up on pastie or something, so that I can use it without having to redo all the formatting.
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I wasn't talking about using yours wholesale, but definitely taking inspiration from it in the sections about the whole post-Chameleon world, because I know fairly little about it. And, when/if I do use stuff that's partly yours, you can PM me or email me at SA<My user name>@gmail.com if you've got a change you want me to make. Edit: I put a note at the top of the OP about a pending revamp. Sinestro fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Jun 8, 2015 |
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That sounds very good and equitable to me. Hackintosh Thread 2015 nears. 
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Experto Crede posted:
There's the glossary, and it looks quite good. As soon as my internet connection is back and I'm not on my phone, I'll make the new thread. Edit: http://pastie.org/private/d9wszbvpeooanmavzcag Sinestro fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jun 8, 2015 |
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I'm doing the same, because I enjoy living dangerously.
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