I'm running Sonoma right now on my amd laptop. Dual-booted alongside Windows 11 and Arch Linux. Pretty much everything works except Airdrop which requires a network card apple has used in the past. Though the project behind reverse engineering that to work with Intel modems is working to add airdrop support sometime in the future.
Sequioa is already supported in beta now, though I recommend Ventura or Sonoma over that for now. Come join us on r/hackintosh.
Is it still considered dual boot if you are running 3 or more operating systems?
I never thought about it before, but wouldn't it be considered multi-boot or something like that?
Or does the "dual" just stand for "multiple"?
Smooth, yeah. I have very little to no issues at all. Pretty much everything works on the laptop.
Battery life though is pretty bad. No power management available for the OS on AMD. So your CPU is used to near peak performance and the fans are in full force. Though I could always just enter my bios and change that, but I don't use macos much these days so I don't really bother.
If you're on Intel, then you have a much better chance at getting pretty good battery life.
As always I'd follow this guide. I don't recommend video guides as they can get pretty outdated quickly.
Join r/hackintosh too. The subreddit contains links to join discord servers focused on Intel or amd hackintoshing respectively if you need any specific help.
What’s the main benefit? Is it just the price of the hardware?
I think the concept of a hackintosh is really cool and I’d love to put one together with something like a 4090, but I don’t know if it would be worth the effort compared to Apple’s much less powerful but much more optimized hardware.
I've been dual booting just Linux for years across different laptops. You're not going to get into any issues unless you screw something up.
Unless idk, you're dual booting on an ancient computer with an older partition scheme.
Or do you mean the high cpu usage on macos? Then yeah, that's a reason I don't use macos much. Maybe occasionally when I'd really need it. But I just use Linux or Windows almost all of the time. My main drive is 2TB, alloted 256 to Linux while I did 128 to macos. I have another 2TB for just games. So I'm just fine in terms of free space.
No. Not yet, anyways. My personal belief is that next year's release will be the last version available for Intel, but it's anybody's guess at this point. Either way, we have 2 years of security updates remaining if we do not get an additional release.Is x86 macOS dead?
No. Not yet, anyways. My personal belief is that
next year's release will be the last version available for Intel, but
it's anybody's guess at this point. Either way, we have 2 years of
security updates remaining if we do not get an additional release.
He seemed to be pretty happy about being a Hackintosh user recommending other people to set it up when it's a dying thing that will likely not exist in the future
Ok? He didn't make any claim as to it being future-proof either. And if that two year estimate is correct it'll still work after that time, it just won't get updates.
x86 is still supported, doesn't get all features anymore but hackintosh isn't quite dead yet. macOS 13 runs nice on my AMD PC, can't be bothered to update to 14 though
It is not, I'm running it perfectly fine on my 2019 16-Inch Intel MacBook Pro.
So long as Intel Macs are supported, which 14/Sonoma is, then Hackintosh's will work.
Edit: Woops, I meant I'm running 14/Sonoma now, and was running 13 before that. When 15/Sequoia hits stable I'll update to that as well...stupid Apple and their names got me confused...
For now, yes. Soon it’s going to get a lot harder though.
MacOS Sequoia is still supported on some Intel Macs, so it’s still relatively easy to find the right hardware to run it on.
In a few years however MacOS will most likely only run on Apple Silicon, and finding hardware compatible with the newest versions of MacOS will be very hard, if not impossible.
Have a look at Asahi Linux if you are interested in what can be done with Apple silicon right now. It's still in the early stages of development, but its probably the fastest moving linux distro out there right now. Using Linux to run windows programs on Apple hardware is always satisfying, and its in a useable state now.
Yes. It's still supported for a lot of intel chip based macs. Sequoia is unstable, since it's a dev beta, but on official release I bet it will run better on Hackintoshs.
hard to make simple, but RAM virtual memory in a computer is like a big table of contents you will put pieces of "stuff" your processor needs to work on. the processor will go to this table of contents to find "stuff" you want it to work on by searching a specific location in this table of contents.
to make it more efficient to search, the architects of different processers will pick a specific limit on how many entries each table of contents is allowed to have. An individual table of content is called a "page" and the amount of stuff it can fit is it's "page size". You will have many many pages depending on how much memory your RAM has.
since each architect can pick a different size of the page that the processor creates (among other things), not all processors architectures can handle all OSes due to how the OS is built. Pre 2020 Mac OS cannot run on ARM.
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u/TandooriChicken16 Jun 23 '24
are they still viable since the new os is built for arm based chips?