Second, the performance is simply night-and-day better than that of my iMac. That may seem a minor thing, but fan noise is incredibly irritating. First off, the machine is notably quieter than my iMac-none of my testing drove the fan noise higher than the background level, unlike my iMac. While there were (and still are) many challenges with my Hackintosh, I did manage to create a very nice gaming Mac. If you do it wrong, you probably boot to a black screen and may have to start all over. If you do it right, you gain functionality. The challenge lies in finding the right solution for your chosen hardware, then hopefully implementing it properly. Sure, there are theoretically solutions to all of these (and other) issues. In the end, it’s these additional steps that will try your patience if you’re building a Hackinotsh that you want to be your do-everything Mac. I needed to be able to play iTunes protected videos. I needed Apple’s native Messages support. And if your machine is a network server, like Kirk’s, that’s probably all you need.īut as I was trying to make my Hackintosh my every day Mac, I needed more. ![]() That point is “macOS is installed and it works.” You’ll probably have networking and onboard video and maybe you’ll get lucky and have sound, too. Kirk’s summary of the OS install is spot-on: It’s not plug and play, but getting macOS running isn’t overly difficult, to a point.
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