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Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by harrygeez »

kuon wrote: post #169

I have been using a similar (a bit lower specs) hackintosh for 2 years. About two weeks ago, I decided to stop and look elsewhere. I started a small serie on my experience if you are interested: https://medium.com/the-missing-bit/leaving-macos-part-1-moti... I am still testing my current setup, but I guess I'll soon publish the last bit, with the setup I found and my conclusions on the switch.

> FUCKING FULL SCREEN MODE WHEN THE GREEN BUTTON IS CLICKED

Man this is so me when I updated to El Capitan. What is Apple thinking??? Now I have to hold alt just to increase my window size. At least give us an option to change it! How hard is that, Apple?

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by adar »

bluedino wrote: post #79

>> Maybe Apple have been waiting for the recently released Ryzen CPUs from AMD? You can't even run the stock kernel on AMD chips. How much QA and other work Apple would have to do, I have no idea.

The crew over at amd-osx.com figured it out, can't imagine it'd be much more difficult for Apple to do so.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by crazy5sheep »

a bit off topic. NVIDIA driver for mac is kind of suck. the bug, which showing a transparent window whenever you try to open an epub file with ibook.app, is been there for a very long time, and still no fix yet.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by ribfeast »

nottorp wrote: post #54

Problem is, Apple doesn't have anything for power users or developers right now. I'm currently hackintoshing, but with every "dumb it down" decision (like remove the battery life time estimation), hardware mishap (LG monitors not working near wifi, come on) or new hardware announcement that still doesn't serve my demographic i wonder if i shouldn't just switch back to Linux. I used to say that their laptops are fine,…

I always thought this on Windows-- the Linux subsystem is weak and I won't be happy with it until Windows is developed on a UNIX kernel, i.e., never. So then I switch to some distro with Gnome3 because it's cool and that's where the problems start.

HiDPI support has been garbage for at least 2 years. I'll get scaling and resolutions right for my XPS13 QHD, and then I'll plug in a 1080 monitor and it goes back to looking like crap. The sound goes out unless I cold boot twice. Then I need to use Wine to run Photoshop in a barely legible font size because hidpi scaling won't work. God help you if you want to manually configure your display manager, as you'll end up with an unusable display and hours of SO on your hands.

That's not to mention the ton of visual and "feel" issues behind using even Pantheon/eOS, which feels like a fork of OS 10.5.

I recently built my own hackintosh and am quite happy with it. I do all my work on the Mac with integrated graphics (don't need a GPU, which is great because the Nvidia web drivers are indeed terrible) and switch to Windows for games. Couldn't be more pleased.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by dawnerd »

wingworks wrote: post #213
nottorp wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the record, I've been using Linux as my main OS for 10 years when I finally decided to switch to OS X about 4 years ago. I have no problem switching back if Apple stops offering me enough flexibility. After all, you don't need to recompile your kernel to install drivers any more :)

You don't need to deal with drivers period on MacOS. I use Linux every day as a server, and have tried a few times to use it as a desktop platform, but never last longer than a few hours. (I'm a graphics person)

My HP printer begs to differ. Wouldn't show up on my mac until I installed their garbage software. On my ubuntu desktop, it works right away without any fiddling. Graphics, on the other hand, are definitely pretty finicky, especially HiDPI

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by OD_ »

coldtea wrote: post #163
izacus wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm, you're implying that everyone that bought a new iMac appreciates the thinness and bought it because of that? Or perhaps they bought them because they had no other choice when choosing a reasonably fast desktop machine compatible with their software? Seriously, the argument "oh, this feature must be popular because the whole machine is popular" really doesn't hold water in complex machines like computers, phones…

> Hmm, you're implying that everyone that bought a new iMac appreciates the thinness and bought it because of that? Or perhaps they bought them because they had no other choice when choosing a reasonably fast desktop machine compatible with their software? iMacs sold better even when the "cheese graters" were available, so yes.

The cheese graters cost between two to four times the price of an iMac depending on the era we're talking about (price fluctuations of the PowerMac/Mac Pro). Counting the fact that you do need to buy an external monitor to go along with it. That counts for something.

Apple never had a usable entry level desktop computer tower. Something with high performance on consumer class CPUs, rather than Xeon and ECC ram. The Mac Mini was always crippled to keep it from competing with the iMac and cheese graters among people who want something better performing.

The iMac is popular because it's the best performance to price ratio. Not because the form factor is any good. For the longest time the entry level MBP (and unibody Macbook before then) was also Apple's best selling laptop and they only recently cut it out from their line-up and replaced it with the Air as their entry level offering. The Air will also exist for as long as they keep selling the current Macbook at those prices because most people are not willing to spend 1449 euros on a machine that barely performs better.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by tavert »

jlgaddis wrote: post #207

I know I could Google and read about some experiences but since this made me think about it... have any of you HN'ers tried to virtualize OS X or run it virtualized (on anything other than an OS X host) on a regular basis? I've got a (still pretty new) high-end MacBook Pro sitting at the end of my desk but -- after putting together a new, extremely over-built workstation a few months ago -- I haven't even turned it o…

There are mac vagrant boxes available that work on a linux host. You may need to put

    vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--usbehci", "off"]
in the vagrantfile.

Re: Building a Hackintosh Pro

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Post by Synaesthesia »

crazy5sheep wrote: post #224

a bit off topic. NVIDIA driver for mac is kind of suck. the bug, which showing a transparent window whenever you try to open an epub file with ibook.app, is been there for a very long time, and still no fix yet.

Still! I was hoping for a fix for that. I hear if you activate your onboard intel grapics it will work but I haven't managed to do that yet
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