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Re: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

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Post by DenseComet »

stevievee wrote: post #45
DenseComet wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice article, however, you may want to think about changing the color scheme of your website, the gray text on a gray background makes it a bit hard to read.

Thanks for reading and the recommendation. You should see a white background! I am still tweaking the style for all browsers/devices.

Oh it seems as if your theme is using prefers-color-scheme to detect if the user is using dark theme and setting the background based on that. If I change from dark to light theme in system preferences, the background of your website also changes.

Re: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

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Post by x3sphere »

I use OpenCore but have switched my Hackintosh system over to running in a VM (using GPU passthrough). It's easier for me to backup / make changes this way, and there is only a minor performance hit. This is a Geekbench run from my VM (Core i9 10940x with 4 cores passed through): https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15395105

I have a Windows 10 VM running on a same system too. It may not be suitable if you require virtualization inside macOS itself though. Nested virtualization doesn't work too well with the Android emulator, in my experience.

Re: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

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Post by Hamuko »

buzzert wrote: post #66

If anyone has an Intel NUC that they were thinking of turning into a hackintosh, there’s a really great guide/set of documentation out there for a project called HaC Mini[1] which is based on OpenCore. This was my first exposure to OpenCore after being a long time Clover user and it was very good! [1] https://osy.gitbook.io/hac-mini-guide/

The latest i9 NUCs look like a great Mac Mini replacement if they're Hackintoshable. Although they seem to be quite pricey.

Re: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

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Post by chrischen »

buzzert wrote: post #66

If anyone has an Intel NUC that they were thinking of turning into a hackintosh, there’s a really great guide/set of documentation out there for a project called HaC Mini[1] which is based on OpenCore. This was my first exposure to OpenCore after being a long time Clover user and it was very good! [1] https://osy.gitbook.io/hac-mini-guide/

Cool this was what I was looking for: basically confirmed system build that works rather than struggling to assemble a bunch of parts and making them work.

Re: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

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Post by paypalcust83 »

Interesting, I'll have to look at it. My T480 Clover hackintosh needs a rebuild because battery status broke and it hangs randomly every 15 minutes-3 days. It may have something to do with the Samsung 970 Pro 1TB. I have no idea about DSDT, so I'm going to have to dive in and debug that mess.

Re: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

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Post by Hamuko »

t0mislav wrote: post #9

What is current state of Hackintosh this days? Is it stable?

I've had my Hackintosh for six years now and it's been fairly stable. It's sometimes done a bit of freezing up after a boot and I'm used to something failing after I've had the system running for a while. Like after 30-60 days of uptime, the audio stack might just stop working and I need to reboot the computer to get audio back. Not really a big deal and I'm really happy with how much computer I got for a thousand euro back in 2014.

Re: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

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Post by terhechte »

x3sphere wrote: post #72

I use OpenCore but have switched my Hackintosh system over to running in a VM (using GPU passthrough). It's easier for me to backup / make changes this way, and there is only a minor performance hit. This is a Geekbench run from my VM (Core i9 10940x with 4 cores passed through): https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15395105 I have a Windows 10 VM running on a same system too. It may not be suitable if you require vi…

As I'm currently thinking about also going this route I do have some questions, if I may. Could you elaborate what your hardware setup is? Do you have two screens, and two powerful GPUs? Or do you use a HDMI Switch for one screen? Basically, how do you cope with the hardware limitations of GPU Passthrough

(I briefly looked into using a single GPU for passthrough, which seems possible but involved rewriting the GPU rom and I'm not going to do that :)

Re: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

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Post by improbable22 »

mmm_grayons wrote: post #23
Moto7451 wrote: post #11

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Ditto. I built one last week. Everything was straightforward and the documentation great. My only criticism of the state of building a Hackintosh is the amount of cargo cult advise out there. Figuring out my Audio took longer than it should as finding the layout-id for my ALC892 was buried in threads where everyone kept parroting “use ID 1, 2, and 3 or just keep trying numbers until it works.” My board needed layout-…

> My only criticism of the state of building a Hackintosh is the amount of cargo cult advise out there. Absolutely right. I think the issue behind this is that many people are repeating advice without understanding why it matters because it worked for them. So, you end up with people cargo-culting SSDT overlays, boot arguments, and other miscellaneous settings. This is somewhat inevitable with something technical, bu…

These are true. But also, I think some of the weirdness is that a lot of people only do this once, struggle, and then move on. So the forums are full of people trying to find others with the same problem which none of them understand.

Re: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

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Post by buzzert »

dillonmckay wrote: post #69
buzzert wrote: post #66

If anyone has an Intel NUC that they were thinking of turning into a hackintosh, there’s a really great guide/set of documentation out there for a project called HaC Mini[1] which is based on OpenCore. This was my first exposure to OpenCore after being a long time Clover user and it was very good! [1] https://osy.gitbook.io/hac-mini-guide/

What issues did you run into, or was everything supported onboard?

My particular NUC (the NUC8i7HVK) is precisely the one targeted by the HaC Mini project, so everything worked really great out of the box.

That wasn’t the case a few months ago though, when graphics acceleration, sleep, and even USB didn’t work! It was really thanks to the authors of this project who got everything working. They even have technically detailed explanations about how they reverse engineered some of the drivers to get everything working correctly.

Re: OpenCore: Hackintosh Alternative to Clover

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Post by Hamuko »

x3sphere wrote: post #72

I use OpenCore but have switched my Hackintosh system over to running in a VM (using GPU passthrough). It's easier for me to backup / make changes this way, and there is only a minor performance hit. This is a Geekbench run from my VM (Core i9 10940x with 4 cores passed through): https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15395105 I have a Windows 10 VM running on a same system too. It may not be suitable if you require vi…

That sounds pretty nice actually. Really the only pain that I feel with my Hackintosh is the updates (which is why I'm still on Mojave). However, I'm not really sure if I want to trade in performance since updates are a periodic pain but a performance hit is gonna always be there.
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