I wish Apple would apin off their x86 OSX as a separate company. I would love to see it compete with Microsoft Windows.
How much longer do you imagine x86 will be supported, given how much better Apple Silicon is in every metric?
Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
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Re: Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
#12Happy you are posting about hackintosh but generally sharing EFI folders isn’t at all best practice. Anyone who runs a hackintosh should learn how to build a proper config.plist with propertree for their own setup. Spread knowledge not scripts :)
Any references to tutorials for said proper config.plist designs?
I think this guide is best when setting up a Hackintosh: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/prerequisi...
For parts of the config.plist, you can find generators, but when installing on raw hardware you will probably be combining presets based on your system specifics.
Re: Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lure a wider class of people into buying things from the App Store to generate more recurring revenue? Make macOS a more promising alternative to Windows in the corporate space?
Last time I checked it's not like they have excess inventory. And Macs are quite viable in the corporate space - so far, in the past 10 years or so, I have been issued precisely one Windows laptop. All other machines were Macs.
Of approx 5,000 employees there are less than 20 Macs at my workplace. We're a Dell/Windows shop with Ubuntu as a popular option for devs.
Outside of the tech departments staff usually get generic corporate hardware for light desktop/browser workloads.
Re: Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
#14I wish Apple would apin off their x86 OSX as a separate company. I would love to see it compete with Microsoft Windows.
Why? To decrease their hardware market with own hands? Never going to happen.
Apple is not very frequent in self-shooting in the foot.
Re: Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
#15I wish Apple would apin off their x86 OSX as a separate company. I would love to see it compete with Microsoft Windows.
How much longer do you imagine x86 will be supported, given how much better Apple Silicon is in every metric?
Likely Apple will stick to their usual support cycle of "Current minus N" and eventually x86 will be dropped
Re: Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
#16I wish Apple would apin off their x86 OSX as a separate company. I would love to see it compete with Microsoft Windows.
How much longer do you imagine x86 will be supported, given how much better Apple Silicon is in every metric?
According to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624\
It seems they consider hardware obsolete 7 years from availability to purchase. Intel mac pro was selling last year so sometime around 2030?
Re: Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lure a wider class of people into buying things from the App Store to generate more recurring revenue? Make macOS a more promising alternative to Windows in the corporate space?
Last time I checked it's not like they have excess inventory. And Macs are quite viable in the corporate space - so far, in the past 10 years or so, I have been issued precisely one Windows laptop. All other machines were Macs.
For tech and art, yes, that's been a solid Apple domain for decades. But your average paper pusher bureaucrat? They get a crap 500$ Dell/HP that constantly has issues because there's no budget for better stuff and 90% of the non-Web/SaaS software in that area is solid Windows-only.
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#18I can't believe it
Re: Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last time I checked it's not like they have excess inventory. And Macs are quite viable in the corporate space - so far, in the past 10 years or so, I have been issued precisely one Windows laptop. All other machines were Macs.
For tech and art, yes, that's been a solid Apple domain for decades. But your average paper pusher bureaucrat? They get a crap 500$ Dell/HP that constantly has issues because there's no budget for better stuff and 90% of the non-Web/SaaS software in that area is solid Windows-only.
From my past couple years, I only saw Windows laptops in accounting and HR. You could get a Windows loaner when you needed to check something a customer was experiencing you couldn’t reproduce on the Mac.
Linux has been rare mostly for compliance and regulatory issues - corporate IT thinks it’s too easy for a determined Linux geek to take over the machine and bypass all safeguards.
Re: Hackintosh: OpenCore EFI for HP Pavilion Aero 13 Laptop
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
For tech and art, yes, that's been a solid Apple domain for decades. But your average paper pusher bureaucrat? They get a crap 500$ Dell/HP that constantly has issues because there's no budget for better stuff and 90% of the non-Web/SaaS software in that area is solid Windows-only.
From my past couple years, I only saw Windows laptops in accounting and HR. You could get a Windows loaner when you needed to check something a customer was experiencing you couldn’t reproduce on the Mac. Linux has been rare mostly for compliance and regulatory issues - corporate IT thinks it’s too easy for a determined Linux geek to take over the machine and bypass all safeguards.
> Linux has been rare mostly for compliance and regulatory issues - corporate IT thinks it’s too easy for a determined Linux geek to take over the machine and bypass all safeguards.
And that's because it is... when Grub boots, press e, add init=/bin/sh (or rdinit), and boom you have a root shell. In case the admins did think far enough to deal with implementing Grub password protection or secure boot of some kind, wait a couple months, and there will be some sort of local privilege escalation exploits (there's about one a year).
In addition to that, Linux doesn't exactly play nice with corporate snake-oil solutions - these are more hassle than they're worth it as they constantly break.