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Re:My experience using Hackintosh low-end PC for 3 years by landave on Saturday June 10, 2017 @05:20AM (#14526716)
I am pretty sure that you need a Board Serial Number (SN) from a real Mac. At least about a year ago this was the case. Did you use a SN from a real Mac? If not, then you probably got lucky.

I think there is also the possibility of calling Apple's support hotline and letting them manually activate a randomly generated Serial Number.

See also here: https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/525dsb/getting_...

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Re:My experience using Hackintosh low-end PC for 3 years by ig0r0 on Saturday June 10, 2017 @02:59PM (#14528659)
For the Store and iCloud you do not need anything. For iMessage you need to generate a motherboard SN and other stuff, it is not so easy but doable with the right tutorial.
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