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Re:Why You Should Build a Hackintosh by mnm1 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @06:32PM (#17711492)
> Finally you hit a point where your system is so far behind that you give up

My 2013 Macbook Pro retina will be at this point in the fall with two major upgrades uninstallable. I'd say this argument no longer holds because even the official hardware often can't be upgraded. I would be shocked if the next OSX version doesn't fail to upgrade like the one from last fall. That new filesystem breaks everything. Thankfully I had backups, but even attempting again is not worth losing a day to Apple's shitty software. OSX Used to be the one piece of software that was solid. Now there is no Apple software I use that is solid except old versions of OSX <= 10.12.x

Re:Why You Should Build a Hackintosh by photojosh on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:17PM (#17711804)
What updates were those? I'm still using a 2013 MBP too and no plans to upgrade. Given that 10.14 is still compatible with 2010 MBPs I think I have more than a few years left with it.
Re:Why You Should Build a Hackintosh by rozenmd on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:46PM (#17711963)
Actually, 10.14 will only support MacBook Pro (Mid-2012 or later) according to: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/05/macos-mojave-will...
Re:Why You Should Build a Hackintosh by photojosh on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @10:05PM (#17712654)
I'm an idiot, was muddling up Mojave and High Sierra. Right you are.
Re:Why You Should Build a Hackintosh by mithr on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:51PM (#17712002)
Not to belittle OP's experience, but I've been running High Sierra on a 2010 MBP since it came out with no issues, so YMMV.
Re:Why You Should Build a Hackintosh by sincarne on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:38AM (#17714674)
I'm running the same machine, and had the same experience, but our MBPs will not be supported by the new OS in the fall.
Re:Why You Should Build a Hackintosh by mnm1 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:23PM (#17711842)
10.13 and the upcoming 10.14 and any future updates no doubt.
Re:Why You Should Build a Hackintosh by photojosh on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:45PM (#17711959)
Ah, so they just failed to install correctly? They're meant to be supported fine. What a pain. Do you know where it went wrong?
Re:Why You Should Build a Hackintosh by mnm1 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @02:01AM (#17713531)
10.13 yes. I haven't tried 10.14. I have no idea where it went wrong. Maybe it didn't like that I had shrank the OSX partition for dual booting. It was a pain just to restore from Time Machine as the rescue partition they keep is old too. I think I ended up installing some older version then restoring on top of that.
Re:Why You Should Build a Hackintosh by rozenmd on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @07:49PM (#17711994)
Might be worth trying without the APFS conversion?

  /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall --converttoapfs NO