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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by TwoNineA on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:08PM (#20308353)
You can run MacOS through KVM easy on Ryzen. Even GPU passthrough works fine.
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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by LeSaucy on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:45PM (#20308651)
iMessage and other features generally break when running amd macintoshes, intel ones are indistinguishable.
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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by webmobdev on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:12PM (#20310590)
Why would they break if macOS itself runs fine on AMD? These softwares run on macOS and don't make any system calls directly by bypassing the OS, right?
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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by mainlineman on Friday June 28, 2019 @11:53PM (#20310729)
They typically check for a network interface from a real Mac. Using a Hackintosh you can't spoof some of the NIC details that are detected and cause iCloud/iMessage to not work.
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Re:$499 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Almost as Fast as $2000 Intel Core... by webmobdev on Saturday June 29, 2019 @10:03AM (#20312637)
Oh, wasn't aware of that. So does iCloud / iMessage work when macOS is run virtualised?
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