My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec

Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by unnouinceput on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:38AM (#22168446)

Quote: "The SSD is more than fast enought for my needs. Funny thing is that it’s even faster under Windows (3.5 GBps read and 3.3 GBps write)." Also OP is showing ~2.5 Gbps in an image.

Funny thing, I run my Macs in virtual machines (VMWare), and the speed is identical to Windows (host OS), while all other OS'es (Linux / BSD / other Windows') show slower speed. I wonder why.

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by SloopJon on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:59AM (#22169375)

I thought you could only run Mac VMs on a Mac host. Has that changed, or did you hack VMware somehow?

Our automation group has a couple of maxed out trash cans just for Mac VMs. The IT department probably can't wait to replace them with the new rackmounts.

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by unnouinceput on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:19PM (#22171481)

As other said it, there is unlocker for VMWare which allows you to have Mac OS as option when creating a new virtual machine.

As for hacking VMWare I got my hands on a official Mountain Lion image years ago, directly from Apple, which I used to copy/upgrade into new VM each time a new Mac OS was released. I have lying around cca 15 VM's with different flavors of Mac OS each, all tests for various projects for my clients.

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by dordoka on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @10:54AM (#22170485)

Check this out: https://github.com/paolo-projects/unlocker

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by judge2020 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:19AM (#22169551)

Legally you can only run them on Mac hardware, even if it's a windows/linux OS.

As for technically, it's possible. I believe you either have to edit some file or run a patcher to get it to run MacOS though.

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by rejap on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:12AM (#22169502)

look for unlocker on github

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by morid1n on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:32AM (#22168747)

Screenshot shows 3 GBps for both read and write under Windows. Windows has 3.5/3.3.

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by unnouinceput on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @08:05AM (#22168956)

Correct. Also for curiosity I did a test on my host and Mac VM. Program reported on both Windows and Mac VM same speed of ~500 MB/s (which translates into 4.8 Gbps for OP style). On Linux I got ~450 MB/s. I used Total Commander in all cases (my normal file manager) and used my Witcher 3 .iso file as test (66 GB in size).

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by paranoidrobot on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @09:16AM (#22169526)

> which translates into 4.8 Gbps for OP style

I think you are misreading/misunderstanding the performance of modern NVMe SSDs.

SATA based SSDs which it sounds like you have, top out at around 550MByte/sec.

However a PCIE 3.0 NVME can easily achieve 3500 MByte/sec throughput. That's saturating the PCIE 3.0 x4 link. PCIE 4.0 based SSDs are even faster, with advertised 5000MByte/sec throughput (but in testing may top out slightly slower than that)

Yes, modern SSDs are stupid fast.

[0] https://www.techspot.com/review/1893-pcie-4-vs-pcie-3-ssd/

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by unnouinceput on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:01PM (#22171273)

Aye, it's SATA. PC is from 2013, old badly, planning this year to make a new one. But it covered me in past 7 years quite nicely. I made a quick math with my wife when she complained why I need a new one since this one is still good. Calculated that in past 7 years she paid 20% more in her cell phone subscription then me in buying/upgrading the PC all these years. And it was the work horse with at least 10 hours daily running, average of 16 and plenty of times stayed on for days.

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