OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, enabling Hackintosh

Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by VWWHFSfQ on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:37AM (#24069713)

I never understood the appeal of Hackintosh. Linux has a hard enough time getting touchpad, display, suspend/resume, etc working on regular PC laptops. Does any of that stuff have hope for working well on reasonably modern MacBooks? Maybe this is more for reviving a 10+ year old Apple computer with Ubuntu? I understand that it's kind of fun and interesting but I feel like you're just punishing yourself if your goal is to actually try to use it day-to-day. Just get a Dell.

edit: I now realize this is for running macOS on PC hardware. I remember that I had a coworker back in like 2008 that booted his Dell Mini 10v Netbook with Mac OS X and it was fun to look at but comically non-functional. But he forced himself to use it..

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by Nursie on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:59AM (#24069830)

> comically non-functional.

I had an eeepc 901 years ago, with an atom chip, and I turned it into a hackintosh running snow leopard. It worked great! Way better than with the original software on it.

Hackintoshes can be really good. Not all are, and you have to be careful about updates sometimes, but it can be very worthwhile. I would probably have it bootable as an option on my current Ryzen workstation, but I went with an nvidia graphics card so it's a no-go. Good thing I also love debian.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by ornxka on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:06PM (#24074901)

I'm amazed by this. I started using an EeePC 901 a few months ago, and it barely runs Firefox. I don't know if that says more about the computer than it does about Firefox, but I had no idea such a thing was even possible.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by Nursie on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:32PM (#24075153)

It's quite some time ago now! I don't think I even have mine any more...

I guess Snow-Leopard was pretty lightweight compared to what we have now. IIRC I also modded the machine a bit with a 64GB aftermarket storage card. Maybe doubled the RAM too.

Eventually I think the aftermarket storage card died, and I went back to debian/XFCE, then to debian/LXDE, in an effort to try to keep it both current and usable, with chromium for a browser as FF was too heavy.

Pleased to hear someone has one still up and running :)

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by williamtwild on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:52AM (#24069797)

seems like you don’t understand what a hackintosh is which might be why you don’t get it. it’s not other os on apple hardware as you put it, it’s osx on generic hardware

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by StavrosK on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:39AM (#24069720)

It's the other way around, Hackintosh is Mac OS on non-Apple hardware (for example, a Dell).

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by jki275 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @07:21AM (#24069958)

The Dell Mini 9 was essentially the same hardware as one of the MacBooks at the time, so it was trivial to get it to boot OSX 10.6 as I recall.

The Mini 10, otoh, was totally different and a royal pain to get working.

It was actually a pretty decent netbook running OS X once we got it running.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by rangibaby on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:40AM (#24069728)

Hackintosh means running MacOS on non-Apple hardware, which can be a nice way to avoid the Apple tax.

I run Ubuntu on my 2013 MacBook retina. Everything works!

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by jackdaniel on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:43AM (#24069748)

One valid use case for the Hackintosh is to have it in the VM to provide some support of your software for users of OSX. Setting couple of virtual machines with different operating systems for testing makes sense, however Apple made it really hard to support their platform.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by mjb152 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:45AM (#24069758)

sat here working on a recently built Ryzen 7 32gb, which runs perfectly. The complete build cost was < £700, thats with a decent graphics card, 1tb nvme.... the equivalent mac would've cost a lot more.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by throwaway234101 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @09:12AM (#24070544)

Hackintosh: because Apple doesn't offer a $1000 Mac Pro.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by whywhywhywhy on Thursday August 06, 2020 @09:24AM (#24070640)

I honestly would have been fine with a $2500 Mac Pro before I switched my performance computing over to Windows.

I'm not looking for a cheap machine, I'm just looking for good value performance and expandability for what I'm paying.

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Re:OpenCore bootloader – open-sourced Apple UEFI drivers, en... by throwaway234101 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @12:34PM (#24072588)

> I honestly would have been fine with a $2500 Mac Pro

The cheapest mac pro you can get with modern hardware is $6000. My hackintosh is $1500 because I do like a fast machine that I can play games on every now and then.

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