The Hackintosh Reborn with AI

Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by pcwalton on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:24PM (#50387353)

You're never going to be able to get the Apple code off an Apple Silicon Mac anyway, because of the enormous amount of proprietary firmware that the OS has to interface with. Apple Silicon devices offload an exceptional amount of hardware functionality to firmware blobs that the OS just sends messages to. Removing the macOS container wouldn't change this.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by y1n0 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:20PM (#50387764)

Reversing said blobs is only a few tokens away.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by what on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:45PM (#50387900)

Keep us posted. I assume you have a few tokens to spare.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by nout on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:29AM (#50389266)

Linuxes are now running up to M3 CPUs (and also A18, which is funny).

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by Shank on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:55AM (#50389840)

Can you explain why this is funny?

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by solyin on Friday November 06, 2026 @04:02AM (#50389897)

So we can have iPhones that run Linux.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by Shank on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:09AM (#50402092)

iPhone can’t boot Linux. But there is the Macbook Neo, which runs the A18.

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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by pcwalton on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:05AM (#50421647)

The firmware blobs almost certainly require Apple's signing keys to modify. Otherwise it'd be a pretty big security hole.

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