Enlarge / Hackintoshes are PCs that run macOS, which means you can do whatever you want with the design. (credit: Dan Counsell )
Apple company hasn’t stopped selling Intel Macs just yet, but it’s safe to say that we’ll never see a Mac with one of Intel’s 12th-generation Core processors in it. But that minor detail isn’t stopping the Hackintosh community from supporting new Intel and AMD processors and platforms. The developers behind OpenCore , the most powerful and actively maintained bootloader for loading macOS on standard PC hardware, improved its Alder Lake support in this month’s release , version 0. 7. 7. In a blog post over the weekend, the designers also detailed their efforts to update OpenCore and its associated software to work with Intel’s Z690 chipset.
The key to building a functional Hackintosh is normally to build a PC that’s as close as possible to actual Intel Mac hardware—most crucially, the CPU, GPU, plus chipset. OpenCore’s job is in order to bridge whatever gap is left between your PC and real Mac hardware so that macOS boots and works properly. It adds support for reading and booting macOS filesystems, loads kernel extensions to support additional hardware, tells macOS how to handle your system’s audio outputs and USB ports, and spoofs hardware to take advantage of macOS’s built-in support (if, for example , your PC has a GPU that is similar to but not quite identical to a GRAPHICS included in a real Intel Mac).
As OpenCore has developed and matured, it has gotten better at bridging larger and larger gaps between PC hardware and “real” Apple computers. It can get old versions of macOS like Tiger (10. 4) and Snow Leopard (10. 6) up and running on old hardware , in addition to it can even be used to run newer macOS versions on real Mac pcs that Apple has dropped from the official support list. It can even run macOS on AMD processors, albeit with some caveats for software that relies on Intel-specific functionality. The still-active Hackintosh Reddit community is full of people running macOS on all kinds of different hardware.
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