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Good thing: Hackintosh community developed more and more supporting kext
Bad thing: MacOS would be more picky on supporting hardware
Bad thing: MacOS would be more picky on supporting hardware
Would hackintosh be easier or harder in the future?
- Thread starter redhorse1990
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Since Apple Switched to ARM Processors i would think Hackintoshing will die in the Next Few Years.
The Day when Apple Stops Supporting the x86 Architecture the Hackintoshing Scene will Die out.
So, Enjoy the Last Years.
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Further advancements in the Hackintosh world is likely to stop once Apple switch completely over to their ARM (Apple Silicon) system and drop Intel systems from any new releases. This is only a year or two away as things stand.
Apple have always been selective, not picky, about what hardware will work with their OS. This is not new and is unlikely to ever change.
There is a limit to what is achievable in the Hackintosh world and we are fast approaching it.
Apple have always been selective, not picky, about what hardware will work with their OS. This is not new and is unlikely to ever change.
There is a limit to what is achievable in the Hackintosh world and we are fast approaching it.
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Would it possible for MacOS be running on a third-party ARM laptop? As Windows-ARM could be run in M1 MacBook now.
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Do Other arm Laptops Besides the Surface exist?
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No, because the Apple ARM chips are different to the other ARM chips, that is why it is commonly called Apple Silicon.
Apple have gone to the trouble of creating drivers for Windows-ARM OS to work on their systems. Mainly because people like to dual boot the two OS's. No one is currently working to run macOS on the other ARM chipped systems. The main reason being the Apple ARM chips are different to the other ARM chips, i.e., they include the GPU in their ARM chips. The other systems don't do this, so trying to run macOS on a non-Apple Silicon chip would be pointless unless a new set of GPU drivers were added to macOS, which Apple would never do or allow.
Apple have gone to the trouble of creating drivers for Windows-ARM OS to work on their systems. Mainly because people like to dual boot the two OS's. No one is currently working to run macOS on the other ARM chipped systems. The main reason being the Apple ARM chips are different to the other ARM chips, i.e., they include the GPU in their ARM chips. The other systems don't do this, so trying to run macOS on a non-Apple Silicon chip would be pointless unless a new set of GPU drivers were added to macOS, which Apple would never do or allow.
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Since when is Apple creating drivers for Windows on Arm? Would be new to me.
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Why the GPU driver has to be developed by Apple? Could a third-party develop GPU driver and run it on the top of MacOS?
Not possible because Apple retains high control over their OS (it is proprietary to them) and restricts which partners they work with. With the exception of AMD, they generally don’t like to work with other partners (Apple usually creates drivers on behalf of those companies so anyone else other than Apple have no access to it). They are not like Microsoft with Windows or other more open source based Linux OSes so not it is not possible for anyone to work with Apple as a third party.
