Why the downvotes? Apple silicon ARM is not the same ISA as any existing ARM. There’s extra undocumented instructions and features. Unless you want to reverse engineer all that, and make your own ARM CPU, you cannot run (all of) macOS on an off the shelf ARM chip. Making it effectively “impossible”.
Yep, I know the writing was on the wall ever since they announced Silicon. While annoyed at the time, getting out from under Intel’s thumb was probably the right choice, and they’re way more powerful machines as a result. Still not a fan of Apple myself, but wanting to do it themselves is respectable.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works
on 08 Jul 21:31
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You could have your cake and eat it too, which is to say that you could run the Mac version of Photoshop because that apparently mattered to some people. Now, all that’s over, so if you love weird modifier keys on your keyboard and a sleek, glassy operating system, you’ll have to pay the big bucks for Apple hardware again. The Hackintosh is dead.
I find the modifier keys to be normal. I find the ending of this article to be weird.
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Jul 00:06
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Abandoned mine several years ago. Kind of a shame, they were a good option for a while for people who weren’t windows fans but didn’t want to run linux full time. Apple just doesn’t really have any offerings for people who want a desktop that’s upgradeable, but don’t want to drop the money on a Mac Pro.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Jul 02:44
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The SSD in the M4 mini is upgradable, for those who aren’t aware.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 09 Jul 06:50
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Is this a take in regards to soldering in new flash chips or replacing a board and then needing to wrestle Apple support during an RMA to replace a faulty component (because I quiet confidently believe, Apple will cross check your hardware with their records from the serial number).
And I don’t believe regular PC manufacturers/OEMs are that hard to argue with if I insert my own SSD.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works
on 09 Jul 07:37
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Was coming down the line ever since M1. I guess you could try with a arm hackintosh.
I guess you could also virtualize it through qemu on arm to get good compatability
Just an idea. I still use win 11.
Impossible
Fair, I was not going to try.
Why the downvotes? Apple silicon ARM is not the same ISA as any existing ARM. There’s extra undocumented instructions and features. Unless you want to reverse engineer all that, and make your own ARM CPU, you cannot run (all of) macOS on an off the shelf ARM chip. Making it effectively “impossible”.
Yep, I know the writing was on the wall ever since they announced Silicon. While annoyed at the time, getting out from under Intel’s thumb was probably the right choice, and they’re way more powerful machines as a result. Still not a fan of Apple myself, but wanting to do it themselves is respectable.
I find the modifier keys to be normal. I find the ending of this article to be weird.
You can literally get that sleek glassy look on Linux too.
Why would I want that? I don’t even want it on my Mac.
I would be happy to return to the Snow Leopard aesthetic.
What you don’t want vista-fruitcake? Trash nobody wanted then so we repackaged it!
Not in a straightforward or easy way (at least for new people)
The nice thing about the Hackintosh was the upgradability/repairability. Wishing Apple would bring some of that back.
Best lil’ machine I ever had was a 10 inch Dell mini Hackintosh. Loved it, and got me through grad school .
Is there no way to get it to run on ARM systems? Are none of them powerful enough to be useful without being Macs?
ARM isn’t plug-and-play like x86 (n.b. it could be, but no one does it outside of servers)
You have to write a big JSON like file, called a DeviceTree, that describes exactly what is in the computer
Unless Apple decides to support Hackintoshes, their OS won’t have devicetrees for other devices.
You might be able to make your own and get the OS to read it, but it still has to be for a specific machine rather than generic like before
Given Apple‘s past, the most they will do is, at some future date, make macOS capable of reading custom JSON device tree files. Maybe
One more reason to switch to Linux
Yeah, I’ve heard that one before…
Abandoned mine several years ago. Kind of a shame, they were a good option for a while for people who weren’t windows fans but didn’t want to run linux full time. Apple just doesn’t really have any offerings for people who want a desktop that’s upgradeable, but don’t want to drop the money on a Mac Pro.
The SSD in the M4 mini is upgradable, for those who aren’t aware.
Is this a take in regards to soldering in new flash chips or replacing a board and then needing to wrestle Apple support during an RMA to replace a faulty component (because I quiet confidently believe, Apple will cross check your hardware with their records from the serial number).
And I don’t believe regular PC manufacturers/OEMs are that hard to argue with if I insert my own SSD.
expandmacmini.com
It’s pretty easy
And how much does Apple like that?
Fuck em
Doesnt work during an RMA.
After that: Yeah, sure.
It’s replaceable, it’s not upgradable.
Apple doesn’t use standard NVMe M.2 drives. The controller is built into the SoC rather than being on the storage device itself.
I’m aware, but I have upgraded my 256GB to 2TB so not sure what you’re on about. See: appleinsider.com/…/how-to-upgrade-the-ssd-in-your…
And: expandmacmini.com
A Wine-like Hackintosh is coming
What’s it called?
Darling
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