Hackintosh enthusiasts worry that the end is near
by Chris Welch from The Verge - All Posts on (#6KF8V)
Image: Aleksandar Vaci
For years, there's been a dedicated community of tech tinkerers who've built unofficial Macs" out of PC hardware or successfully gotten macOS running on a laptop that ran Windows in a past life. But now, some of those enthusiasts believe the Hackintosh dream is becoming more and more untenable.
This blog post by Aleksandar Vaci, highlighted by 9to5Mac, runs through some of the difficulties that seem to be growing by the day. In a nutshell, macOS Sonoma removed support for many drivers that were found in Intel Macs a decade ago. Vaci says these drivers were the key ingredient to many fully functional Hackintosh builds." It's still possible to cobble together a Hackintosh with the Sonoma OS, but you'll have to be comfortable with some...