Anyone plan on a 10.14 Hackintosh? I am not. I use 1 drive for both Windows 10 and MacOS 10.13.6 and will be moving them both (reinstalling Windows) to a new m.2 SSD. I hope it goes smoothly, but Time Machine has always worked really well for Hackintoshes in my experience.
I am also wondering if anyone here uses Gsync on MacOS? I don't game on MacOS, apart from testing my GPU, and have had some trouble keeping it enabled.
But I have been using this PC as a Hackintosh for a long time now, and 10.13.6 has been rock solid, with zero beach balls or kernel panics.
I have been using Tonymacx86 for a long time now, and I have to admit, the site really needs an overhaul. Does anyone else feel the future of the Hackintosh looks kinda bleak?
I love helping people make Hackintoshes for fun. It is still surprisingly easy if someone has the right hardware.
I'm doing Mojave on our 2011-era Hackintosh, along with a boot drive upgrade. Hopefully Monday, as I'm taking a couple days off for the holidays.
Haven't messed with any Gsync stuff myself yet.
Tonymac is still updating the main site with updates, plus their forums are pretty active still. I haven't bothered writing a guide in ages, as it's so easy now...buy from the supported hardware list, build a Unibeast boot stick & copy Multibeast to it...ridiculously easy now.
I still vastly prefer working on x86 hardware, as opposed to real Macs. It's so much easier to swap out parts & keep your system update with DIY hardware. As far as the future goes, I dunno. Apple seems to really be focusing on self-driving systems & A.I. lately. I feel like smartphones have peaked. Maybe apps, too...not that we still won't see more good apps in the future, especially games, but we have a pretty good breadth of programs available for the iPhone & iPad, and there's not much left to add to the hardware at this point, at least that I can think of!
Will Hackintosh ever be killed? There's always a chance, at least until Apple makes a hardware move, say to ARM, and eventually x86 support is deep-sixed, but even then, the Windows world would probably be parallel, and with the licensing of *nix being what it is, there's always a chance it'd stay afloat.
I mean, I'd love to buy my wife a 5K-res iMac Pro or a fully-loaded Macbook Air or Pro, but I don't really want to spend thousands & thousands of dollars to do so. A fully-loaded new Mini is over $4,000 these days. An iMac Pro starts at $5k and goes all the way north of $13,000 with all the bells & whistles. You can build a pretty sick Hackintosh for a grand, in comparison.
I don't think the future of Hackintosh looks bleak, so much as not many people really care anymore. The genie is out of the bottle, so to speak, and it's really easy to make a rock-solid Hackintosh these days. So the challenge is kind of, well, gone to make one. Apple kind of shot themselves in the foot with the whole FCPX thing & lost a lot of professionals to Windows & Adobe & others like Resolve because of it. They're trying to recover, but their hardware prices are even more bananas these days, and the Mac Pro redesign (modular?) still doesn't exist yet.
I think a big part of it is that most people just use their jumbo smartphones now, and the rest use laptops. Chromebooks are amazing these days, as well as incredibly cheap. It can be a frustrating experience going from something like an iPhone 8 Plus & Chromebook back to Windows or even Mac, because they seem slow & somewhat poorly-designed compared to how user-friendly things are on other platforms. Heck, I've even switched over my entire smarthouse setup to Alexa, and everything "just works" as intended these days, and that's after years of babysitting the Wink thread!
You know, generally-speaking, there's been a really interesting shift in the ease-of-use in technology in recent years. I have a Roku TV, a single remote, and various services like Amazon & Netflix. I have an Alexa-driven smarthouse setup. I use an iPhone & a Chromebook, primarily. Even in cooking, I have an Instant Pot & sous vide machine, plus a vacuum-sealer...food is easy, the smarthouse is easy, entertainment is easy, all of the technology is pretty dang easy & stable & just generally solid & awesome these days.
I remember growing up without much in the way of technology, being born in the early 80's, and then hitting kind of a saturation point, and now everything is just kind of blending into the background, working as-advertised, prices are getting ridiculously affordable, and I don't have to be Mr. Super Geek all the time to maintain it. It's kind nice, actually...at least from a personal standpoint, I've kind of changed from being preoccupied with technology to using technology to do other things, which makes me a bit sad, as I love me some good tech hardware, but I also feel freed up quite a bit in life, as my equipment's maintenance requirements are super low these days!
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