Hackintosh Success Stories

[ZenecadE]

I built my first hackintosh before Apple publicly announced the switch to x86 hardware. The OS was 10.4 on my old Acer Travelmate 4202 wlmi laptop. It booted and worked... ish. The things that didn't work? Almost everything. Internal display, core image, quartz extreme, sound, USB and some other little things. As time went by, one by one each item was hacked into submission.

These days things are a lot easier.

 

[FiestaST]

[video=youtube_share;pugSN7REHQg]https://youtu.be/pugSN7REHQg[/video]

 

[Rashaad_Sallie]

I run my hackintosh as a server, Movies, Files, backups, etc etc all accessible from any iOS device. The rest of our Macs are genuine though. 25TB HDD space in RAID with a SSD with El Capitan. Its a i5 with 16GB Ram and cheap HDMI VGA card. Very stable and runs 24/7.

 

[Rashaad_Sallie]

I built my first hackintosh before Apple publicly announced the switch to x86 hardware. The OS was 10.4 on my old Acer Travelmate 4202 wlmi laptop. It booted and worked... ish. The things that didn't work? Almost everything. Internal display, core image, quartz extreme, sound, USB and some other little things. As time went by, one by one each item was hacked into submission.

These days things are a lot easier.

I did the exact same. Installed dozens of machines

 

[shanezn]

For anyone interested ...

If you're running an older gen Nvidia card (2xx, 7xx, 6xx etc.) and haven't updated to 10.12.5 yet, please ensure that you install the latest Web drivers for Sierra from Nvidia's website. The upgrade will break your graphics if you don't and you'll be greeted with a "black screen" upon reboot. The only way out (if you don't update prior to running the 10.12.5 update) is to boot off your USB installer and into your macOS installation. Then, install the Web drivers for Nvidia and all should be fine. This isn't a problem on systems running 10.12.4 and below.