Why build hackintosh

Building a hackintosh is much easier than you might suspect. And there are plenty of great reasons to give it a go. Below are five good reasons to invest the time and effort in building a hackintosh, together with some pointers for getting started.

Perhaps the number one reason why anyone builds their own computer macOS, Windows or otherwise : The spec is all down to you. Video card too slow? With a hackintosh you can just order a new card online and install it the next day.

Apple is hardly making it easy for power users to get their hands on some high-end Mac kit right now. Gathering Files. The BIOS software is specific to my motherboard and yours may look a little different. If yours looks different, do you best to find equivalent setting in you software, if yours looks different.

Note that BIOS setting are easy to experiment with and you don't have to have all the same settings as me to get everything working. Then select "Clear Secure Boot Keys". After the computer restarts, hit F12 to get into the boot menu. Click the dropdown menu toward the top and click "Show All Devices". Then select your hard drive and click "Erase" at the top. You can name the drive anything you like.

You will have to choose the hard drive you just formatted. And then you will have to wait as macOS is installed. At this point you will set up the computer just like you would a brand new Mac computer. After the setup, macOS Big Sur will load. There is one more thing left to do. This is the same program you used before, if you created the installer on a mac.

First select one, then the other. At this point you can restart the computer and take out the USB drive. The Hackintosh is complete! I'm a teacher and developer with freeCodeCamp. I run the freeCodeCamp. If you read this far, tweet to the author to show them you care. Tweet a thanks. Learn to code for free. Get started. Forum Donate. Beau Carnes.

You can watch the video here: It is not illegal to create a Hackintosh for personal use but it does go against Apple's End User License Agreement.

The Hardware Many computer parts work for Hackintoshes. Open up the App store on macOS. Search for "Big Sur". Click "Get", and then "Download". Once Disk Utility is open, make sure that the view is set to show all devices. Click the USB drive, then click "Erase" in the top menu. The type of processor I used is "Coffee Lake". For most of the tabs in this program you can keep the default settings.

You'll need to get the SSDT files. This is different depending on your processor. Right-click on MountEFI. A dialog box could pop up here about what version to use. If this happens, click "Yes". Next, we need to add more children under it and it should eventually look like this: Below is the text from the image above that you need to add if you system is Cofee Lake.

Mojave You should see all of your partitions and disks. On the bottom half, you'll see your devices. Find your USB. Right click the unallocated space and create a new simple volume. Input Devices. Crucial Ballistix 16GB. Crucial Ballistix 32GB. Crucial Ballistix 64GB. Core iK 3. Core i 2. Core iK 4. Core i 3. Corsair H55 Quiet. Corsair H60 Water.

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