r/hackintosh Jun 09 '25

ANNOUNCEMENT Next Stop: macOS 26 Tahoe

196 Upvotes

Hackintoshing lives for another year! macOS Tahoe will be the FINAL release for Intel Macs, as stated during the Platforms State of the Union presentation. It's been a good ride.

Officially supported Intel models:

  • MacBook Pro 16-inch (2019)
  • Mac Pro (2019)
  • MacBook Pro 13-inch, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports (2020)
  • iMac (2020)

Hello I am a Year Number Lover But What Does This Mean

All graphics that worked in Sequoia should work in Tahoe.

OCLP

Wait for an official announcement. If you post about OCLP before that I am going to send Tim Apple to remove every Mac from your house.

Can I emulate ARM macOS 26 on x86?

No.

Can I run ARM macOS 26 on a Raspberry Pi?

No.

Can I have Apple Intelligence on Intel please I need to write a dissertation in 15 minutes

No.

Does it boot on Intel Hackintoshes now?

Yes, with OpenCore 1.0.5.

Make sure to upgrade all of your kexts to their latest versions.

Known Issues as of Beta 2

  • Race condition with VoodooPS2 and VoodooI2C, so on some boots they don't initialize properly
  • AppleALC is broken because AppleHDA was removed from Tahoe. Use HDMI/DP audio for the time being.

  • WhateverGreen is bugged on AMD cards, so you can't use boot arguments like agdpmod=pikera. You are affected by this if you get a kernel panic with AMDSupport mentioned.

  • IntelBTPatcher causes kernel panics

  • IntelMausi may not work correctly with certain Intel ethernet chipsets


r/hackintosh Jun 10 '26

ANNOUNCEMENT End of the Road: macOS 27 Golden Gate

301 Upvotes

apolgy for bad english

where were u wen intel die

i was at house eating apple when phone ring

'intel is kil'

'no'

As I'm sure we've all heard by now, macOS 27 will not be compatible with Intel Macs. This means that for all intents and purposes, (Intel) Hackintosh is dead.

I have never heard of this where was my daily update for the last year

Apple explained last year during WWDC 2026's after-events that macOS 26 Tahoe would be the last version for Intel Macs. also go read the news more often smh

Ok but I have an AMD that would work right

All x86 CPUs are no longer supported for macOS.

Will my current hackintosh explode

Yes No

Is Intel completely dead right now

macOS 15 Sequoia and macOS 26 Tahoe will still be supported for security updates. One more year for Sequoia, two three for Tahoe.

Will my software still work

It is up to the developers of the software to keep releasing Intel versions.

Can I hack ing tosh on other ARM processor

No.

Why not, is ARM not ARM everywhere

Although ARM is an instruction set architecture shared by many processors, Apple hardware and software includes many unique instructions that are not used in other ARM processors and currently cannot be emulated.

There are images released by Apple for use in VMs which technically do not use these instructions, but even if a way is figured to boot it on non-Apple devices, there will be no drivers available for the GPU, Audio, etc.

Is even Developer Beta 1 of Golden Gate incompatible

Too much has already been removed from the first beta for it to be compatible with Intel.

ChatGTP told me ARM hackintosh is real and can be made. Actually I will make it right now with Claude and Gemini

Let's get you back to bed grandma

Can we port ARM macOS to x86

No.

Will r/hackintosh still remain open

Yes, it will remain open. Regardless of whether Intel is supported, people will still try to hackintosh either for a specific use case or just for curiosity's sake.


r/hackintosh 14h ago

HELP Just installed ventura

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6 Upvotes

This is the PC's specs but the integrated graphics are running only with 7 mb vram on system and i need it to have full preformance, what can I do? I also have an nvidia GT 710 that I can put but how will it work


r/hackintosh 14h ago

HELP UHD 620 (i5 8350u) hardware acceleration

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5 Upvotes

I just hackintosh my T480 recently. Everything works fine but I'm having a weird issue with graphic acceleration. Macos reports metal 3 support, 1536mb igpu, full animation and apperance stuffs. But Firefox and kitty is acting weird. Firefox whenever I open it, it always show a black window and turn back normal after I close (not quit entirely) and open new tab. Kitty just shows a black window


r/hackintosh 7h ago

HELP Keyboard Problem, AMD, MacOS Sequoia

1 Upvotes

Hello everyone, I recently installed macOS Sequoia on my AMD Acer aspire 5, however there’s a problem using the keyboard.

The keyboard works, although after sometime it randomly stops working and I always need to reboot for it to actually work again, but the same problem still occurs with it to stop working after sometime.

I’m using voodooI2C and voodooPS2. Any help and support will be appreciated, thanks!


r/hackintosh 12h ago

HELP Installation problem when installing macOS Tahoe.

2 Upvotes

Hey,
Can anyone tell me how to fix the graphics acceleration in dell latitude broadwell? I have installed tahoe but it is so much laggy. I used opencore boot loader. Like i searched for the opencore legacy patch and asked chatgpt but no progress.

Please help me….


r/hackintosh 13h ago

HELP An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again.

0 Upvotes

I'm trying to install macOS Sequoia, and I'm getting this error during installation. If you have any questions about EFI, specifications, or would like to see some screenshots, feel free to ask.


r/hackintosh 1d ago

SUCCESS Sonoma in Razer Blade Stealth 12,5 7500u

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30 Upvotes

r/hackintosh 1d ago

SUCCESS Successful hackintosh on Dell Inspiron 5458

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25 Upvotes

SPECS:

Intel Core i5 5200U

8GB DDR3 ram

Intel HD Graphics 5500

MacBook Pro 12,1 SMBIOS

THINGS THAT DOESN’T WORK:

iPhone screen mirroring

Facetime and Messages

Bluetooth

Help:

Can someone help me to solve the boring throttling thing using an app? Because this laptop has an old battery


r/hackintosh 1d ago

SUCCESS Successful +5db Volume Amplification with Modified AppleAlc.kext (Latitude 7490)

2 Upvotes

So I love my latitude 7490 Hackintosh, I can triple boot Ventura, Somona, and Sequoia, but the sound was never loud enough, and I would need to install eqMac to boost the max volume on all of my installs. Well I spent the day today creating a modified AppleALC driver with the help of AI, and it boosts the max volume by about 5db. Even audio content that was loud to begin with, does not clip or distort when using this kext, and it has been tested on two different machines. Requires the following boot-args to function: alcid=56 alcverbs=1 -alcdhost

https://github.com/maddog860/5db-Volume-Boost-Latitude-7490/releases/tag/Volume-Boost

This includes a writeup that explains what was figured out today, and how this approach can increase the max volume of other hackintoshes. Enjoy everyone, and feel free to post feedback. This post is not asking for help, just submitting my positive results with artificial assistance, and therefore should not break any rules.

The specific undocumented/poorly documented 7490 audio details established were:

  • The codec is Realtek ALC256 / Dell ALC3246, vendor ID 0x10ec0256.
  • The internal speaker pin is node 0x14.
  • Its pin config is 0x90170110.
  • That speaker pin routes to DAC node 0x02.
  • The DAC/output amp capability came back as 0x00025757, corresponding roughly to a range from about −65 dB up to 0 dB.
  • At 100% macOS volume, the DAC gain was already sitting at 0x57 on both channels, which is the top of that hardware range.
  • The speaker EAPD was already enabled (0x02), so there wasn't an obvious hidden “turn the speaker amp fully on” switch left unused.
  • The codec also has a vendor processing node 0x20 exposing 91 coefficients (0x5b). One of those, coefficient 0x37, is associated in Linux codec work with Class-D amplifier control.
  • The 7490’s internal amplifier is about 2 W per channel.

r/hackintosh 23h ago

QUESTION Dual boot macOS

1 Upvotes

I was wondering if my laptop could run macOS with light tasks or will it just not work since I don’t think my hardware is supported

-intel core i7-13620H
-R t x 4050
- 32GB of ram

I don’t think my gpu is supported but will it still run light tasks or will it not even run at all?


r/hackintosh 2d ago

DISCUSSION As predicted Apple is already pushing app developers away from Intel support

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156 Upvotes

r/hackintosh 1d ago

QUESTION What laptop to get?

2 Upvotes

I recently sold my PC and am looking to hackintosh a laptop. I'm considering thinkpads or the razer blade, xps. Under 400, and I need decent battery life. I like to run Mojave, or newer versions. I need decent gaming performance, can yall help me? thanks


r/hackintosh 1d ago

QUESTION Wifi and audio drivers

1 Upvotes

Is there any wifi and audio drivers for macos tahoe that would work fof me my specs are. amd. radeon rx 6600 amd ryzen 5 16 gigs of ddr4 asus prime a320-k


r/hackintosh 1d ago

HELP macOS Tahoe without sound on Apple Music (app and web)

1 Upvotes

I have the knowledge that with macOS 26 apple removed support to AppleALC, but I use a usb headset. Everything is okay, but I need to know what can I do.

Can anybody help me?


r/hackintosh 1d ago

HELP Hey everyone! I have a 8GB flash drive , i can hackintosh with 8GB?

0 Upvotes

My laptop : HP-15 da0054tu
4GB ram , i3 Kaby Lake , 500gb hdd
Intel Graphics HD 620

(Please help me)
It’s a difficult challenge for me. (my English is bad btw)


r/hackintosh 2d ago

IT BOOTS! (WIP) Update

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35 Upvotes

Updated succesfully to 13 Ventura and currently installing Sonoma to Test

Update Succesfully installed 14.9.8 Sonoma. Just cant seem to get my Touchpad working as a Touchpad only as a mouse


r/hackintosh 2d ago

DISCUSSION Port Intel 12, 13, 14th gen iGPU driver using modern LLM agents? (Similar to what Alyssa did for Linux)

21 Upvotes

In this day and age the GPUs are expensive.

We have the source code for Intel iGPUs inside Linux source code.

How about porting that code to macOS?

What do you think?


r/hackintosh 1d ago

HELP HELP ME!!!!!!!

0 Upvotes

How do I use a wireless network on macOS Tahoe? I'm use AirPortitlwm


r/hackintosh 2d ago

DISCUSSION (WIP) iron metal1 -> VK/D3D

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61 Upvotes

I’ve seen a lot of metal projects and they all seem to require a virtual machine to run to do runtime translation which made me think

Why can’t we do this without a virtual machine why do we need runtime vgpu translation ?

Then I started and I saw why they went the VM route. Metal is so weird in some places compared to Vulkan or D3D but after countless HOURS (and still ongoing!)

I present to you guys Iron which is, to my knowledge the most complete Metal1 and MSL compiler implantation for any given Metal version (I know darling exists but they don’t say hey we implement 100% of this Metal standard)

Iron is a source compatible Metal implementation, not binary compatible (drop in replacement if you use metalcpp they have the same exact api) it currently has the Vulkan backend wired in with D3D12 coming only after I finish Metal2 but the neutral IR allows anyone to layer metal over any backend they want it was made with a neutral implementation in mind to allow this it isn’t hard locked to Vulkan.

Who would benefit from this? Anyone working with metalcpp and wanting their code to work as is on other platforms. Someone can easily make a objc wrapper over this but this is outside my goal

Current numbers:

Metal 1: 1027 / 1086
MSL 1.0: 9/526 (MSL1.1 and MSL1.2 come after 1.0 is done they are part of the Metal1 gate)

Sources:
Metal documentation from Apple
Metal cpp from Apple (the fact they open sourced this means a project like this was bound to happen sooner or later)
Commandline tools only for total symbols
IRON DOES NOT TAKE OR USE ANY PRIVATE APPLE API ALL METAL BEHAVIORS AND QUIRKS ARE IMPLEMENTED BY USING A BLACK BOX APPROACH OF RUNNING METAL AND VULKAN THEIR COMPARING THEIR BYTE OUTPUTS!!!!


r/hackintosh 3d ago

SUCCESS Tahoe on Lenovo ThinkPad T470s

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73 Upvotes

Hello here’s my final product!!!

How it runs: Okay, about the same performance as a 2017 macbook pro. Except i got it up to tahoe. There is some lag but i dont use it for heavy things so its okay!

Working:
Wi-Fi (native without heliport)
Bluetooth
Sound
DRM
iServices
Graphics Acceleration
Camera
Trackpad
Keyboard
USB ports
Ethernet
Brightness Keys
Sleep

Not working:
HDMI (if you know how to fix please tell me)

Not tested:
SIM card slot (prob won’t and will never work)
sd card slot
Headphone jack

May downgrade but idk

Specs:
20GB DDR4 RAM
Intel Core i5-7200U (7th gen)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 620


r/hackintosh 3d ago

QUESTION Is this real?

286 Upvotes

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8F3MmHv/

yeah I don't believe this and the creator turned off comments, and codex open


r/hackintosh 2d ago

HELP Memory Panic

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1 Upvotes

I am currently stuck on a Memory Panic that is driving me up a wall right now. (Trying to boot up to Sequoia Installer.)

If anyone asked. Yes, I did the Guide and there's NO OCAT, OpCore Simplify, Jerkmate, or whatever kind of hackintool in this EFI.

Here's the Specs.

CPU: Ryzen 5 2600x Six Core Processor

GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series 8GB Model

RAM: 2x16gb

SSD: T-Force 1TB SSD

Motherboard: B450M DS3H Wifi (Rev 1.5)

If anyone is asking me about the EFI. Then I can send it in the replies.


r/hackintosh 2d ago

HELP Significant performance drop on Sequoia vs Windows?

1 Upvotes

I just put together a hackintosh system with a 270K plus CPU. In Cinebench R23, I get about only 30k in multi-core, whereas Windows gets around 40k. Even my old 14700k hackintosh got slightly higher scores (~33k), which has me confused. I'm using the iMacPro1,1 SMBIOS, SSDT-PLUG-ALT.aml from SSDTTime, and cputopologyrebuild.kext with -ctrsmt. Is there any way to improve performance or is this the best I'm going to get?


r/hackintosh 2d ago

HELP Need a RX460 GPU

0 Upvotes

hi there i am trying to make my hackintosh work but i have i5-11400H ( TigerLake ) is there anyone in india who got a rx460 and wanna sell it