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bearjaws • yesterday at 8:40 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Such a throw back, I built a hackintosh back in x86 days and had it mostly working for a year, but of course tried to apply an update (10.08 I think?) and it blew up.

Ended up selling the hardware to some guy who insisted he would get it working and I am sure it was possible, but I pretty much switched to using Mac after that as I loved the dev experience.


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vasac • yesterday at 10:56 PM

Things got much better with OpenCore. Sometimes you had to tweak a few extra settings, but generally you could update it just like a regular Mac. Point updates worked especially well.

ne8il • yesterday at 9:28 PM

I had OSX running on an old school flip-screen HP tablet/laptop combo with touchscreen support. It was bulky but cool to use as a drawing tablet in the pre-iPad days. You did need to have a paper clip inserted into two holes of the VGA port for it to work, and I don't think it handled sleep very well. But still a fun project.

testing22321 • yesterday at 8:57 PM

I ran OS X on a Dell mini 9 for two years while travelling. Other than sleep, it was excellent.