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I tried doing this the other day, hoping that I would finally be able to get a working OSX setup on my desktop (have made several attempts with no success at getting it working bare-metal on my Z600). Sadly it just ended with more kernel panics, something I was hoping would be avoided as I got the impression from some sources that QEMU was a more straightforward solution than trying to run it on bare-metal.

Having said that, I've been getting more and more frustrated with OSX (had a great experience with Leopard on a PowerBook G4, and my 2013 MacBook Air is easily the best laptop I've owned, however personally I don't care for the direction that they are taking OSX these days), and ended up using it as an excuse to update to the latest version of elementary OS, which certainly isn't without its teething problems.

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That's a bit old. Modern Hackentoshes are actually pretty solid on consumer hardware. Z79/Z79, Z170 are pretty much fully supported. Some forum posters claim they've gotten dual 4th Xeon boards to work.

I set one up on my Z79+i7-4790k. It was a breeze. Took about 90minutes following tutorials. My biggest problems were:

-I set up the wrong sound driver

-Nvidia won't detect/modify hot plugging displays you have to manually edit OSX's version of xorg.conf

-Apple's Nvidia driver didn't support GSync or 144Hz. So I had to dealing with image tearing :\

-Non Apple keyboards had weird character mismatching. Had to purchase an Apple USB keyboard.

I ended up reverting because I like my IBM Model M, and losing hardware level vsync was a no-go.

> Apple's Nvidia driver didn't support GSync or 144Hz. So I had to dealing with image tearing :\

The Mac drivers Nvidia released yesterday finally support G-Sync.

> Non Apple keyboards had weird character mismatching. Had to purchase an Apple USB keyboard.

You can fix this by not skipping the keyboard setup wizard that pops up when you plug in an unknown keyboard.

I actually never got the popup. IBM Model M is PS/2 not USB so it has to be plugged in on boot as the UEFI/Bios won't let you hot plug.

You probably could have used a PS/2 -> USB adapter.

Actually no IBM M has a >500mA inrush draw so

-Not all converters support it

-Some converters that support it, are disabled by the motherboard as the converter is exceeding spec.

    but valarauca why don't you use an externally powered hub?

I've actually tired 4 different models, none have worked. I've just accepted that using a PS/2 plug on the motherboard is less of a head ache.

I do have a PS/2 -> USB converter that works, but only with 1 of my motherboards (a VIA). Except it knocks out the other USB port stacked above/below it. I don't plug anything into that port for the PS/2 -> USB converter, just that port will never recognize something is plugged into it. I think it is a power draw issue.

-Non Apple keyboards had weird character mismatching. Had to purchase an Apple USB keyboard.

Karabiner is useful for this - for pretty much every keyboard layout you have a tick that remaps it to PC keyboard.

Unfortunately Karabiner is broken on Sierra; they are working on workarounds though. -- macOS Sierra support status

Karabiner does not work on macOS Sierra at the moment.

We are developing Karabiner-Elements which provides simple key modification for macOS Sierra at first. (Karabiner-Elements works on macOS Sierra except prefernces GUI.) --- https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

I clean installed macOS Sierra on my 2013 Macbook Air this week it seems just fine to me. So far, I only have a couple of issues with it:

1) more bloat (but almost every OS has this problem).

2) cuts off support for some older Macs for no good reason.

One thing I really like the new default terminal font: San Francisco Mono. I don't know if that font is new to the OS entirely but I really like it.

I also really like that you can have the Finder sort folders before files. This should have been added a long time ago, but better late than never.

A clean install of Sierra is actually smaller than El Capitan, so it depends how you define bloat.

SF Mono is indeed new. Thank you for pointing that out. I missed it. Very nice.

The reason they cut off older macs was due to them not having AES accel in the CPU, so there was a small reason for it.

From the ARS review: "It’s not related to AES encryption acceleration, since there are Core 2 Duo and Core i3 CPUs in supported Macs that don’t support Intel’s AES-NI acceleration."

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/09/macos-10-12-sierra-the-...

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