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I'll be building a Hackintosh with 64 gb or ram and the latest processors and ssd. There is a strong community for that now and it's apparently more robust than it used to be. Here's a good article by one developer on his experience: https://medium.com/swlh/building-my-1-200-hackintosh-49a1a18...

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> My audio doesn’t work

From the article.

Not sure why people still pass this around as if it's positive.

It probably can be patched with this: https://github.com/toleda/audio_CloverALC

You can also use a USB headset as I do.

It's unavoidable. Most PC motherboards everything is swappable to the Mac equivalent. You can change the wifi daughter card for a compatible model. You can change the video card for a compatible model. You can't change the built in audio chip that's on the motherboard. But you can alleviate it with a superior USB DAC

> Not sure why people still pass this around as if it's positive.

Well, there IS a site out there that lists 100% compatible hardware which includes (yes!) working Audio and other hardware.

To be clear, his audio jack doesn't work. He gets audio via USB. So no less broken than an iPhone 7.

I approve of this burn.

Given the state of macOS virtualization with KVM, and how easy it is to find processors/motherboards with VT-d, I don't understand why people bother trying to get it to run on bare metal. Instead of having to choose almost every component super carefully, you just need to be careful about your graphics card and linux support for everything else.

The main strike against it I can think of is the performance hit for nested virtualization if you want to use something like Parallels or Docker inside macOS, but you can virtualize "sideways" without too much more effort in a lot of cases.

Man, 64GB of RAM For $229. I remember buying 8MB for more than that...

64G ought to be enough for anybody.

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