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I have the same, 9900k with a 5700XT. Catalina works with SIP enabled, FileVault 2 works perfectly, etc. Been doing hackintosh since 2016.

With that said I’m pretty much done with it now that they made the 16 inch MBP. I bought one with the i9 and 64GB of ram and the experience is way better. I don’t need to mess around with clover or update random kexts anymore. It gets old after awhile!

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Do you not ever miss the added power of your hackintosh though? I have a 2017 MBP and it's a great machine but I still love having my big ridiculously powerful desktop with three monitors for when I want that.

The new MacBook Pro is pretty powerful. I have four monitors hooked to mine and the machine is much faster than my five-year-old Hackintosh. I could build a new Hackintosh that would have somewhat better performance than the MacBook, but for me the difference is no longer worth it, so like the previous commenter I'm probably done with building Hackintoshes for now.

I totally get that. In all honesty, in a rational world a MacBook is more than enough performance for me (and it's actually what I use at work), but there's still very much an enthusiast alive in me that loves my over the top desktop.

The desktop is undeniably faster, but because of what I mainly use it for these days (digital art) I only really get benefit from single core performance and lots of memory. The difference between the 9900K and the 9980HK in this regard is imperceptible.

I'm just going to turn the desktop into a Windows gaming rig now :V

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