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OpenCore is nice, but funnily enough it's still subject to the same "supported hardware" crap - I was tooold that macOS 10.14 won't run on my 10th gen Intel CPU, because the CPU is "too new". I haven't been able to get it to boot using OpenCore yet, so there's a pretty good chance that's accurate, but it's pretty depressing, considering how x86 is supposed to be backwards compatible and all.

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But x86 is backwards compatible, it is Mac OS that is neither backwards nor forwards compatible. Windows NT4 up to v10 will run on anything from original pentium to latest 12 gen intel and most AMD CPUs. Windows 11 will also run on all 64bit x86 CPUs but it won't install without some fiddling.

With Mac OS the drivers are packaged in the OS itself. So older OSes may not have drivers for things like graphics on newr systems.

I haven't looked into it, but I'm guessing that sibling comments reporting newer Intel CPUs working will require spoofing to make them look like 9th gen CPUs (similar to how AMD machines are hackintoshed).

This is assuming that the machine in question is a desktop with a supported (basically just recent AMD) GPU, though — macOS isn't capable of GPU accelerated UI using the iGPU on 10th (or maybe 11th, not sure) gen and up because the drivers aren't present in the OS.

Your 10th gen will run just fine with OpenCore and the proper settings. People are running it with 12th gen CPUs.

Now I'm curious if it's possible to boot up 10.6 or 10.9 on new hardware.

For newer Intel hardware, 32 bit support would be an issue

Why would it be? AFAIK the latest x86 CPUs, despite using EFI BIOS, still start off in 16-bit realmode at the reset vector, and most if not all of the BIOS code is going to be 32-bit protected mode code.

There was a thread about running older versions of OSX and macos:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31164521

In that thread, you get to learn how you can run latest chromium on Maverics. Firefox is a toast now. General rule of thumb being don't run old OS and old browser on internet-facing machine.

you could still get mac minis that would run 10.9 officially without the headaches. (2012 vintage ...)

EDIT: There are drivers missing for newer hardware in 10.6-10.9. Haven't tried if OCLP could help with this.

For what it’s worth I have Opencore running on 12900k without a hitch

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