r/hackintosh • • Jun 09 '25

ANNOUNCEMENT Next Stop: macOS 26 Tahoe

204 Upvotes

Hackintoshing lives for another year! macOS Tahoe will be the FINAL release for Intel Macs, as stated during the Platforms State of the Union presentation. It's been a good ride.

Officially supported Intel models:

  • MacBook Pro 16-inch (2019)
  • Mac Pro (2019)
  • MacBook Pro 13-inch, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports (2020)
  • iMac (2020)

Hello I am a Year Number Lover But What Does This Mean

All graphics that worked in Sequoia should work in Tahoe.

OCLP

Wait for an official announcement. If you post about OCLP before that I am going to send Tim Apple to remove every Mac from your house.

Can I emulate ARM macOS 26 on x86?

No.

Can I run ARM macOS 26 on a Raspberry Pi?

No.

Can I have Apple Intelligence on Intel please I need to write a dissertation in 15 minutes

No.

Does it boot on Intel Hackintoshes now?

Yes, with OpenCore 1.0.5.

Make sure to upgrade all of your kexts to their latest versions.

Known Issues as of Beta 2

  • Race condition with VoodooPS2 and VoodooI2C, so on some boots they don't initialize properly
  • AppleALC is broken because AppleHDA was removed from Tahoe. Use HDMI/DP audio for the time being.

  • WhateverGreen is bugged on AMD cards, so you can't use boot arguments like agdpmod=pikera. You are affected by this if you get a kernel panic with AMDSupport mentioned.

  • IntelBTPatcher causes kernel panics

  • IntelMausi may not work correctly with certain Intel ethernet chipsets


r/hackintosh • • Jun 10 '26

ANNOUNCEMENT End of the Road: macOS 27 Golden Gate

324 Upvotes

apolgy for bad english

where were u wen intel die

i was at house eating apple when phone ring

'intel is kil'

'no'

As I'm sure we've all heard by now, macOS 27 will not be compatible with Intel Macs. This means that for all intents and purposes, (Intel) Hackintosh is dead.

I have never heard of this where was my daily update for the last year

Apple explained last year during WWDC 2026's after-events that macOS 26 Tahoe would be the last version for Intel Macs. also go read the news more often smh

Ok but I have an AMD that would work right

All x86 CPUs are no longer supported for macOS.

Will my current hackintosh explode

Yes No

Is Intel completely dead right now

macOS 15 Sequoia and macOS 26 Tahoe will still be supported for security updates. One more year for Sequoia, two three for Tahoe.

Will my software still work

It is up to the developers of the software to keep releasing Intel versions.

Can I hack ing tosh on other ARM processor

No.

Why not, is ARM not ARM everywhere

Although ARM is an instruction set architecture shared by many processors, Apple hardware and software includes many unique instructions that are not used in other ARM processors and currently cannot be emulated.

There are images released by Apple for use in VMs which technically do not use these instructions, but even if a way is figured to boot it on non-Apple devices, there will be no drivers available for the GPU, Audio, etc.

Is even Developer Beta 1 of Golden Gate incompatible

Too much has already been removed from the first beta for it to be compatible with Intel.

ChatGTP told me ARM hackintosh is real and can be made. Actually I will make it right now with Claude and Gemini

Let's get you back to bed grandma

Can we port ARM macOS to x86

No.

Will r/hackintosh still remain open

Yes, it will remain open. Regardless of whether Intel is supported, people will still try to hackintosh either for a specific use case or just for curiosity's sake.


r/hackintosh • • 2h ago

SUCCESS This still feels unreal…

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86 Upvotes

Never thought I’d see the day where modern NVIDIA GPUs have full metal acceleration within macOS 😮‍💨👌🏻


r/hackintosh • • 14h ago

SUCCESS I DID IT! macOS Tahoe running on GTX 1050

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179 Upvotes

I CANT BELIVE IT ACTUALLY WORKED LMAO

Black screen fix process in the comments


r/hackintosh • • 6h ago

SUCCESS Well got a basic Hackintosh.

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20 Upvotes

Running on a ASRock H310CM-DVS, (no Wi-Fi or BT), Intel Core i7-9700, 32GB of DDR4 ram, and an RX6600 (8GB)

Kinda my first Hackintosh. i did a HackBook Pro on a HP EliteBook a while back but i wanted something more, so i did this one. honestly runs so much better than i anticipated.

I do need suggestions on some good Wi-Fi + BT cards, I don't need continuity or handoff, though they would be appreciated!


r/hackintosh • • 2h ago

SUCCESS Successful Hackintosh: macOS 26.7.1 on i7-12700F

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8 Upvotes

I swapped the R.T.X 3050 8GB OC card for an RX 580 SP 2048 and flashed it with the MSI Armor RX 570 ROM; the GPU is recognized by the drivers in both Windows and macOS, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth work perfectly (except for features like AirDrop or Handoff, as I am using an Intel Wi-Fi card), while other functions—such as sleep mode—work fine.

Specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7-12700F

Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI

GPU: Ellesmere RX 580 8GB 2048SP (VBIOS: MSI RX 570)

RAM: DDR5 4800 32GB

Ethernet Card: Intel Ethernet Controller I225-V


r/hackintosh • • 14h ago

SUCCESS Finally Booted

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67 Upvotes

My PC is a intel i7-6700K, R T X 3060 12GB, 32GB of DDR4. Weird bug that i got tho is that all my dark and normal blues are purple i have no clue why i havent seen anyone else talk about it so it seems like it is just me that is having this strange bug. Btw if you haven’t seen this is, it is all done with nullmoth’s NVIDIA MacOS Driver, here is the link: https://github.com/nullmoth/nvidia-macos-driver


r/hackintosh • • 10h ago

SUCCESS (RELEASE) RTW89 for macOS

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27 Upvotes

Hello everyone, sorry for the late release, we had to do some last minute patches and stability improvements so the kext is mostly stable for public use. However, all is done, and I am releasing the source code and the kext for everyone here.

In the repo there is insctructions on how to download and use the kext, there is an automatic installer for all OS's too. Feel free to report any bugs in my DMs or through GitHub Repo as this kext is still in Beta. AirDrop is still WIP. Thank you to my beta testers who helped me fix issues for the cards! Notably u/Left-Yam-6166, u/nphuly, u/elcomix97 and u/CVE-2026 and many more!

https://github.com/FranciumOS-org/Airport_RTW89


r/hackintosh • • 12h ago

SUCCESS SUCCESS! macOS Tahoe 26.7.1 working on INTEL HD 4600 on Dell Optiplex 7020 SFF

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20 Upvotes

Just fixed the internal gpu with OCLP 3.0.0 RC2, those guys are angels!


r/hackintosh • • 7h ago

QUESTION Which macOS version works best for Hackintosh on the HP 205 G8 AIO with a Ryzen 3 5425U?

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8 Upvotes

Hello everyone,
I have an HP 205 G8 All-in-One PC with the following specifications:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 5425U
RAM: 8 GB DDR4 3200 MHz
Storage: 256 GB M.2 NVMe SSD
I would like to install macOS on this computer using OpenCore.
Which macOS version would be the best choice for my hardware in terms of stability, performance, and compatibility? I’m looking for the smoothest and most trouble-free Hackintosh setup possible.
Which version of macOS would you recommend, and are there any known compatibility issues with this hardware?
Thanks in advance!


r/hackintosh • • 14h ago

SUCCESS [SUCCESS] Working!!

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22 Upvotes

Specs:
I5 9500 (UHD 630)
16GB DDR4 RAM
500GB SSD WD Green SN350
ASUS B360M-D Motherboard
RT(X) 2060 as display


r/hackintosh • • 22h ago

DISCUSSION The Hackintosh community is finally getting a fresh breath of air!

94 Upvotes

With the new unofficial Nvidia drivers, maybe the community can make its own version of mac os! What's your opinion on the future of Hackintosh?


r/hackintosh • • 15m ago

DISCUSSION Will macos tahoe hackintosh work on my laptop

• Upvotes

Asus rog zephyrus g16 i7 13620h 4070
Planning to install it on a kingston snv3 ssd


r/hackintosh • • 6h ago

SUCCESS MSI B450 Gaming Plus Tahoe 26.7.1 (25G241)

3 Upvotes
Overall Specs
Patched AppleHDA - Realtek ALC887
Vid Accel was ok on RDNA 2

Last hackintosh on X86 before moving to arm (still saving the funds)

Everything worked here (not sharing the EFI just yet)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core Processor
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT
RAM: Corsair 16 Dual Channel
Motherboard/Laptop Make and Model: MSI B450 Gaming Plus
Audio Codec: Realtek ALC887
Ethernet Card: Realtek RTL8168H/8111H PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
Wifi/BT Card: Realtek USB Wifi (forgot the type)
Touchpad and touch display devices: NA
BIOS revision: Didn't check

What's working : Most of it
what isn't working: AMD-V so no coding or docker stuff


r/hackintosh • • 47m ago

DISCUSSION Does xcode and ios simulator properly works with the null moth nividia hackintosh setups?

• Upvotes

So I was planning to do a hackintosh setup on my laptop using the nullmoth driver. But my main use case is xcode and ios simulator. Can anyone verify it works or not?

my specs:
Lenovo Loq 151rx9
i7 13650hx, 4060 m 8gb
24 gb ram and 1.5 tb ssd.

Also I have a mux switch.


r/hackintosh • • 1d ago

NEWS Nvidia Drivers V1.14 Updates

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142 Upvotes

r/hackintosh • • 1h ago

QUESTION Anyone running Tahoe (macOS 26) with an NVIDIA R-TX/GTX card on the NullMoth driver? How well does it actually work?

• Upvotes

Hey all,

I’ve seen a few screenshots lately of people running Tahoe on NVIDIA cards (GTX 1650, 1050, etc.). Before I try it myself, I’d like to hear from people who actually have it running day to day.

My build:

  • CPU: Intel i3-12100F
  • Board: ASUS PRIME B660M-K D4
  • GPU: R-TX 4060 Ti 8 GB
  • RAM: 16 GB DDR4-3200

The NullMoth driver only officially supports Sequoia right now, and as far as I can tell no 40-series card has been validated yet. So I’m trying to work out whether Tahoe is worth trying or whether I should stay on windows at the moment

If you’ve got Tahoe running on an NVIDIA card, could you share your exprience on

  1. Stability: any crashes, black screens or boot problems? Did a driver update break anything?
  2. Daily use: does it feel like a real Mac, or still laggy or glitchy?

Thanks!


r/hackintosh • • 19h ago

DISCUSSION Searching for Candidates - RX7000 MacOS Support

26 Upvotes

Some of you might know me, some of you might now. Pretty long in the scene.

I have some years of experience developing drivers now, its part of my day to day Job. Few days ago null-moth's Nvidia combo driver has been released which has inspired me to start my own project which will go into nullmoths direction, their driver is inefficient by design, there is no other way to do what they did though.

I am searching for roughly 10-15 people that can run a probe script from a linux environment to log the linux driver behaviour, test the driver and troubleshoot things with me. I do not have a RX7000 series gpu and need your help with this, the broader the device spectrum the better.

Ofcourse then there is the "I will not use AI drivers aspect", no this will not be a vibecoded project. I use AI for mundane things such as non-production GUI, evaluating logs and searching for strings in files, occasionally writing firmware for some gadgets that never see the light of day. Everything else is done by me by hand. AI is a tool and not a human brain replacment.

If you want to take a look at my previous work feel free to take a look at my GitHub. In the past i have mainly done iOS security research / prototype device bringup (patching iBoots, kernels and devicetrees aswell as backporting kexts to future iOS versions, occasionally patching firmware of debug probes)

Github: https://github.com/dssoftx

Many thanks, if you have such a GPU and the knowledge required, please reply here or contact me privately. Thank you!


r/hackintosh • • 14h ago

SUCCESS Successful Update

4 Upvotes

updated from Monterey to Tahoe through settings
pc specs: Sapphire Nitro RX6600XT, ryzen 5 5600, B450M, 240GB SSD


r/hackintosh • • 17h ago

HELP Came to ask for help

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6 Upvotes

Laptop model asus tuf gaming f15 FX506HE

Processor I5

Ram 16gi

macos Sequoia


r/hackintosh • • 13h ago

HELP help pls

2 Upvotes

Ardor Gaming Neo n15(I5 12450H, 16gb ram, rtх3050 6gb)
i use 1401, build efi and i receive after exitbs:start on start kernel kernel panic


r/hackintosh • • 11h ago

DISCUSSION Ampere for Hackintosh?

0 Upvotes

I have had the privilege of using Ampere One's 192 Core CPU and it had me thinking. I know Apple SOC uses special CPU functions not really available on other ARM CPUs...but I wonder if we could theoretically use Ampere based CPUs for Hackintosh going forward.


r/hackintosh • • 11h ago

HELP Can't get around PCI issues (stuck on [ PCI configuration begin ])

1 Upvotes

I made a new Hack this week to have OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.7 on a Packard Bell EasyNote TJ66 laptop. It manages to load into Apple's kernel but gets stuck at [ PCI configuration begin ]. Unfortunately, none of what I've tried has worked, followed everything in the guide:

  1. Missing EC patch -> done
  2. IRQ conflicts -> done
  3. PCI allocation issue -> done, updated the BIOS and tried with no npci flags, npci=0x2000 and npci=0x3000. My BIOS doesn't have neither Above4G nor resizable BAR options, even after the update (it honestly doesn't have much besides very basic options, it's Phoenix 1.31).
  4. NVMe or SATA issue -> No NVMe and BIOS has no options for any of this anyway.
  5. NVRAM Failing -> Don't have any of the listed motherboards that may cause this.
  6. RTC Missing -> Haven't tried but this laptop probably doesn't apply for it.
  7. I also tried enabling RebaseRegions to no effect, with or without the npci flags.

Laptop specs:

  • Model: Packard Bell EasyNote TJ66 (MS2273)
  • Motherboard: SJV50-MV(M) / MS2273
  • CPU: Intel Pentium T4300 @ 2.09 GHz | 1 Processor, 2 Cores
  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce G210M (512 MB)
  • RAM: 4.00 GB DDR2 SDRAM 333MHz
  • BIOS: Phoenix Technologies LTD V1.31

config.plist

Stall screenshot (kernel phase):


r/hackintosh • • 12h ago

QUESTION install macos on vmware or other app

1 Upvotes

hi, sorry if my question is dumb but I'd like to know: is it possible to create a virtual machine using VMware or another similar program to install macOS on it, and have the Wi-Fi and other features work properly?


r/hackintosh • • 1d ago

DISCUSSION Intel wifi airdrop support

7 Upvotes

since in the couple of days i’ve seen many successful stories on GTX dgpu and Xe igpu. is there any hope for intel wifi to fully support airdrop and other continuity?