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I bought the "base" on Allegro (a Polish online marketplace): a Lenovo ThinkCentre V530S case complete with the power supply and motherboard.

I put the following parts into it:

- An i7-9700T — a low-power 9th-gen i7 that I picked up for PLN 150 / $40

- 32 GB of RAM — bought from a pawn shop back when prices were still low, for next to nothing

- A 512 GB WD NVMe SSD — PLN 150 / $40

- Fenvi T919 WiFi card — PLN 70 / $20

- A 12th-gen i7 cooler with a copper core, which I modified myself to fit on LGA1151 mounting holes, because Lenovo’s stock aluminium cooler was dra-ma-ti-cal-ly loud

I spent two days getting macOS Sequoia 15.7.9 running on it — and it worked! 🙂 After that, there was still quite a bit of tinkering required to get Wi-Fi and AirDrop working, but I eventually managed that too.

Today, I added a 3 TB HDD and a 4 GB RX 550 that I had to spoof as an RX 560.

I’m still waiting for an adapter from AliExpress that converts a standard internal 9-pin USB header to Lenovo’s proprietary 11-pin connector. In the meantime, I temporarily rigged the Wi-Fi card’s USB connection so I could route the cable out through the back of the case and plug it into an USB port on the back.

Basically everything that I can think of - works

I’ve genuinely tried everything I can find and it has done this over and over and over without any change.

The first NO NAME brings me into the second picture. The second no name brings me into my limine bootloader for cachyos.

I’ve tried Tahoe and sequoia, tried to change around so much stuff in the config files, etc. etc. but I’ve got no clue

Specs:
Intel i5-11600k
Radeon 6700xt
MSI Z590-A Pro
32gb DDR4 Corsair Vengeance (4 sticks)
Samsung 980 500gb
Some random hdd 500gb

I’m taking a swift programming class at school and I don’t have any mac computers so I need it to work

Sequoia running on Thinkpad T14 Gen 1 AMD . It's not perfect OpenCore Wifi not working yet currently using Heliport. Headphone jack also not working properly. Laptop running kinda hot compared to GNU/Linux. Since this is new to me . I still need to test the system more. But other than that everything seems to be working properly. I would called this as a success .

Linked is the driver used for my BCM94360NG, it is a modified AirportBrcmFixup.kext version 2.1.9 (Both the Release and Debug versions, that have been patched to allow NSS:2).

Taken directly from my github post:

The following boot-args were used to get my Sonoma/Ventura setup working cold boot.
alcid=13 watchdog=0 brcmfx-delay=300

(shortened explanation of fix)

This has been tested with Sonoma and Ventura, and works very reliably for me. This fix does not artificially report NSS:2 or generally force Wi-Fi settings. It prevents Apple’s driver from incorrectly disabling the second transmit chain in one instance.

From a cold boot, my BCM94360NG comes up with both TX chains enabled and maintains NSS:2 without needing the Windows-boot workaround. Survives sleep (windows work arround would revert back to NSS:1 previously in my case). Some users were able to get it to work just using the AirportBrcmFixup version 2.1.9 so that is the version I chose to base this kext on. It might work with Mac OS Sequoia, someone will need to confirm. Both release and debug versions included.

Note: For MacOS Sonoma or later you must use OpenCore Legacy Patcher in order to get BCM94360NG card functioning, as Sonoma removed driver support for this card. Latest version of Sonoma and Ventura were used successfully. This was made with the assistance of AI.

Technical Details:

The problem with BCM94360NG was that on a cold macOS boot, the Broadcom driver applied a single-transmit-chain constraint, leaving the card at NSS:1 instead of NSS:2. The fix was found by comparing the good NSS:2 state with the bad NSS:1 state (good state initiated by booting into Windows first), then instrumenting and reverse-engineering Apple’s Broadcom driver. That led to the internal function _wlc_stf_txchain_set. Then discovered that it takes four arguments, and logging showed the bad path was specifically setting: constraint/reason 2 to a chain value of 0x1, whereas the working state used 0x3.

The custom AirportBrcmFixup patch hooks that function and changes only that specific bad case: reason == 2 && txchain == 1 → change the chain mask to 0x3Then it lets Apple’s original function continue normally.So the fix doesn't artificially report NSS:2 or generally force Wi-Fi settings. It prevents Apple’s driver from incorrectly disabling the second transmit chain in that one situation. The result is that the BCM94360NG comes up with both TX chains enabled and maintains NSS:2 without needing the Windows-boot workaround.

Download link:

https://github.com/maddog860/BCM94360NG-NSS-2-Fix-AirportBrcmFixup.kext/releases/tag/BCM94360NG-NSS2-Fix

Please test this driver, then post your feedback! Thanks!

I thought I should mention this, because I've seen a lot of people start working on XNU again, which is great to see as a PureDarwin maintainer (been working on it for ~3 years). Might as well post this before it becomes old news.

Here's it asking for a rootfs on a RPi Zero, using lk as a preboot env.
It's slower than hell, and the HDMI cable itself is spotty

Oh and I also have it booting to a shell on a iPad 7,1

As well as QEMU's `virt` board, I have yet to figure out Apple-specific instructions for M1, but I have ideas. I was last working on fixing OpenGL for virtio-gpu on arm64

I hope Hackintosh can continue in the form of generic arm64/arm32 boards, and I hope my research can help.

I'll be working on a Pixel once I get my hands on it (hurry up, USPS)

CPU: BCM2835
GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV
RAM: 512MiB LPDDR2
Motherboard/Laptop Make and Model: Raspberry Pi Zero (v1.2)
Audio Codec: N/A
Ethernet Card: N/A
Wifi/BT Card: N/A
Touchpad and touch display devices: N/A
BIOS revision: N/A

Recently, a user named @TheLunarixus made a post on the 17th of August (Yesterday as of posting this) showing a Google Pixel 8 attempting to boot the kernel (though a kernel panic has been shown). Darwin 25.6.0 RELEASE_ARM64_VMAPPLE corresponds to Mac OS Tahoe.

Today this user has made some updates and also confirmed that the vphone userland can also be booted using the same kexts used in VMAPPLE1, which gives a possibility of booting both iOS and Mac OS on custom unofficial hardware.

Sources: https://x.com/TheLunarixus/status/2089261568777199719, https://x.com/TheLunarixus/status/2089636278392193120, https://x.com/TheLunarixus/status/2089636759877394540, https://x.com/TheLunarixus/status/2089649494379905323

I know that this post is unrelated majorly for this community, but with further Proof of Concepts coming out like this proves that booting Apple Silicon Mac OS can be possible under bare metal generic hardware.

Edit: I was hoping to palemoon and browse on aqua for some reason, but the lack of gpu support and networking is going to make me switch to linux instead.

with my understanding, that is probably a yes, but I’m not sure. I use ATI 4500 graphics btw. Aiming for 10.9 2gb of ram.

My first ever hackintosh! proud to be part of this amazing community

This was an old mini pc my family abandoned. Monterey runs fine, feels smooth-ish with 3 firefox tabs and discord open. it is about as big as a newer mac mini so it plays the part quite well 😄

oclp is probably not worth it with this kind of hardware.

SPECS

Intel NUC5i5RYH 
- CPU: Intel Core i5-5250U  
- GPU: Intel HD Graphics 6000 
- RAM:  SO-DIMM DDR3L 1333/1600MHz 8GB 
- Storage: 250gb Samsung SATAIII SSD 
- Ethernet: Intel I218-V, Gigabit 
- Wi-Fi/BT: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265, Bluetooth 4.2 (not macOS-compatible) 
- Audio: Realtek ALC
- Video out: Mini-HDMI 1.4a, Mini DisplayPort 1.2  
- PSU: 12–19V DC external 
- Chassis: 115 x 111 x 49mm (UCFF 4"x4")

WORKING:

- Grapical acceleration
- Wifi (with AirportItlwm)
- Audio
- Sleep/wake

NOT WORKING:

- Bluethoot for hardware limitations.

I have a lenovo ideapad gaming 3 with the following specs:
Ryzen 5 5600h with integrated gpu
Gtx 1650(i already heard that it’s not supported)
Wifi card: Realtek RTL8852AE WiFi 6 802.11ax PCle Adapter
And 8gb ddr4 ram