{"id":42896,"date":"2024-04-22T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42896"},"modified":"2024-04-22T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:56:24","slug":"hackintosh-is-almost-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/22\/hackintosh-is-almost-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackintosh Is Almost Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aplus.rs\/2024\/hackintosh-almost-dead\/\">Aleksandar Vaci&#x107;<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=39728146\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/post\/39082\/end-of-hackintosh-road\/#more-39082\">Ric Ford<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/aplus.rs\/2024\/hackintosh-almost-dead\/\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s true that latest macOS 14 (Sonoma) still supports the latest generations of Intel Macs and it&rsquo;s very likely that at least one or two major versions will still be compatible. But there&rsquo;s one particular development that is de-facto killing off the Hackintosh scene.<\/p>\n<p>In Sonoma, <strong>Apple has completely removed all traces of driver support for their oldest WiFi\/Bt cards<\/strong>, namely various Broadcom cards that they last used in 2012\/13 iMac \/ MacBook models. Those Mac models are not supported by macOS for few years now thus it&rsquo;s not surprising the drivers are being removed. Most likely reason is that Apple is moving drivers away from <code>.kext<\/code> (Kernel Extensions) to <code>.dext<\/code> (DriverKit) thus cleaning up obsolete and unused code from macOS. They did the same with Ethernet drivers in Ventura.<\/p>\n<p>Those particular cards were the key ingredient to many fully functional Hackintosh builds for simple reason: they worked out of the box with every single (so-called) iService Apple has: Messages, FaceTime, AirDrop, Continuity, Handoff - you name it. <em>Everything worked.<\/em> Despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/dortania.github.io\/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher\/SONOMA-DROP.html#versioning\">valiant efforts of OCLP crew<\/a> to make workarounds, those cards can work in Sonoma <em>only<\/em> if you <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/perez987\/Broadcom-wifi-back-on-macOS-Sonoma-by-OCLP\">seriously downgrade<\/a> the macOS security.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/the-modern-hackintosh\/\">The Modern Hackintosh<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleksandar Vaci&#x107; (via Hacker News, Ric Ford): It&rsquo;s true that latest macOS 14 (Sonoma) still supports the latest generations of Intel Macs and it&rsquo;s very likely that at least one or two major versions will still be compatible. But there&rsquo;s one particular development that is de-facto killing off the Hackintosh scene. In Sonoma, Apple has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-04-22T20:56:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"11b0cf72-dbc9-4453-a637-6d16b1335da0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-04-22T20:56:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AEbDPctvJRFOmN20WsTNdoA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[422,1402,828,30,2385,1235,187],"class_list":["post-42896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bluetooth","tag-hackintosh","tag-kernel-extensions","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-system-integrity-protection","tag-wifi"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42897,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42896\/revisions\/42897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}