- Apple Tahoe’s macOS is the final version to support Intel fleas
- This means that the death of the hackintosh is near
- This is sad news for the community of breakfasts and personalized PC manufacturers
Apple raised the cover on MacOS Tahoe at its WWDC 2025 event earlier in June, and one thing he announced at the address of the platform state is that this software update would be the last to take care of the Mac Intel. This had the effect of putting the last nail in the coffin of the humble hackintosh, and it left me more than a little sad.
If you don’t know, a hackintosh is a computer that runs MacOS on personalized PC equipment. Apple does not support or does not tolerate these computers, so building a require a lot of complex work and specific files that convince the macOS it works on Apple approved components.
Part of the equation is that a hackintosh generally requires an Intel chip. You cannot buy Apple silicon tokens on the shelf, but with recent macOS versions supporting Intel processors, it was an essential alternative.
With Apple abandoning this support, it is the end of the road for Hackintoshes.
We knew this day was going to arrive
For many years, I was fascinated by the idea of building a hackintosh. I have long been frustrated by the daily quirks of Windows, but I love to build PC too much to go all on MacOS. A hackintosh looked like an ideal way to get your hand, to build a powerful computer capable of working and playing, while obtaining all the softness and rich macos features.
But with the constant difficulties increase in the construction of a hackintosh and increasingly complex bypass solutions that were necessary to make it work, I have never taken the plunge.
Years ago, a hackintosh was the best of both worlds: the material performance that Apple could simply not provide and the software functionality and the stability that were sorely lacking. But now that Apple Silicon offers enormous performance – even in demanding games like Cyberpunk 2077Something formerly considered unthinkable for a Mac – the need for hacking has decreased.
Despite the news, everyone in the Hackintosh community has not taken the news. Even before Apple’s announcement, I occasionally browsed the Hackintosh forums, and the advice was often the same: modern Macs did a lot of what Hackintoshes decided to achieve.
They offer much more blows for your money than before (the M4 Mac Mini is a good example), and unless you fill the specific niche to love both MacOS and the DIY computer building and refuses to obtain a Mac and a PC, the own products of Apple do the work. Many of the most recent reactions are in the same direction.
Maybe someone will find a way to operate Hackintoshes on Apple Silicon. But with the difficult security measures that Apple has integrated into its chips, it is far from being guaranteed. While many in the community take the news well, I can’t help but feel disappointed for what we are going to lose.
