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if you've dived

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Dove div into the world of computer

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building you might have noticed a Common Thread in most howto guides out there on

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the internet they almost all end showing

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you how to configure Windows after you're done piecing everything together

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but what if you've grown tired of Cortana the start menu or lack thereof

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and that frowny faed blue screen of death

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and you want a different kind of computing experience well you could

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choose one of a number of free Linux distributions as we discussed in this

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episode but some people find themselves

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irresistibly drawn to the interface of

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macOS just not to the high price tag

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Apple says tough luck to you bud but

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fear not a community has popped up

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around building hackintoshes PCS that run macOS on

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non-apple Hardware but how does this

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process work just throw macOS onto a

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USB drive boot from it and click

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install yeah no first of all Apple only

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guarantees compatibility for macOS with

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a very limited number of Hardware

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configurations there's unlike Windows which is supposed

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to work on any x86 or x86 64 based

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system provided it meets the minimum requirements so how in the world then

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are you supposed to know what will be

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compatible well although there isn't really a good way to know if the extreme

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gamer over 9,000 motherboard will work with macOS outside of just trying it

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and seeing what happens the Hackintosh Community has actually compiled lists of

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components that users have had good luck with on websites like

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osx86 and dsdt all right then so once you've built

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your system or verified that your existing one is compatible the next step

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is to get a copy of macOS typically

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this means using an actual Mac to download the latest version through the

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app store or buying an older version on

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optical media directly from Apple so you

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got your grubby little hands on macOS now you need to create a bootable USB

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using some special software unibeast is a popular one simply click through the

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menus and indicate whether you'll be installing macOS on a newer UEFI

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capable system or on an older computer and your boot media will be ready but

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before you shove it into your PC you'll want to tweak your bio settings this

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typically involves disabling features designed more for windel machines that

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macOS won't play nicely with such as vtd CFG lock secure boot IO serial port

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and and even USB 3.0 if you're rocking something older like a motherboard with

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an Intel 5 series chipset enable xhci

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handoff and you are ready to install macOS from your usb drive but after you've

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done this now you got to make your macOS Target disc bootable as it doesn't

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happen automatically a popular option is to use a utility called multibeast which

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will not only make your machine bootable but will attempt to install additional

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necessary software like drivers note how ever that you'll probably still need to

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find Mac drivers for your graphics card on your own and that's it theoretically

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by this point you're good to go but hold

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on a minute I've heard that Apple is extremely unhappy with people building

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hackintoshes will I get in trouble will Apple sue me will I do hard time in a

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white collar minimum security prison so here's the deal with that

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downloading Ma from the Apple Store is

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free but the fine print stipulates that

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you may only install it on a Bonafide Mac system so that means that

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technically even though you downloaded it for free from Apple it's software

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piracy because you are in breach of the end user license agreement so Apple

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indeed does strongly frown upon people

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building and using Hackintosh systems but with with that said the chances of

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Apple coming after a single user that just wants to use a Hackintosh at home

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are virtually nil and if they do find out somehow the most they are likely to

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do is something like ban your machine from the app store though it should be

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noted they did Sue a company back in

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2009 that was marketing and selling

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hackintoshes which could actually be considered a crime under US federal law

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so the takeaway then is that we're not telling you what you should do we are

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not your legal advisers but if you are going to dabble in hackintoshing do it

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for personal use not to make a quick buck and in any event you are far more

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likely to run into technical rather than legal issues iMessage is infamously

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tough to run on a Hackintosh and you'll probably find other things small or deal

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breaking that aren't exactly on par with the authentic Mac experience but there

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are plenty of resources online to help both newbies and Veterans so so go check

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them out and just hope that Steve Jobs isn't watching you from Beyond the

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