Hackintosh in the future

[scottkendall]

Companies like Qualcomm are hiring away Apple's chip engineers that know how to make an M1 because they've already done it for Apple.

Qualcomm takes on Apple Silicon with next-gen PC chips designed by former Apple engineers - 9to5Mac

Qualcomm is ramping up its efforts to compete with Apple’s new M-series chips for the Mac. The chip maker today...

9to5mac.com

Apple is really good about compartmentalization so not one or two or three engineers are holding the bag.. so can they reproduce the M1 probably not. Something close? Maybe.

 

[trs96]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-williams-iii-27895aa/

Look at Gerard's resume on Linkedin. He didn't just fetch the coffee and donuts for the other engineers. He was at Apple in 2010 when they made the transition to A series chips in iPhones. Apple wouldn't bother to file the lawsuit if they had no worries involved with his leaving Apple to start his own company which was later bought by Qualcomm. I doubt that Qualcomm will be able to replicate the current M1 but they can certainly make something that would be macOS compatible so that hackintoshers might have another option to run macOS after Intel support gets dropped.

Also look at the history of Fairchild Semiconductor:

The Deep Intel, AMD & Nvidia Connection That You Never Knew Existed

Here are the four facts that everyone should know but only a few do in the tech community about Nvidia, AMD and Intel.

wccftech.com

 

[wstrohm]

Big Sur and Monterey are nice and helped with the transition to M1, but they feel less Appleish compared to Mojave or Tiger.

My 2.7 Ghz dual-CPU PPC G5 (Early 2005, liquid-cooled) still runs Mac OS Tiger 10.4.11, the last Mac OS that will play Classic apps. But I only use it to play "Obsidian." Otherwise it's pretty much a foot rest.

 

[craighazan]

My 2.7 Ghz dual-CPU PPC G5 (Early 2005, liquid-cooled) still runs Mac OS Tiger 10.4.11, the last Mac OS that will play Classic apps. But I only use it to play "Obsidian." Otherwise it's pretty much a foot rest.

You have a working liquid cooled PPC G5?.

 

[wstrohm]

You have a working liquid cooled PPC G5?.

Yep. (Had to do a little work on it, though, as you can see in my article.)

 

[craighazan]

Yep. (Had to do a little work on it, though, as you can see in my article.)

That’s a fine article sir, detailed and visually rich, good stuff.

 

[wstrohm]

That’s a fine article sir, detailed and visually rich, good stuff.

Thanks, I appreciate that. The repair held until at least 2012, when one CPU just quit working. No leaks, just a component failure... no clue why. I paid the Apple store about $1K for an entire new CPU assembly, installed by them. They gave me a lot of static for not buying a new Mac instead, but I was a dyed-in-the-wool PPC aficionado at the time. No regrets.

 

[scottkendall]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerard-williams-iii-27895aa/

Look at Gerard's resume on Linkedin. He didn't just fetch the coffee and donuts for the other engineers. He was at Apple in 2010 when they made the transition to A series chips in iPhones. Apple wouldn't bother to file the lawsuit if they had no worries involved with his leaving Apple to start his own company which was later bought by Qualcomm. I doubt that Qualcomm will be able to replicate the current M1 but they can certainly make something that would be macOS compatible so that hackintoshers might have another option to run macOS after Intel support gets dropped.

You might be impressed by his Resume but I am not. I would hope anyone in a field as long as him would have worked in as many segments as him!

That said Apple files lawsuits for lots of reasons, that does not mean they are worried or that he holds all the information in the bag. He left to create a company that creates a product that is in all likely hood a violation of IP rights and a contract he signed with apple in addition he began to poach other employees also like a a violation of the non-complete contract they all signed. Stealing trade secrets is a big deal.

MacOS compatibility is only partly about the CPU if no one takes the time to create drivers for the hardware that is not native Mac hardware then chances are you will be running such a crippled system why bother. If time was no object someone could more then likely get MacOS to run on a R-PI but why bother when the system will be seriously crippled. The reason why we have so much success with Hackintosh right now is that 95% of the hardware we use is the same hardware chips that are in the Mac Systems.

Also look at the history of Fairchild Semiconductor:

The Deep Intel, AMD & Nvidia Connection That You Never Knew Existed

Here are the four facts that everyone should know but only a few do in the tech community about Nvidia, AMD and Intel.

wccftech.com

Yes this is why there was so much tension between AMD and intel for so many years!

 

[antieatingactivist]

Thanks, I appreciate that. The repair held until at least 2012, when one CPU just quit working. No leaks, just a component failure... no clue why. I paid the Apple store about $1K for an entire new CPU assembly, installed by them. They gave me a lot of static for not buying a new Mac instead, but I was a dyed-in-the-wool PPC aficionado at the time. No regrets.

This brought back memories of my Air cooled G5 that had a processor failure. I took the machine to an indie Apple shop in Philadelphia (no apple store at the time). They said, its either the logic board or the CPU, and that I should buy a new machine. Woof. I bought an identical cpu unit off of eBay, popped it in, crossed my fingers, and it lived on for another year before I sold it.

 

[c-o-pr]

Yep. (Had to do a little work on it, though, as you can see in my article.)

It was your very article, in its day, which while raising my consciousness that Delphi (a la GM, the auto air-conditioner and parts co) did that cooler design also fixed my view that liquid cooling should never-ever be a part of any computer I keep.
Thanks for the memories!