Recent content by DASamuels

We all have our opinions…I think that Apple will continue to support x86 for 5-7 years after the last Intel Mac ships next year. Intel Macs have a very long useful life, which was not true of power PC Macs, or any computers, 15 years ago. I believe that today’s new Macs will get OS updates for 5...

Oh, and I guess the PC architecture that we build our Hackintoshes on is now an old design. These SoC’s seem much more efficient. I like the modular systems we have as a hobby, but for real workloads, these SoC’s systems will be awesome. I already use an iPad Pro for most of my professional...

Lots of possibilities - more performance for less/same cost, more portability. I think Windows support will come through virtualization. I think the Mac user base will grow with this new level of performance and availability of iOS apps for dedicated uses like shopping and social media. I think...

IMHO I think a Sandy Bridge system would run fine as long as you have a system definition that is recent enough and a graphics card that supports METAL (consider getting an AMD card to avoid updating NVIDIA’s drivers at every update). I saw a video on line of a guy running Mojave with an...

I installed the card and it works. My Hackintosh and my MacBook Pro get the same throughput speed on USB3.0 devices. Seems fairly stable. But, system information does not report any USB devices or PCIe devices that reference the new card. I used the internal USB 3.0 port to power the ports on...

I have a similar problem with a StarTech card that uses the ASM1142. It works on Sierra but not on High Sierra. I can connect to USB drives but there is no info in "About This Mac". Did you have any success making yours work? Similar cards are on the buyer's guide, so surely others have this issue?

This card looks good - ASM1142 chipset, 2 USB type A, 1 USB type C and headers for 2 internal ports. It is powered by a SATA power cable. I am running High Sierra 10.13.5. Has anyone had success with this card on 10.13.5? Does the ASM1142 chipset always work or are there versions/configurations...

I am keeping my Sandy Bridge system alive for at least another couple of years. Mojave is not much of an enhancement (desktop stacks? Whatever...) so why buy a new system? I’m running High Sierra on the same hardware I bought in Feb 2012, except for the SSD’s, a recycled Apple Bluetooth module...

Also, the 3TB HDD is working. I had to reformat and set it up for time machine, but it is working fine. Lost all of my old backups but that is not such a big deal on this machine.

Thanks. This fix worked well. I booted up, created an Admin user with administrator privileges, shut down the system, unplugged all the drives except the boot drive, rebooted and logged in as Admin. This allowed me to download files and work without the raid set crashing my system. I installed...

This is probably causing another issue with my build. I use a Raid 0 drive (two Crucial MX-series 500GB SSD's) as my home directory. When I try to access the drive, like launching an app from Home/Downloads or copying a file from /Home/Downloads to /SystemDrive/Applications, Finder hangs and...

I have a similar problem. Upon updating to High Sierra, my 3TB time machine hard drive will not mount. I can see the drive in Disk Utility and in Terminal, but it will not mount. I did not have this drive plugged in when I updated the system. Also I am using the new Apple File System on my...

Public Beta 2 is out. I'm installing on a MacBook Pro this morning.

My updates have always been smooth, even though I use the old school Award BIOS. I have all clover boot loader stuff on a small SSD, and my OS's on separate SSD's. A few months ago I bought a low cost USB audio dongle so that I would no longer need to worry about audio driver updates. When I...

Thanks for the heads up!!