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- Radeon RX Vega
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This is when those mighty talented members of the Hackintosh community will figure out what it will take to turn commodity ARM motherboards in ARMintosh (or ARMacintosh) systems - the preponderance or proprietary Apple chips will make this more challenging, to find functional equivalents on the PC side, but I am confident that it can and will be done.
I wish you're right, but if that’s how you say it, then why can’t we run iOS on Android ARM?
I'm afraid we're losing this battle. So, let's enjoy another 2-4 years with Hackintosh. After that, back to shitty Windows or buy a real Mac.
I think that this is the fascinating question that we in the community should start examining closely. When we are able to get our hands on this hardware (and the OS, which admittedly is already in development preview) will we be able to figure out (i) how it operates and how it communicates with software, and (ii) once ARM architecture processors are released at retail, will we be able to tweak the OS and its related extensions/drivers/etc. to continue to build our own "PC hardware" that will operate on OSXI and beyond?
LaraML is right: we've tried to get iOS to operate on non Apple-ARM architectures and we haven't been able to get the OS to run as seamlessly, or natively, as we have with macOS and intel hardware. Why? Generally speaking, it is because the chips aren't just some "off the shelf" ARM processor as, say, our intel 9700s are. Well, what can we do to remedy that? What can we do to the software, the only thing we can likely adapt (as I'm sure we won't be able to change the architecture of an as-yet-unreleased retail ARM processor to match an Apple ARM) to make it work with an off the shelf ARM processor? Is it even possible?
All of these pending possibilities are unfortunately too remote to even speculate right now, which is what makes me a little anxious. I can't even begin to speculate because it is all so dang early in the process--that said, the thought of these communities and the "fun" of tweaking this OS to run on our hardware all fading away is a bit depressing. I remember back in the early 00s when I had my old Power Mac 5400 -- I seriously considered buying one of those retail G3 chips (I can't remember the name of the manufacturer, but believe it or not you could buy non-apple G3 processors that would go into the processor slot of those old PPC motherboards) in order to get OSX (Cheetah! Version 1!) to run on it. My oh my how the times have changed.
Anyway, while I don't think we should resign ourselves to the notion that these community will eventually fade out, we should try to stay motivated, and inspired, to adapt to this new architecture and figure out a way to continue to use it to our advantage in this community.
Signed,
An old man who all of the sudden got nostalgic about macOS on PCs