Does New Apple Chips = Hackintosh End?

[MacMoJo]

Can anyone give insight what it all means to the Hackintosh hobby with New Apple designated proprietary CPUs coming soon and Apple's abandoning of Intel's publicly sold CPUs and how it all affects the Hackintosh hobbyist no longer being able to use Intel CPUs as they obviously will no longer be compatible with Intel motherboards as Apple will undoubtedly have their own special designed motherboards to specifically seat their Apple CPUs which only makes sense to disrupt and stop the hackintosh hobby.

anyone have knowledge of all this would love to hear what the end game is.

Its time for the Jedi to end and its time for Hackintosh to end too? Uh Oh.

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

Apple are not doing all of this just because of the hackintosh scene. They want control of as much hardware as possible by bringing it in-house. The lack of progress on Intel chips in recent years has no doubt accelerated that.

 

[trs96]

The new macOS 11.0 has support for Universal Binary apps. They will work fine on Intel systems as well as "Apple Silicon" systems later this year and in 2021. It's like the situation with the Intel transition back in 2006. For now and next year and the year after that, you've nothing to worry about. Keep your hack updated and enjoy using your 9700K with macOS for a minimum of 3 years to come. Possibly even longer.

 

[MacMoJo]

Apple are not doing all of this just because of the hackintosh scene. They want control of as much hardware as possible by bringing it in-house. The lack of progress on Intel chips in recent years has no doubt accelerated that.

Thanks for your reply with insight and knowledge.

 

[sriHacPro]

My Hac is on Catalina. Probably can upgrade to Big Sur next year, with some tweaks. It can work for the next 3 years. New hackintosh builders can build a new one based on last intel Mac in 2022. That can run another 5 years. These are the possible scenarios. Building a ARM hackintosh in future is unknown territory. We will only know next year.

 

[remington]

Apple are not doing all of this just because of the hackintosh scene. They want control of as much hardware as possible by bringing it in-house. The lack of progress on Intel chips in recent years has no doubt accelerated that.

It's true that Intel made no significant progress with their cpu but AMD has since there is AMD code in macOS... It's possible that Apple will use AMD cpu in their high end desktops or server platforms once their contract with Intel expires.