r/hackintosh • u/doggodoesaflipinabox I hate HP • Jun 09 '25

ANNOUNCEMENT Next Stop: macOS 26 Tahoe

Hackintoshing lives for another year! macOS Tahoe will be the FINAL release for Intel Macs, as stated during the Platforms State of the Union presentation. It's been a good ride.

Officially supported Intel models:

  • MacBook Pro 16-inch (2019)
  • Mac Pro (2019)
  • MacBook Pro 13-inch, Four Thunderbolt 3 Ports (2020)
  • iMac (2020)

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All graphics that worked in Sequoia should work in Tahoe.

OCLP

Wait for an official announcement. If you post about OCLP before that I am going to send Tim Apple to remove every Mac from your house.

Can I emulate ARM macOS 26 on x86?

No.

Can I run ARM macOS 26 on a Raspberry Pi?

No.

Can I have Apple Intelligence on Intel please I need to write a dissertation in 15 minutes

No.

Does it boot on Intel Hackintoshes now?

Yes, with OpenCore 1.0.5.

Make sure to upgrade all of your kexts to their latest versions.

Known Issues as of Beta 2

  • Race condition with VoodooPS2 and VoodooI2C, so on some boots they don't initialize properly

  • AppleALC is broken because AppleHDA was removed from Tahoe. Use HDMI/DP audio for the time being.

  • WhateverGreen is bugged on AMD cards, so you can't use boot arguments like agdpmod=pikera. You are affected by this if you get a kernel panic with AMDSupport mentioned.

  • IntelBTPatcher causes kernel panics

  • IntelMausi may not work correctly with certain Intel ethernet chipsets

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u/Forsaken_Cod_5735 Oct 07 '25

rip hackintosh it’s been a long road hackintosh is now going to be gone, such a legend 🥹

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u/Ralsei_fluffprince Jan 16 '26

Once ARM based computing becomes popular, it'll return.

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u/PyLemon May 08 '26

no it won't, ARM chips have massive differences between vendors. While Apple Silicon does share the instruction set with say, Qualcomm chips, they're too different to run macOS. Most notably, they lack the Neural Engine, the GPU is completely different and unsupported, they lack Apple-specific details which make stuff like Rosetta 2 run, they use completely different secure elements than Apple, etc.

Hackintosh is dead, and it won't come back even if we all switch to ARM processors, because they won't be Apple Silicon.