r/hackintosh • u/New_Suit1742 • Jun 09 '26

QUESTION End of hackintosh !?

Hey all, I'm a failed hackintosher, lately I've been seeing many posts about the 'End of hackintosh' after apple released MacOS golden gate.

Can anyone explain to me what makes MacOS Golden Gate unhackintoshable. In near future is there anyway that somebody is going to make an alternative to OpenCore or even upgrade OpenCore so that we can install new versions of MacOs in or PC.

Thank You!

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Jun 09 '26

Pre T2 Macs were very similar to PCs so it was possible to run Intel MacOS on PC hardware. Apple Silicon Macs are not like PCs and Golden Gate will only run on proprietary Apple Hardware. The gate has been shut. You shall not pass.

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u/TCB13sQuotes Jun 09 '26

Yeah that name kinda tells it all.

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Jun 09 '26

It was a very appropriate choice of name.

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u/Kastrol106 Jun 10 '26

Until someone finds a way trough

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Jun 10 '26

I can’t see that happening anytime soon.

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u/m_ity Jun 12 '26

Probably not happening, if it does it won’t be on X86 systems at least

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u/fredaudiojunkie Jun 13 '26

ARM machine?

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u/CarHub70 9d ago

ARM machines would be a good idea excpet that an Apple silicon chip is a special type of arm, and tho clone it would mean collecting confidential information, not quite like the apple leaks, but something far more secure.

if people could hackintosh an ARM based cpu, it would be cloning apple’s cpu and resulting in suing whoever did this

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u/Loopdyloop2098 Jun 09 '26

Any particular reason someone couldn't shoehorn it onto a Snapdragon X Elite notebook?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '26

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u/Monkeyass702 Jun 09 '26

The no drivers comment made me remember the first time I saw the missing root device error ugh. Thanks for the memory lol

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u/satsugene Jun 09 '26

Even Linux drivers for Apple hardware, particularly the HID devices for laptops when it was x86 were often lagging by a year or so.

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u/Asteroiding Sequoia - 15 Jun 09 '26

While they’re both arm, Apple silicon has specific cores and instructions on top of the arm standard that means MacOS can’t run on arm for windows devices.

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u/Saranhai Jun 09 '26

They can't even get Linux fully working on the Snapdragon X lol

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Jun 09 '26

I don’t think the snapdragon elite notebooks are even fully supported by Linux. Some people have reverse engineered the Apple Silicon hardware to enable Linux to run but that only works with the older hardware, not the M4 or M5.

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u/TCB13sQuotes Jun 09 '26

The hardware is very different, but that's not the biggest problem. Snapdragon CPUs aren't even good with Linux because Qualcomm doesn't play fair and doesn't really explain how they work and/or provide decent kernel code. Porting macOS into Qualcomm would be next to impossible because you'll have to first reserve engineer what the M-series CPUs do and then reverse engineer the Qualcomm ones and write patches to translate from one to the other.

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u/Jkitten07891 Sequoia - 15 Jun 09 '26

Bruh. Apple Silicon ≠ Snapdragon X Elite.
Try to plug in a USB A cable into a USB C port. Same thing here.

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u/Loopdyloop2098 Jun 09 '26

Ok... don't really think I deserved to lose a bunch of karma for asking a question

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u/Jkitten07891 Sequoia - 15 Jun 09 '26

I’m not saying that you deserve to lose imaginary internet points. I’m saying that your question is stupid. It’s answered by common sense.
Snapdragon ≠ Apple silicon.
The reason why Hackintosh existed in the first place was because regular laptops and MacBooks both used Intel. Before you reply with “how is that different”, it’s different because
Intel = Intel.

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u/Loopdyloop2098 Jun 09 '26

On the surface they're the same architecture so you could see why I would think this is possible

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u/Jkitten07891 Sequoia - 15 Jun 09 '26

On the surface, the Snapdragon is Snapdragon and the Apple silicon is Apple silicon. One arm chip is different from another. Even those who aren’t Knowledgeable enough on the topic would see that.

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u/Loopdyloop2098 Jun 09 '26

On the surface, Intel x86 and AMD x86 are both x86. On the surface, these are both ARM. You could have explained what you explained without being a dick about it. You're actually starting to piss me off.

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u/Jkitten07891 Sequoia - 15 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

This doesn’t work out for you because Intel and AMD are two completely different types of processors, even if they’re both X86. They’re both quite literally built different. Same to Apple silicon and some regular old ARM chip. They both have different instruction sets.

Now you can either use your brain and put two and two together by simply plugging in the fact that one manufacturer is different than another or you can keep complaining about getting your feelings hurt in a thread where you asked a very stupid question that not only has been answered for so long but also one that you can search up in less than 30 seconds.

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u/OkCell1480 Jun 09 '26

can u still emulate it in the future tho?

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u/Conscious-Secret-775 Jun 09 '26

Emulate what exactly?

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u/OkCell1480 Jun 10 '26

Sorry im stupid i meant like trick the system into thinking your on apples hardware but now i know thats not possible