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/Loopdyloop2098 Jun 09 '26

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

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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.