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Mack vs Hack – Difference between Macintosh and Hackintosh

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Apple first announced its computers would switch to Intel-based processors in 2005. After 10 years on the PowerPC architecture, which never took hold in the mainstream personal PC market, Macs were coming over to the more common x86 architecture, and the immediate question was obvious. Can the Mac operating system be tricked into running on non-Apple hardware? The answer was a definite yes, and solutions soon emerged, but in those early days it was very hard to get them working, with a lot of crashes and limited support for hardware. Continue reading Mack vs Hack – Difference between Macintosh and Hackintosh