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Mac OS X has a relatively consistent update schedule: Apple releases a major update for the operating system once a year (e.g. the update from Yosemite 10.10 to El Capitan 10.11), as well as multiple smaller updates throughout the year (e.g. the update from El Capitan 10.11 to 10.11.1). Although major updates can be a bit more complicated, generally, it's very easy to apply the smaller system updates to your Hackintosh.

In the past, applying system updates was a relatively involved process, since updates would often break Hackintosh-specific drivers. Thanks to the new Clover bootloader, however, it's now incredibly easy to apply most (smaller) system updates to your Hackintosh. Simply use the "Update" feature built into the Mac App Store app.

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Once booted, we complete OS X Yosemite setup, as usual in OSX: select region, and lot's of other OSX staff. When finished, open the MultiBeast application.

MultiBeast is an all-in-one post-installation tool designed to enable boot from hard drive, and install support for Audio, Network, and Graphics. In addition it includes System Utilities to repair permissions and a collection of drivers and config files.

First, choose QuickStart with DSDT-Free.

Click through Drivers for Audio, Graphics, and Network options, and  Customize for further options. See some readings here.

My changes modifying the DSDT-Free defaults are these:

Drivers

Audio Realtek ALCxxx: ALC892 (neither ALC898 nor ALC1150, since this motherboard has the 892 codec) Disk Intel GENERIC AHCI SATA TRIM Enabler 10.10.3 TRIM Patch Misc EvOreboot (for shutdown and reboot) FakeSMC: mandatory Plugins: allow access to motherboard hardware monitors HW monitor app I've not set the USB 3.0 Universal, since I read somewhere that 9-series motherboards shouldn't use the Generic USB 3.0 driver, but I'm having USB 3.0 freezes, so I'm not sure in that. Comments are welcome to correct this! Network: RealtekRTL8111 v1.2.3

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By default, the installation guides on this site put the -v (verbose) boot flag into your com.apple.boot.plist that is located in /Exra. The reason I did this is so that you can watch as the system boots and debug. If you are done with tinkering with kexts, and have your system running 100%, you may want your Hackintosh to look more like a real Mac starting up. Simply drag your com.apple.boot.plist to the desktop, open it in TextEdit and remove the -v flag from the Kernel Flags string. Then put the file back into /Extra and reboot.

NOTE: By default, Chameleon uses an updated shiny Apple logo. To make the boot screen look like the above photo, insert the string Legacy Logo=Yes into your com.apple.boot.plist.

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Mac Linux USB Loader is the pinnacle of modern human miracle achievements (okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but it's definitely up there with pre-sliced bread ;) ). It lets you do the (largely previously) impossible task of booting a Linux distribution on your Mac from portable storage. But, I see you - you're the scrawny kid in the back of the class who just has to ask, "Teacher, why?" Well, that's the subject of this Wiki article. An explanation of what exactly we need Mac Linux USB Loader for.

First, I'm unlike most other software publishers in that I wish that I didn't have to write Mac Linux USB Loader. You see, I'm an avid Apple user - I own a large variety of Apple products, and really like Apple as a company (and that's not just because it's a great stock to own). But I'm also a fan of Linux as well, a combination that has worked out nicely because both OS X and Linux trace their origins back to UNIX, and thus the command line tools are similar. But I've always come up short when I try to actually boot Linux on a MacBook. Not necessarily install Linux - that's something entirely different - but just boot it from USB sticks.

These difficulties stem from the differences between how Macs and PCs work (Apple was wise from a business standpoint to differentiate itself from PC manufacturers and Windows, because internally the two systems are quite different). Macs, since Apple's Intel transition in 2006, have booted using a new boot mechanism/specification called UEFI, an acronym for "Universal Extensible Firmware Interface", whereas most PCs still boot using BIOS (or, "Basic Input/Output System") that trace back to before the DOS days. UEFI is radically different from BIOS because it ushers in an entirely new paradigm in how computers should boot. Unlike BIOS, which is largely non-extensible and written in (gulp) assembly language, UEFI is implemented in C (this makes a world of difference to me, because I personally can't understand those move and jmp calls).

Anyway, UEFI has some structural differences compared with BIOS. Think of BIOS as a model-T Ford and UEFI as a Prius. One still works, and you can still drive it around, but you'll be shooting yourself in the foot. On the other hand, you have the nice, sleek, and sexy Prius, built with 21st century technology. I personally prefer the Prius.

BIOS used to provide keyboard, mouse, and other services for the operating system in the days of DOS, and thus represents an antiquated way of booting a computer. The BIOS checks each device it can read in order to see if it is bootable. For a disk drive (like hard drives, USB sticks, solid state drivers, or similar) BIOS attempts to load the first sector (called the "boot sector") from the disk to address 7C00 hexadecimal, and checks for the boot sector signature 0x55 0xAA in the last two bytes of the sector. If the sector cannot be read (due to a missing or blank disk, or due to a hardware failure), or if the sector does not end with the boot signature, the BIOS considers the disk unbootable and proceeds to check the next device. The BIOS proceeds to test each device sequentially until a bootable device is found, at which time the BIOS transfers control to the loaded sector with a jump instruction to its first byte at address 7C00 hexadecimal (1 KiB below the 32 KiB mark).

UEFI is different. The UEFI boots by checking all attached devices, like a BIOS, but everything else from here is different. The UEFI checks each device that has a FAT32 filesystem for a file at specific path on the boot medium. The required filename and path is /EFI/BOOT/BOOT[architecture].EFI (/ being the root, or top level, folder on the drive). So, for a 64-bit processor, the boot file would be expected to be found at /EFI/BOOT/BOOTx64.EFI. But that's not all. Boot loaders can be stored in different places in a partition on the boot medium called the EFI System Partition (ESP). The UEFI searches for every valid .EFI file that it finds at a valid path and then typically displays a menu where the user can choose which to boot.

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BEST-REVIEWED PC GAMES OF ALL TIME

1 Half-Life 2 (2004) 2 Grand Theft Auto V (2015) 3 The Orange Box (2007) 4 Half-Life (1998) 5 BioShock (2007) 6 Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000) 7 Portal 2 (2011) 8 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011) 9 Mass Effect 2 (2010) 10 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2003) 11 Civilization II (1996) 12 Quake (1996) 13 BioShock Infinite (2013) 14 The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006) 15 Grim Fandango (1998) 16 Diablo (1996) 17 Sid Meier's Civilization IV (2005) 18 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015) 19 Company of Heroes (2006) 20 Unreal Tournament 2004 (2004) 21 Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty 22 Minecraft (2009) 23 Homeworld (1999) 24 Grand Theft Auto III (2002) 25 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003)

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Many old PC games seem to work fine on Windows 10, but games using Microsoft’s failed Games for Windows LIVE (GFWL) platform are an exception. They’ll give you an error on Windows 10. You can remove GFWL from many games entirely, though, or just troubleshoot it and make it work properly.

Many games have abandoned GFWL, allowing you to redeem a non-GFWL copy or install a patch that removes GFWL. But not all of them have. For example, Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City still use GFWL, as does Bethesda’s Fallout 3. These games are regularly promoted on Steam sales, so gamers will be stumbling onto GFWL for years to come.

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Installation Troubleshooting Tips 1. Create your OS X UniBeast USB or iBoot disc drive as per Guides 2. Once you have created your bootable installer. You are ready to install your OS X version, Please follow the install procedures to the letter. 3. Select your first boot priority using F12 for Gigabyte motherboards, Or the hotkey for your manufacturers motherboard. 4. If you are having trouble reaching the installer. I suggest using the integrated graphics and add your discrete graphics card later. Use -x (safe mode) or -v (verbose mode Troubleshooting: Issuing Boot Flags) this should give you some information where the installation is stalling. This enables others to help you. 5. Once OS X says the installation is complete. It Automatically restarts, this is where you select your USB drive for the last time. Once at the Chimera Boot Screen select your new installation, if you had to use boot flags for the installer then you need to use them again. I always find safe mode easier to get to the registration of OS X.

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Since the early days of hackintoshing there has been a growing number of software titles we can use when building our rigs; software that helps us to install, tune and benchmark our systems, as well as carrying out housekeeping tasks like taking a backup, managing kexts & caches, and all manner of other little jobs. Here is a list of the most common software packages, together with download links, screenshots and a short description for each. I consider this collection to be my 'Hackintosh Toolbox' which I use to build and maintain my systems. Note I have not included Chimera, Multibeast or Unibeast as you should have already learned about these tools, and they are very well documented in the forum guides. Nearly all programs are free, or have free and commercial versions available. The two exceptions are TechTool Pro by Micromat and Carbon Copy Cloner by Bombich Software; both of these programs are commercial, although Carbon Copy Cloner has a free 30 day trial.

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list of Best Hackintosh Laptops 2016 : 1. Lenovo Y50-70 2. Dell Inspiron 15 7559 3. Lenovo Z50-70 4. HP ProBook 450 G3 5. Acer Aspire E5-571P 6. Asus Zenbook UX305FA 7. Lenovo G50-70 8. HP Probook 450 G1 9. Lenovo Ideapad u430 10. Dell XPS 15 9530

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For those who don’t know, a Hackintosh laptop is basically a laptop that is completely non-Apple, however, is hacked in a certain way that you can actually run Apple’s Mac OS on it. Now you need to keep some things in mind, Apple’s own operating system works in conjunction with the hardware that goes inside the Macbooks, and while it may be very, very simple to think that the same hardware can easily be found inside laptops that are not made by Apple, there are obvious restrictions that are put into Macbooks as well. What this means is that even if a Macbook and a laptop both have similar specs, it wouldn’t be an easy job to make the laptop run the OS that is used by the Macbook. In comes the Hackintosh, this perhaps is the only way to use Apple’s OS on a laptop, and in case you are wondering why people don’t just go for the Macbook right away, then think about the price difference for a second. For the cost of a fully high end Macbook, you can get 2 laptops with similar specs, but somewhat lower build quality, and while everyone is aware of the revered build quality of the Macbook, some just don’t feel comfortable enough to pay that much of a premium. In simpler words, if you want to enjoy the fluidity of the Mac OS, but don’t want to spend the enormous amount of money on it, Hackintosh is the way to go.

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What is hackintosh?

Even though running Mac OS X on a generic PC is not supported by Apple, it is possible to accomplish given the right hardware and determination by users. Any system that is made to run the Apple operating system is referred to as Hackintosh. This term comes from the fact that the software needs to be hacked in order to properly run on the hardware. Of course some of the hardware needs to be tweaked in a few cases as well.

The picture below is of a Desktop Computer installed with Hackintosh OSX.

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