Hmm. You should have checked over on tonymacx86 for your motherboard before you bought it (they also have a buyer's guide). Wouldn't hurt to do a quick search over there - see if there's any issues with your sysbrd....and return it if it looks like it'll be a major PITA.I just build a budget Kaby Lake Pentium gaming PC, when apple's prices stay as crap as they are (1299$ = 1499€ WTF???) and they don't make a new, more powerful mac mini I can't wait to hackintosh the hell out of it. I really need to get my mind more into this subject. I hope my motherboard will be compatible
Yeah - never had the time to play with it myself. Have you ? Wondering what the migration , inter-operability and performance characteristics are? Also, a whole bunch of thrid-party disk tools will probably need updates...
Actually, not only is Apple File System optional and NOT required, but several people have already reported success running 10.13 on unsupported Macs using the same post-install methods that worked in 10.12.Early indication for 10.13 does not bode well for unsupported Macs… apparently, even if you install to a second partition, the installer necessarily updates EFI on the Mac in order to boot APFS. Surely no firmware update for "unsupported" Macs, I'd think, ergo no APFS booting… hopefully 10.13 doesn't REQUIRE APFS on the boot partition!
https://twitter.com/jnadeau/status/871838025826709505
Sounds promising.Actually, not only is Apple File System optional and NOT required, but several people have already reported success running 10.13 on unsupported Macs using the same post-install methods that worked in 10.12.
Hmm. You should have checked over on tonymacx86 for your motherboard before you bought it (they also have a buyer's guide). Wouldn't hurt to do a quick search over there - see if there's any issues with your sysbrd....and return it if it looks like it'll be a major PITA.![]()
I do it every year for my hackintoshNot really. Sierra .5 is working just fine for me and "High" Sierra, feature-wise, feels more like a point update.
However defaulting to APFS is big. Anyone willing to share their experience with the APFS preview?
It will definitely be posibleSounds promising.
The problem is, Kaby Lake wasn't supported officially by apple until.. well now. So in the buyers guide where mostly Sky Lake based systems. And it's only since Kaby Lake, that the Pentiums are finally great again so I wasn't sure. I have an Asus Prime B25 Plus, I've read on tonymacx86 that some people installed Mac OS on that, so it sounds promising
Excellent news about APFS being optional. I see that Steve Troughton-Smith actually had to disable the APFS migration himself (potentially due to Fusion drive problems).
https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/872071617119211520
Good to hear. Still more than a bit miffed that Apple decided to stiff the 2009 MacBook Pro 5,5 owners when it is pretty much functionally the same as the 10.13-still-supported 2009 MacBook.![]()
According to @jnadeau (who @stoughtonsmith RT'd), the 10.13 installer does a EFI firmware update to allow booting from APFS. Given that Apple surely wouldn't be including any firmware updates for our unsupported legacy hardware, we'd not be able to EFI boot into APFS, right? If, for some reason, Apple ever FORCES APFS for the boot volume, we'd be in a bit of a bind. (Though I'd imagine EFI projects like Clover might be of help…)I don't think the APFS would cause us any problems.
According to @jnadeau (who @stoughtonsmith RT'd), the 10.13 installer does a EFI firmware update to allow booting from APFS. Given that Apple surely wouldn't be including any firmware updates for our unsupported legacy hardware, we'd not be able to EFI boot into APFS, right? If, for some reason, Apple ever FORCES APFS for the boot volume, we'd be in a bit of a bind. (Though I'd imagine EFI projects like Clover might be of help…)
I was just about to upgrade my 09' mini from el cap, but I'll wait until you can finalize a smooth transition into High Sierra (fingers crossed)I found a snag with 10.13 already... The app you download from the App Store is just a small 5MB application that then downloads the entirety of the OS... Hopefully I can figure out a way to get this to work on unsupported machines.
I do it every year for my hackintosh
I call it....fun
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It will definitely be posible
You have to have the most recent installer and patcher (the ones he provided links to)... It's in dosdude1's Q&A on the patcher sitehmmm.... am i forgetting to do something here. I made an USB installer for macOS Sierra (multiple times) and it keeps hanging. I boot in verbose and it seems to load everything but when it gets back to the apple screen to get ready to load the "desktop" it just hangs there and the progress bar doesn't move at all.
You have to have the most recent installer and patcher (the ones he provided links to)... It's in dosdude1's Q&A on the patcher site
Should work then... I had the same problem because I got my patcher backups confused with the new one... any ideas @dosdude1?If the newest ones are linked on page one that’s what I’m using. I used that patch to make the usb installer
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...cpus-200-series-motherboards-in-macos.219877/Is there already a "how to" for Kaby Lake System for hackintosh? I might me in the wrong threat here, but I would really love to try it out with my motherboard...