From the very dawn of the personal computing era, the PC and Apple platforms have gone very different ways. IBM compatibles surged in popularity, while Apple was able to more closely guard the ...

Commentary: Four years ago, I built a PC, then tricked it to run Mac software. Soon, Apple will stop it from working. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large / News Ian Sherr (he/him/his) ...

Is hacking a netbook to run Mac OS X really worth the trouble? Two tech journalists today expressed grief with their Hackbooks, so I felt like chiming in with my thoughts about my somewhat ...

Hackintosh users are successfully running macOS 26 Tahoe on their devices, in a battle that's taking place as Intel Mac support enters its final year. With it being the last generation of macOS to ...

Apple has phased out support for decade-old drivers in macOS, which is making life harder for the Hackintosh community. Has the hobby run its course with the introduction of Apple Silicon Macs? Apple ...

Apple famously transitioned away from PowerPC processors in favor of Intel's back in 2006. The move was provoked out of the need to stay competitive in desktop performance and IBM's inability to ...

September 3, 2009 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Two years ago, I detailed how to build a Hackintosh for under $800—then covered how to do the same with less ...

Never. You can never hackintosh a laptop and have it work just as well as a real Mac. If there's anything that Apple does very well, it's make some slick portable hardware. No other PC laptop is going ...

The only way to get Apple's MacOS operating system is to buy one of Apple's own Macs. That's pretty much the way it's always been. Or at least, that's the only official way. The computer pictured ...