During the day, I'd move between my MacBook Air and Hackintosh for work, using all the specialized Mac software I've come to rely on to track my to-do lists, manage my calendars and find clever GIFs to use in idle banter.Īt night, I switched the Hackintosh over to Microsoft's Windows, which powers more than 73% of the world's computers. (Apple declined to comment for this article.) But the result was that I had a desktop Mac computer on my terms. It's not something Apple supports, and it may be a violation of the MacOS software licensing terms. I'd turned my DIY computer into a Hackintosh.
The project took about $800, many nights of squinting at computer code, and a couple of frustrated bangs on my keyboard, but eventually I'd done it.Īpple's $699 M1-powered Mac Mini is a low-cost machine with surprisingly speedy chips.
