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Hackintosh
A Hackintosh is a machine dedicated to running the Mac operating system but it is strictly non-Apple hardware. Apple is notoriously restrictive with the official hardware that can run its operating systems so, of course, tenacious techies have found ways to work around it. There are whole communities of devotees…
Building a hackintosh — that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware — used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now your options are vast and the installation process is fairly simple. With that in mind, this is our complete guide to building…
![The Complete Guide To Building A Hackintosh [OS X 10.8.4]](https://imgix.lifehacker.com.au/content/uploads/sites/4/2016/11/01/zwc2k2r1xdzrwvhepidd.jpg?ar=16%3A9&auto=format&fit=crop&q=65&w=800)
You didn’t want to settle for Apple’s underpowered hardware, so you built yourself a hackintosh. A few years later it’s feeling slow and you want to upgrade. Because you created the machine yourself, you don’t need to shell out tons of cash for a new one. You can upgrade for…
![The Complete Guide To Building A Hackintosh [OS X 10.8.1]](https://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2011/09/0800-hackintosh-guide-title.jpg)
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