Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : 2twisty
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Apr 20 2022 10:00:38

  Re: Re: Hackintosh
  By: 2twisty to Nightfox on Wed Apr 20 2022 08:36 am

 2t> Apple could ADD additional instruction sets to the base ARM design, and
 2t> then writing their source code to use those insructions. A regular ARM
 2t> chip would have no idea how to use it. 

Yeah, I wondered about that.  Apple's customizations that go into their M1 may make it a bit different from a regular ARM processor.

 2t> M1 MacOS will never run on a "garden variety" ARM chip. Apple learned
 2t> their lesson with all the Hackintoshes. 

The kind of control Apple wants on their products seems weird to me at times. I remember Apple allowing Mac clones in the 90s (and there were some Mac clones made by Motorola and Power Computing etc.), but they stopped that when Steve Jobs came back.  And when they started using Intel processors, one of their advertised advantages was that you could easily run Windows alongside Mac OS so you could use apps that were only available for Windows if you wanted to.

I've thought it would be interesting if Apple opened up their Mac OS X so that it could officially be installed on any PC, but with their mindset, I don't see them doing that.

Nightfox
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