The Last Hackintosh? 

I found your channel while searching for Hackintosh for my R5 1600 four years ago. I'm still subscribed because of quality content.

If anyone is curious, TRS stands for "tip, ring, sleeve" referring to the 3 conductors on a headphone jack. If it has an in-line mic, it will have a 4th connector which is a 2nd "ring" and it's called "TRRS"

The new OpenCore (0.7.6) is said to bring support for the 12th gen CPUs, even the efficiency cores. So probably one last iteration of support over there.

I started watching 4 years ago when I was obsessed with the idea of building a hackintosh. You gained a lifelong viewer through the quality and comedy in your videos!

That fold yourself computer case is a super cool concept! It's a shame it's so flimsy and overpriced.

That case is such a "great idea, awful execution" scenario

Wow literally the only person on RU-vid that will give an honest review about Apple products nobody talks about any of the shortcomings Apple has and they're very many of them.

I converted my Hackintosh to Win10 a couple of years ago. I've thought about making another one but Apple silicon is too compelling and Hackintoshing is too complex.

I love Teenage Engineering’s synths. They’re robust and beautiful and chock-full of great features. Shame the design arm seems to cut corners like this :(

It makes sense that these were going to start going away. Just for ease of use, size, pretty much everything, the mac mini is crazy awesome right now.

Wow. This is the end of an era. Awesome content man. Love love love it.

this is a great video. I really love how objective you are with your vids. I am going to binge watch the channel.

I just put an external SSD next to the Mac mini. Is this strange? Quinn makes it sound like you really need to upgrade the internal storage, but so far it's working fine for me.

You can enable trim with a terminal command

I subscribed bc I know that hackintosh struggle... 2-3 days is not a joke.. and you end up with something that barely boots! Love it!

Yep, i followed you originally because of the hackintosh content YEARS ago. Keep up the great work!

Quinn's an excellent presenter. He's like a cool college professor that you look forward to listening to. Which feels odd to say because I think I'm older than him lol

Apple's pricing on memory and storage is ridiculous. And remember neither of those are upgradeable anymore in the M1. I built myself a hackintosh "the easy way": with a VM and pass through VGA and a discrete USB card. Apples to apples (core count and frequency, memory, GPU etc) it's an iMac Pro for one third the price. It still has a few unfixable issues though, like minor issues with sound (even with a USB speaker), keyboard and mouse never worked in bootloader unless plugged in and so on.

The best outro (ending) of any video I have recently watched on any channel. You are very comfortable and awesome in front of the camera. It is not irritating or embarrassing but just right and lovely.

That was a really great intro Snazzy, good job 👍

I wanted this case so much when it was announced! I currently use a fractal R4 case and this would of looked so cool on my desk instead of hid underneath it 🙁

I got a reasonably specced PC from my internship this summer and I spent HOURS trying to hackintosh it. I couldn’t get it. You’re right, it’s a nightmare. Also, you’re my favorite RU-vidr. Quality content as always.

Great choice for music, happy Christmas to you to dude

Your hackintosh vids are what lured me to your channel

I have to say, using that SSD without TRIM will be an absolute disaster.

I built a “Nuc Mini” whenever that video came out and I’ve been enjoying that on MacOS since, IMO, the first time set up was a pain, but since, I’ve had minimal issues

Congratulations on 1 million 🚀🚀

Congrats on 1 million!!!

I think I've built my last one too. It boggles my mind a bit since I've been doing it since about 2012, and honestly I'm still not sure I can dedicate myself to Apple that hardcore. I may switch back to linux since most of what I do is via terminal and browser these days. We'll see, my current hardware is not going anywhere for a couple more years, I guess we'll see how badass the M2s might be by then. :)

You should have gone for more RAM instead of a 1TB SSD, you can always add storage later. I bought my mac mini in early 2021 with 16GB and man... haven't looked back since.

congats on 1 Million bro !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excellent video! So well presented and technically Snazzy! cheers from Downunder..

id rather have 16gb ram than upgrade storage. can always plug in external if you want more, cant plug in external ram

Teenage, my local homeboys. The design is almost Portal-esque - as in Aperture Science - with that orange

This has to be one of the most enjoyable and, dare I say entertainingly educational bit of content I've seen in tech this year... I subscribed, totally looking forwards to what this fellow has for us next.

Fantastic video, thanks man! ♥️

just shove a m1 mac mini in that case and boom hackintosh

If people managed AMD Hackintoshes, it seems like someone will figure this out

The level of dedication you go trough, putting a snow filter layer into the windscreen :p Another great video like we get used to!

This actually brings me tears, I found this channel 4yrs ago from Quinn's Hackintosh video, and now the age of Hackintosh is basically dead. RIP.

The move to 'Apple Silicon' certainly seems to be a mostly good thing. Of course soldering SSD's direct to the main board is a crime against humanity Apple persists in committing, and there can be no doubt Apple's habit of skimping on cooling persists... ...in 1-3 years when these machines are full of dust-bunnies it remains to be seen if old problems resurface: Horrendous throttling, chronic overheating resulting in damaged silicon, and the old favourite - overheated IC's de-soldering themselves.

Intel MBP's were originally designed as lap warmers.

this Outro Music should be on all Snazzy Labs videos, it is Perfect!

Quinn - it is a joy to watch your content. You are unique and please stay this way - Humor, professional, practical and with imagination. And those tune you ar using! Keep it rolling ;)

I've been hackintoshing for the last 12 years or so. I bought a M1 mac mini a while ago, i guess hackintosh days are over for me. ,,

Should have gone with the 512GB and saved $200. External SSD's are a good choice for Mac mini because you don't have to move it as much.

I subbed to you back in the day from your Hackintosh videos

Love the snow in the background

Appreciate the bonus review of the teenage engineering case for this. I had seriously considered checking it out but it seems like a total disaster.

My 2009 iMac just died...can I have that one?

def agree, your hackintosh vids were my fav and how I found you

Just curious - How did you use the Z590i with a 10th gen cpu and iGPU? I tried briefly to do a hackintosh with an i5 10400 and b560i from MSI, but couldn't get display out and most "solutions" were basically "no you can't do that."

I would be curious to see a Hackintosh build using virtualisation as a base. i.e. Proxmox with MacOS on top, as opposed to bare metal. I am under the impression that the compatibility and overall setup process is much better

As cool as teenage engineering is, their crazy design oversights don't really surprise me after experiencing the ear(1) >__>

Looks like it's snowing like crazy behind you, happy holidays!

I built a Hacintosh this weekend, now installing ventura

Even with ARM I still see hackintosh still going on strong. Able to upgrade your storage and memory with out the Apple Tax is a blessing.

I just love the shape of the Obscene Tangerine. It seems like those machines found in sci-fi/dystopian future movies from the 80's. Which I call the old future. It's very good to see your honest opinion about Macs and their new future with Apple silicone. Not so bad opinion, but not so fanboy opinion. Even as an Apple fanboy, I like it! Thanks for sharing this experience with us!

Nice video as always. I was wondering if your are into Linux? Is there any chance to imitate the nice look and feel (and cross device usage of processses and data) using Linux and several apps?

I hope you keep making Hackintosh videos!! Don’t let this be the last. (Daily Hackintosh driver)

So I guess we know why Amazon finally pulled the trigger on M1 Mac minis on AWS. Hardware cost may be higher, but not terribly so; will be paid back in time. Electricity costs & cooling costs, which are the real recurring costs for data centers, are super-cheap.

Let‘s “thank” Apple for the not-that-great Mac Pro, this means Apple has to go on supporting an x86 variant of macOS for quite a few years to come.

The case was made for form not function. I love the idea of the aviator switch for power. So much mine has one for power, and one for restart, with a key switch in series with the power so both have to be used. Starting up(on the rare occasion it's shutdown so that I have to start it up...) feels like sending off a nuke.

I liked how you squeezed in a case review

the lengths people will go just to avoid using Windows OS

Hackintoshing will return when actually usable windows machines start shipping with arm processors.

Absolutely enjoyed the video, thanks.

Was this pre mac studio? My M1 Max Studio (base model) may be good to compare against a PC of the same price, although the results would probably be very similar.

You know Quinn, as a seasoned Hackintosher, i have to say while the process was quite full of new experiences each and every time, Hackintoshes are not for people who need to 1. Get stuff done and/or 2. Have a family/friends/life. A Hackintosh is an enormous time sink and sadly i don't believe we have any of that to waste on endless tinkering.

I really like the OpenCore approach but I’m sure it’s a PIA to get running. Years ago in the Z97 days I went hard and used Ozmosis which was an efi boot loader that you would custom build for your exact board and then flash directly to the motherboard. It gave essentially 100% compatibility including thunderbolt on my gigabyte board and would run incremental dot releases no problem but it was a massive pain with setup. After that machine essentially reached EOL when OpenCore released instead of doing it again and hoping I could find another nice German fellow to help me out, I bailed and switched to a 2011 MacPro. The EFI approach works fantastic and is rock solid once done (because it’s not really emulation but rather translation) but it’s too much work for me, even as a CS grad. In some ways I’m sad to see the end of the intel and subsequently the hackintosh days but at least Apple is making reasonable hardware again with distinct advantages.

Congrats to 1M subs - you deserve it so much, great entertaining and out-of-the-box videos!

Great! Please, can you say which broadcom module do you use it ?

At the start of the pandemic I built a hackintosh (using clover) for about $6-700 (including a rx 580 for like $180😶) and while I’m glad I did it and it served it’s purpose, I think it’s time for a real mac. I wasn’t interested in any of the new macs at the time it’s all different this year even with a big price increase I haven’t been this drawn to MacBooks since I bought my last one in 2010!

Before M1, I built a budget Hackintosh containing a quad-core i3. (Yes, I know...) To my surprise, its single core speeds made it feel incredibly snappy; it felt entirely unlike any i3-based machine from Apple. Now that M1 is here and covers the low end, however, I no longer see any reason to build a low-end PC: one cannot beat the value of a $700 M1 mini. In fact, last I checked, a GPU with equivalent horsepower to that integrated into the M1 chips is already nearly $200 of that $700. It's a moot point, though, because it's true that the Hackintosh is on its way out - unless maybe we begin seeing ARMackintoshes popping up. (I'm proud of that name I coined.)

Great video, always good content 👌

It amazes me how the quality of presentation by some of the top YT creators gets better and better. Great style sir and keep it up.

Yeah man, good insight. I expect Apple to improve their silicon even more, and hackintosh will remain a niche for ppl of the "since we can" sort of life. Like me😆 Honestly, I am excited more about linux coming to Apple silicon! Thats the day I will buy a mini or an airbook again. Still use my 2012 airbook with Pop OS and love it.

How is 256gb hardly usable? What do people have on there computers that takes up so much space? Outside of storing lots of games, which people surely aren't doing on a Mac Mini, I haven't personally found a need for 100s of gigabytes of space.

thank you so much for showing opencore. I hackintoshed so many PCs and laptops back in the mojave days

Very cool video! I see it's snowing like mad outside behind you lol.

You'll also need to add the $200.00 for the case to the Intel Build making $1294.64 not $1094.64 and putting the price a good bit over the Mac Mini. Thanks for sharing.

They just used sheet metal screws, you don’t need to tap sheet metal if using sheet metal screws (if they gave you machine screws that’s a different story). That’s not to take away from the obvious issues this case has, which sucks because TE usually does great things and I like the look of the case.

How did you manage to make your igpu work enable graphics acceleration on 500 series motherboard? Do you mind sharing your EFI?

Love the case, just ordered one

I get that Hackintosh doesn't make a lot of sense anymore, but how does the M1 stack up to this machine running Windows? Is there actually a benefit to running MacOS anymore? I used to build PCs from 1998-2010. From 2006-2010 I bought some used Macs to learn. Finally in 2010 I switched completely to Mac for my personal machines. OSX was more stable than Windows and there were more creative software options. Also Macs were still upgradable. You could swap HDDs, RAM, batteries, optical drives, and there were an assortment of ports. Plus they could dual boot Windows if need be. I’ve been a Mac user for 12 years now and over that time Apple machines have gotten less upgradable and the OS has become less stable. I have more crashes and lockups today then I ever did a decade ago. The focus has also shifted from the creative community and education market to being more a high end fashion technology brand that sells flashy disposable gadgets. So even if they have gotten more powerful with the new M1 chips, is there still a benefit for me and people like me to be a Mac user? Assuming that we’ve already gotten to the point where most of us had plenty of computer power years ago to do what we need to do. That we don’t need to render that video 30 seconds faster, because it really doesn’t matter that much for most of us.

Imagine if someone was able to reverse-engineer the M1 processors pinout to make custom pcbs with socketed storage and... maybe a pcie slot. i wonder if thats even possible.

Hi @Snazzy Labs, Just wanna say I gasped when you pushed over the hackintosh. Thanks. haha!

Teenage engineering reminds of good ol days of Mechanix games. Building cool stuff with soft aluminum parts held by metal screws.

17:42 I think this shows you why Professional GPGPUs use HBM for memory instead of GDDR. For AI and Compute workloads at high performance it's easy for the GPGPU to get memory starved, so a solution like a unified SoC or HBM memory is prefferable where super high bandwidth and wide bus width is favourable.

Get a normal case that fits a dGPU like RX 6600 at minimum, use an Alder Lake cpu and follow the tonymacx86 guide. Your performance will be much higher, for not that much extra money.

The way i found your channel was indeed when i was checking for Hackintosh builds. Now i will ride out my Hacky i9 9900K until hopefully a Mac Mini with the Pro/Max chips comes along. What i will do with the Hacky remains to be seen. At the very least it will serve as a very good retro gaming/ gaming rig. Or i might as well scrap the GFX Card out & sell it for some good profit. I was aware of the shortage in GFX Cards, but i was quite surprised how severe it is. Thanks for that info Quinn!

Hhhey! Just discovered the same MacOS X 10.0 Box like you've got in the background! 🤩💻 And btw: great video again! 👍🏼

I like how the case looks a lot, but something that flimsy costing that much is outrageous. At that price they couldn't add 1mm more thickness? I don't like the 'bend it yourself' gimmick either

God, I love the look of this case

Hey can you tell me the name of that red sound card(guess?) below your monitor?

Hi! Love your video! I wanted to ask you if I can turn my hp pc into a hackintosh? Mostly to integrate it to the functions and ecosystem of my iPhone an iPad and maybe some home studio level of music production. My computer it’s a laptop, 8g ram and intel core i7 7th gen. Thanks for your time!

I think it's really important to hit on how much worse the apple chips can be when something is NOT designed specifically for it. That new LTT video for example, shows that sure when a program has specific support built around apple chips it can do well, but when it's most other programs the graphics get FAR worse.

I'll curse Apple's anti-repair practices until the day I die, but when I went shopping for a laptop, the M1 chips made it a no-brainer. Unless you have a very specific piece of software you need to run that's windows-only, they're actually considerably better value than a lot of windows machines out there, especially when you factor in overall build quality and display quality. The lack of ports does suck though.

You really do make the best videos

did you really managed to get the z590 working with the igpu uhd 630 ? I heard this motherboard cannot work with the igpu even from 10th gen only z490 does, so did you change the motherboard in the process ?