cpeek Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 I have been torn between building a Hackintosh vs buying a 2012 Mac Pro 5,1 machine. I have built many Windows/Linux machines and servers over the last 20+ years, so I am comfortable with the hardware process. However, I had been leaning towards buying mainly for OS compatibility reasons. That was my direction until Apple recently announced they would not support fairly decent hardware that is only six years old (e.g. the 2009 Mac Pro 4,1 machines). As such, I am leaning towards a Hackintosh and even though I have done extensive reading on various forums, I still have some basic questions. First, I would be buying new and using all main stream components listed on the guides. Assuming that I use a supported motherboard (e.g. Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 TH) and supported video card (e.g. nVidia 980), is it reasonable to expect all of the various features below to work once you have applied the various kernel extensions and fixes: 1) USB 2 2) USB 3 3) Audio 4) Thunderbolt 5) Wired LAN 6) iMessage/Facetime 7) Wake/sleep 8) Continuity features (would install Apple Broadcom card) 9) All other OS features 10) 4k video 11) HDMI audio I guess another way to put it, is there anything that regularly ends up not working or is severely limited? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosakgroove Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 ITUNES HD Trailers seem to freeze some computers or to not work, or work only audio.. For the rest all should work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaseemAlkurdi Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 ITUNES HD Trailers seem to freeze some computers or to not work, or work only audio.. For the rest all should work Mostly Intel HD 3000 or above computers.It is fixed using a Kext called Sikhil (or sth) Userspace Patcher over this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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