gusbemacbe Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 (edited) Hello, I am a former user of MacBook and Mac mini. Both died. One in 2014 and another last year. I will think of giving my Hackintosh-compatible laptop to my brother that I purchased years ago, because he wants to play more than one computer, so he is a Twitch/YouTube streamer and a hardcore gamer and I will not need to lend him many times. If he wants, from my former laptop I will take only one 240GB SSD Samsung Evo with installed Arch Linux and leave one 500GB HDD for him. In the future, I will purchase a new Alienware laptop. As I got newly graduated, I moved to a new super PC with AMD Ryzen™ 7 2700X CPU and with NVIDIA GeForce™ 1660 Ti GPU. More details, you can see my signature below, that provides the complete details. I own an external SSD m.2 2280 with installed Windows 10. I will reconsider purchasing 4th drive – an external 480GB SSD m.2 2280 SATA WD Green 545MB/s or an external 1TB SSD SATA WD Green 545MB/s – for installing Hackintosh. But purchasing, I need to make sure. 1. Is it worth to install Hackintosh on an external SSD m.2 2280? If I partition two partitions, one for Insansely's MyHack/Chameleon/Clover and another for Hackintosh and my new super-PC boot is natively BIOS and Grub, is it worth? Maybe I will try to install reFind on Arch Linux to replace the Grub if it is worth. 2. I know that it will run on macOS High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina, but if I need Metal 2 to run the latest version of Sketch (the which I own an original licence) and of other apps the which I own original licences? Is NVIDIA GeForce™ 1660 Ti compatible with Metal 2? 3. Since it be an external SSD, will I able to run Hackintosh as a portable OS in other computers? Edited December 13, 2019 by gusbemacbe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gusbemacbe Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 8 hours ago, Hervé said: High Sierra -> up to Pascal generation (with nVidia Web Driver for Maxwell & Pascal cards) Mojave/Catalina -> up to Kepler generation (no Web Driver for those macOS versions) So you can forget about running macOS with that Turing GeForce 1660 Ti. Hello @Hervé, I saw that Turing is the successor of Pascal. I am a bit confused. "Up to" ... it means that Turing micro-architecture is not supported on macOS? 9 hours ago, Hervé said: Then, as you probably know, Apple only natively supports Intel platforms so running OS X/macOS on an AMD platform can be a challenge... You'll have to check if that particular Ryzen generation has existing support. If I purchased Intel i9 9900K, would there still be key aspects to take into consideration? I saw the topics in the category AMD in which they suceeded to install Hackintosh with AMD Ryzen. Maybe I should talk with AMD OS X forum guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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