Let’s talk about the future of Hackintosh.
Apple will abandon Intel processor chips for its Macs in favour of their own ARM-based chips.
It’s still in a rumour phase, but most analyst count it as a fact already.
So what does that mean for Hackintosh community?
Is this the real end of Hackintosh era?
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Apple is using their own chips already in the iPhone and the iPad.
And rumours says Apple will introduce ARM based Macintosh next year so in 2020.
So should you - Hackintosh users worry about that?
Apple have done such a transition to different CPU architecture two times already in the past.
First when they switched from 68k to PowerPC and the latest one was 15 years ago, when
they switched from PowerPC processors to x86 Intel.
And next year it’s gonna be a switch to ARM processors.
So, when we are talking about ARM, you may think they are just some lightweight CPUs
used mostly in mobile devices and phones.
Sure, you’re right, ARM processors have come to dominate the smartphone and tablet
territory, but what about I will tell you you can run already these days a 32-core 3.3GHz
ARM machine?
I saw also ARM based Gigabyte server with 56 cores and 224 threads, so we are not talking
about some light weight, this is a real monster, real heavy weight :) So they can be used in
portable devices and take advantage of their low power consumption, but they can also be
used for really heavy - heavy tasks.
So there is no need to worry about it’s performance.
Look at for example at the performance of latest eight-core A12X Bionic Apple’s own
chip used in the iPad Pro.
Geekbench single core performance over 5000 points and multicore quite 18000 points takes
it roughly on par with Intel Core i7-7700k.
And we are talking about tablet performance versus desktop Core i7.
Now imagine what performance could be revealed from desktop / server multicore ARM systems
like I mentioned before.
So what can we expect.
We don’t know yet if the new macOS for ARM chips will be as restrictive and closed system
as an iOS is these days, but most likely YES.
It’s also still unclear how much will the new architecture be similar or different to
existing ARM chips, or if Apple will make any restriction in their hardware like is
doing already these days using their T2 chip (which is BTW an ARM based chip), but again,
I bet so.
There will definately be a transition period where both ARM chipsets and x86 will be supported
in macOS for next couple of years simultaneously.
For example still quite fresh MacOS Mojave was released just few month ago, but is still
natively and officially supported on Mac mini Late 2012, iMac Late 2012 and even on MacBook
Pro Mid 2012.
So on 7 years old Macs.
So if Apple will transition to their own proprietary CPUs in 2020, there will be more likely again
the same 7 year support for their older Macs, so for todays and next years Macs.
So support up to year 2027.
Oh God, 7 years in computer industry is like ages in ordinary life.
There could change so many things in 7 years in computers, so you don’t need to worry
about anything right now.
And most production studios are still running some old macOS versions rather than latest
macOS Mojave.
I still run systems 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.11 El Capitan, 10.13 High Sierra
and of course 10.14 Mojave.
In production environment there is no need to upgrade to latest system currently available,
it’s risky, it’s problematic and brings more expenses.
They rely and stay on verified and trusted workflow.
So your Hackintosh would be running in few years as great as is running now.
Who really needs that dark mode on macOS Mojave?
I use the light theme, because it’s more polished and eye pleasant.
Who needs those stupid stacks on desktop?
I have all that crap disabled.
So I could do without any problem all my work the same way on High Sierra.
So I’m personally absolutely not afraid of this transition, I rather welcome it.
By my opinion it’s a very good move.
I think this could be again one of the magical moments in Apple’s history, that can bring
back the good old Power Macintosh spirit into our beloved Macs, which I’m missing so much
for long years already.
So you just simply freely enjoy your Hackintosh build for about next 7, 8 years.
And also in those years we will finally get an answer to the question, if some clever
developers will find some way how to workaround those restrictions like they did with current
Intel PCs and even with AMD Hackintosh builds.
So let me know down in comments section what do YOU personally think about this Apple’s
transition to ARM based processors and if you are afraid of it or not.
I hope I brought a little bit of light and calmer sleep again to you.
So guys, that’s all for today, thank you for watching and see you next time my Hackintosh
friends.