From the very dawn of the personal computing era, the PC and Apple platforms have gone very different ways. IBM compatibles surged in popularity, while Apple was able to more closely guard the ...

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My mission to build a powerful gaming Hackintosh for $650 — $50 less than Apple’s midrange Mac mini — is almost complete. In Part 1 of this guide, I covered the components I purchased for my build and ...

Is hacking a netbook to run Mac OS X really worth the trouble? Two tech journalists today expressed grief with their Hackbooks, so I felt like chiming in with my thoughts about my somewhat ...

We’ve seen a huge influx of bespoke portable computers over the last couple of years thanks to availability of increasingly powerful single-board computers. The vast majority of these have been ARM ...

OS X is designed to run seamlessly on Mac hardware, but did you know that you can actually install Apple’s desktop operating system on a Windows PC and make what’s called a “Hackintosh?” Apple ...

This is the first article I've written using my new 2018 Mac Mini. Writing an article doesn't stress the machine nearly as much as producing video or doing a 3D model. Even so, it's nice to be able to ...

If the term sounds unfamiliar, here’s the quick version. A Hackintosh is a regular PC that’s been modified to run macOS instead of Windows or Linux. Using community-developed bootloaders such as ...

Commentary: Four years ago, I built a PC, then tricked it to run Mac software. Soon, Apple will stop it from working. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large / News Ian Sherr (he/him/his) ...

Every day, a new hacked-together product sprouts from the ether, and we love to see it. This time, an ingenious YouTuber (via Hackaday) has seemingly done the ...