GENERAL DESKTOP SUPPORT FOR HACKINTOSHES IS OFF-TOPIC, AND HACKINTOSH TECHNOLOGY MAY VIOLATE APPLE LICENSES. OSx86 (from Mac OS X and x86) is a collaborative hacking project to run the Mac OS X operating system on non-Apple personal computers with x86 architecture and x86-64 compatible processors. A computer built to run this operating system is known as a Hackintosh. Use this tag for questions related to programming on a Hackintosh.
OSx86 (from Mac OS X and x86) is a collaborative hacking project to run the Mac OS X computer operating system on non-Apple personal computers with x86 architecture and x86-64 compatible processors. The effort started soon after the June 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference announcement that Apple would be transitioning its personal computers from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors.
A computer built to run this type of Mac OS X is also known as a Hackintosh.