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Encyclopedic overview
34 sectionsContents
- Overview
- History
- Mac OS X Tiger (10.4)
- Mac OS X Leopard (10.5)
- Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6)
- Mac OS X Lion (10.7)
- OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
- OS X Mavericks (10.9)
- OS X Yosemite (10.10)
- OS X El Capitan (10.11)
- macOS Sierra (10.12)
- macOS High Sierra (10.13)
- macOS Mojave (10.14)
- macOS Catalina (10.15)
- macOS Big Sur (11)
- macOS Monterey (12)
- macOS Ventura (13)
- macOS Sonoma (14)
- macOS Sequoia (15)
- macOS Tahoe (26)
- Legal issues and Apple's objections
- Hacking approaches
- Kernel hacks
- Boot loaders and emulators
- EFI emulation
- Boot-132
- Chameleon
- Clover
- Ozmosis
- OpenCore
- Live DVD
- Virtual machine
- See also
- References
thumb|A Hackintosh running OS X Yosemite
A hackintosh (, a portmanteau of "hack" and "Macintosh"), sometimes referred to as OSx86, is a computer that runs Apple's operating system macOS on computer hardware that is not authorized for the purpose by Apple. This is due to the software license for macOS only permitting its use on in-house hardware built by Apple itself, in this case the Mac line.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hackintosh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.