As the saying goes, there are three focuses for geeks,
- NAS
- Soft Router
- Hackintosh
Nowadays, YDJSIR proudly declares that YDJSIR has attempts on all the three aspects. YDJSIR’s experience of NAS and soft router has been introduced in OpenWRT with IPv6 in CERNET and Proxy , so YDJSIR won’t talk about them here. The passage is about YDJSIR’s Hackintosh device.
Accessories List
| Accessory | Model | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i3-9100 | ￥700 | personal seller in 闲鱼 |
| RAM | 光威（GLOWAY）弈Pro DDR4 8G 3000Mhz（XMP）x 2 | ￥150 + 180 | personal seller in 闲鱼 |
| Mainboard | ASUS TUF B360M-PLUS GAMING S | ￥0 | GIFT from a friend |
| GPU | ASRock RX560 4G | ￥0 | BORROW from a friend |
| SSD | WD SN750 NVME 250G Kingston M.2 2280-SATA 120G |
￥200+0 | personal seller in 闲鱼 + YDJSIR’s old one |
| HDD | Seagate IronWolf 4TB SATA3.0 5900RPM | ￥0 | YDJSIR’s old one |
| WIFI + Bluetooth | GX-LINKSTAR BCM94360CS2 | ￥130 | personal seller in 闲鱼 |
| Power Supply | Cooler Master MWE GOLD 550W FULL MODEL | ￥0 | GIFT from a friend |
| Case | An ordinary second-hand side transparent case | ￥0 | GIFT from a friend |
Case without BCM94360CS2 and acrylic board
WIFI + Bluetooth Antenna which is magnetic caught near PCIE cards on the case YDJSIR highly recommends GX-LINKSTAR’s WIFI cards!
Status of YDJSIR’s Hackintosh
VDA decode may be effected by YDJSIR’s USB driver, but YDJSIR don’t care it as YDJSIR haven’t meet any difficulties in YDJSIR’s daily use.
EFI files from
https://github.com/stutter0718/ASUS-TUF-B360M-OC
As these EFI files are prepared for
Big Sur, you must edit theconfig.plistif you want to useCatalinaor other versions of macOS. Here is a tutorial.https://macoshome.com/hackintosh/hcourse/3828.html
YDJSIR also has tested EFI from these GitHub repositories as well, but end with severe bugs.
However, they remind me to change settings of my BIOS.
- Advanced —> Onboard Devices Configuration-Serial Port Configuration Serial Port —> Off
- Advanced —> USB Configuration-XHCI Hand-off —> Enabled
- Secure Boot -> OS Type -> Other OS
- Advanced —> PCH configuration-IOAPIC 24-119 Entries —> disabled
- CFG-LOCK -> disabled
- Advanced -> Advanced PCH Configuration -> system time and alarm source -> Legacy RTC
Actual name of these items in your BIOS may vary in different firmware versions. YDJSIR suggest you to search them in the BIOS’s GUI directly (in English).
https://github.com/BDZNH/Hackintosh-EFI
Tested
Audio Card
Siri
USB 3.0 & USB 2.0
RJ-45
WIFI & Bluetooth
HDMI & DVI interface of mainboard
HDMI & DVI interface of RX560
YDJSIR only has one monitor (Dell P2317H), which means that YDJSIR don’t care much about more video output interfaces.
Output Device Output Interface Interface of Monitor ZTE CT320 DVI-I VGA XPS 15 7590 HDMI HDMI Hackintosh RX 560 DP DP
Not Yet Tested
AirDrop
Sidecar
YDJSIR won’t be able to test these function before borrowing YDJSIR’s roommate’s iPad Pro 2020.
Process of Building
Hardware Assembling
Just like a hot knife through butter.
⚠ Don’t forget to modify your BIOS’s configuration according to the instruction above!
❎Daliansky’s Image
The installation process will get stuck at “Remaining 2 minutes”.
The FAQ link beneath mentioned several methods to solve these problems. YDJSIR found that YDJSIR has to replace the related memory fix patches (OsxAptioFixDrv-64.efi, OsxAptioFixDrv3-64.efi, etc. ). YDJSIR haven’t tried any of them.
https://blog.daliansky.net/Common-problems-and-solutions-in-macOS-Catalina-10.15-installation.html
✅老吴黑苹果工作室 Recovery Image
YDJSIR successfully installed YDJSIR’s Hackintosh in such a way similar to using Ghost to install Windows.
macOS Big Sur 11.1
http://pay.k61.org/share_1487.html
The author sells the image at the price of ￥5.
macOS Catalina 10.15.1 19B88
http://k61.org/macOS-Catalina-10.15-19A583-Restore.html
macOS Catalina 10.15.6 17G73
macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 17G65
http://k61.org/macOS-Sierra-10.13.6-17G65-Restore.html
This is the last version that supports NVIDIA video cards.
Installation Tutorial
http://k61.org/Win10-macOS-hackintosh-Restore.html
✅Installing Applications
YDJSIR DON’T USE ANY OF THESE SOFTWARE FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSE.
YDJSIR WON’T PROVIDE ANY HELP IN INSTALLING THESE SOFTWARE.
Office 2019
Source: NJU’s Copyrighted Software Repository
Parallel & Parallel Toolbox
The toolbox is really nice.
Final Cut Pro
Not yet tested.
XCode
Not yet tested.
JetBrains
IDEA
Not yet tested.
PyCharm
Not yet tested.
BaiduNetDisk
You cannot download faster without paying…
Tencent IMs
The experience of QQ & WeChat here is much better than those in Windows.
Proxy
This is the reason why YDJSIR selected Catalina rather than Big Sur.
YDJSIR is not familiar with the iOS-like UI of Big Sur.
Album
Feelings
APPLE has won a hearts of many loyal customers based on price and specialized software ecosystem. macOS makes me feel that it is a system extremely suitable for productivity. No matter its extremely detailed permission management (just the same as iOS) or its extremely smooth and beautiful UI experience excites YDJSIR. It is a system with high security that is smooth and easy to use without extra work. At the same time, the existence of the App Store in the closed-loop ecology (especially an App Store with acceptable access speeds in mainland China) also provides more and better genuine software. Their deep integration with macOS has surprised YDJSIR. For a long time, the main OS of computers of YDJSIR is obviously still Windows and Linux (including WSL2). However, obviously it does not rule out that one day YDJSIR will adopt MacBook Pro as my productivity tool after having a fixed and powerful device.
