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 ...

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 ...

Building a hackintosh—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware—used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now ...

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) ...

The only way to get Apple's MacOS operating system is to buy one of Apple's own Macs. That's pretty much the way it's always been. Or at least, that's the only official way. The computer pictured ...

Click to viewOn Tuesday I detailed how I built a Hackintosh Mac from start to finish on the cheap, but one obvious question remained unanswered: How does my Hackintosh stack up to the Apple-built ...

Windows fans can build their own computers when they can’t find one in stores to match their needs, but custom-made Macs are much harder to put together, as Apple doesn’t like having its software and ...

Apple famously transitioned away from PowerPC processors in favor of Intel's back in 2006. The move was provoked out of the need to stay competitive in desktop performance and IBM's inability to ...

Earlier this week Apple announced that it would spend the next two years transitioning all of its Macs to ARM-based processors. The justifications are clear and totally valid: Intel is sucking wind ...

Is it too much to ask for a bit of power in a 13-inch laptop? And why, in 2020, must I choose between Mac software and the ability to play some games. In these dark times I wonder: will I ever have it ...