I was recently tasked with loading Mac OS X on a custom built Intel-based platform. Hackintosh builds have been around for years and until recently was definitely not for the faint of heart. Apple has embraced sufficient hardware vendors that with a modicum of care, building a hackintosh can be accomplished with relative ease. I say “relative ease” as I discovered when I started this task that there is a significant amount of incredibly bad advice out there in the wilds.

To be sure, Apple does not endorse hackintosh builds and it is considered a legal grey area. I am not writing this to recommend one build a hackintosh but to show the interesting learning areas to be gained by building your own computer system. All too often we look at our technology as if it’s a black box. In many ways that is a problem particularly as it relates to security. I believe that the more you know, the better you will be able to debug problems, skirt sketchy security issues, and be comfortable

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