Apple deprecates Intel processors Black Apple Is Not Dead: Added support for 12th generation Core and Z690 motherboards

Today's desktop operating systems are Windows, Linux, and macOS. Needless to say, Linux benefits from open source and openness, and derivative distribution systems emerge in an endless stream, which is very popular.

As for Apple's macOS, it is the most closed system. However, due to its outstanding performance in the fields of development and design, it also played a piece of the market and gained a firm foothold.

Due to the significant difference in the number of users, a branch of "Hackintoshes", also known as Black Apple, appeared in the Windows camp. Although Apple has begun to develop arm-based self-developed M processors two years ago, and is expected to complete the "cleaning" of Intel in the Mac product line this year, don't forget that there are also folk gods.

The Black Apple Bootloader OpenCore project, which is still diligently updated, added support for Intel's 12th generation Core Alder Lake processors and Z690 chipsets in v0.7.7, including but not limited to DDR5 memory (XMP), PCIe 5.0, etc.

Of course, the support is not perfect, after all, in reality, there is no precedent for carrying the 12th generation of Core in the Mac, including the incompatibility of thread Director (thread scheduler) leading to performance degradation when the E core (small core) is turned on, and the kernel does not work (the 11th generation Core is also) and so on.

In other words, if you want to display the module normally, you'd better deploy Black Apple on a platform that uses AMD graphics cards.

It is reported that Open Core is also backward compatible with classic PC hardware, including macOS Tiger (10.4), Snow Leopard (10.6) and other systems.