The Hackintosh Reborn

Apple's transition to ARM-based processors in 2021 was expected to end the Hackintosh community, but recent AI-assisted development tools like Claude Code and Xcode 26 have unexpectedly revitalized it. Over the past few weeks, developers have achieved major breakthroughs including running macOS 27 on Snapdragon laptops, iOS on Nintendo Switch OLED, and even translated macOS on x86 hardware, suggesting AI may enable users to run Apple software on non-Apple hardware more easily than ever before.