The ARM build of macOS 27.2 now boots on ordinary Intel and AMD PCs.
Stela v0.1.0 is out today. This isn’t a Hackintosh build: it takes the unmodified Apple silicon version of macOS and runs it on x86, translating arm64 code to x86-64 as it goes, with its own Metal driver for NVIDIA cards. The screenshot is a Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an RTX 5080.
To macOS, your PC looks like an M2 Mac mini. macOS and most apps start.
What you need:
An Intel or AMD CPU from about 2011 or newer, 8 GB of RAM, Secure Boot off
An NVIDIA GTX 16 or RTX 20 series card or newer
A USB stick (8 GB or more) and an empty 60 GB partition
Network during the install, since it downloads macOS for you
Setup runs from Windows, Linux or macOS and builds the boot USB. Open source, written in Rust.
https://t.co/BuaqlAMWLg
Some progress on MacOS vm on @omarchy
1. iOS Simulator now runs inside the macOS VM
2. iPhone USB passthrough into Xcode works.
3. cut pointer lag from 51 ms to 20 ms, so it feels about 2.5x snappier.
I believe proper yapping is the next step for software developers. Every dev should learn to do it well.
If you're into coding, AI, and building cool stuff, follow me! I'll share my projects and what I learn along the way.
The last post https://t.co/d9BJzIdCQq did way better than anything I've put out. 48.8K views after DHH reposted it, followers went to 114, and I got added to the Omarchy team's project. Even got a follow from DHH
Most of what I post gets nothing, so that one meant a lot.
I also posted the same video on LinkedIn and it got fewer views, 16.9K, but way more comments and reposts, while being mostly organic.
Reddit outside the Omarchy sub mostly shrugged. One reply said Asahi already did it. Any other social media I should post at? Maybe threads 🤔
Some progress on MacOS vm on @omarchy
1. iOS Simulator now runs inside the macOS VM
2. iPhone USB passthrough into Xcode works.
3. cut pointer lag from 51 ms to 20 ms, so it feels about 2.5x snappier.
Day 1 of my M5 Max PROLED XDR @OmarchyMac bring up.
Thanks to the work of @edimoldovan, @Acelogic_ and others in less than 8 hours I went from first macOS boot to Omarchy on my new laptop!
My agents are confident we will have the touchscreen working by morning - it uses the same chip as the touchpad.
Then I am moving on to a new project that will use this laptop as its testbed and will bring an incredible only-possible-on-Omarchy experience to Apple Silicon.
My buddy Owen and I just got 2nd place in the second hackathon I’ve ever been to. 130 teams (800+ people signed up but only 300ish showed up). Small potato stuff but we both won $2,000.
I was a failed web developer. I didn’t know the difference between storage and ram. Basic concepts in CS were so hard for me.
But I’ve never stopped asking questions.
You can just. Do. Things.
just found out claude code made a FAKE monitor on my mac to do 24/7 building and testing my mac app
computer use sucks sometimes because it takes over ur computer when u wanna use it/work on other stuff
but this solves it - zero clicks, zero keystrokes escape
8/ The hard parts are other people's work.
@aneesbhatti, (steelbrain) the original macOS-on-Asahi KVM bring-up, PAC patch, reims-vgpu.
aquarat (Aaron Scheiner): the QEMU and Reims forks, macOS 26 fixes, the MMIO patch.
Mohamed Mediouni: the vmapple KVM RFC.