Purely hypothetically, with AI automation, it's not completely insane to think that much of macOS could be pre-translated to x86-64. Yet such an endeavor has many caveats, namely the fact that a lot of code, like a browser's JIT JavaScript compilation, doesn't exist on the disk image to begin with.
There's also the fact that no matter how efficient a translation layer is, the OS still needs to cryptographically accept it and run it, perhaps requiring further modification still. But we can, in fact, dream of ditching Windows for macOS without being tied to Apple's pricey and barely-repairable hardware.
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vossile Interesting idea, but if you want ot run macOS, just get a used M4 mini. It's not as though PCs have particularly good compute per Watt to offer, nor are they appealing as far as pricing goes currently. And let's not get into footprint or noise… But technically a fun and interesting project! Reply
Hresna I love apple’s phones, and my daily driver has always been PC for reasons… but the experience of downloading from an iPhone or using iTunes on PC is extremely painful so I have long kept a clunker of a Mac mini around just to do that stuff. I went down the rabbit hole of trying to virtualize one so I could do that once a quarter or so but it was basically not possible for a long while. I don’t have high hopes that this will be a good or less painful solution but a nerd can dream! I eventually setlled on VNCing to a man mini server which allowed close to the same experience, with some compromises. I now have an M1 MacBook with a busted screen that I tether to do this process every 6 months to a year. Its “fine”. Reply
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