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Anyone have a guide that actually works to run MacOS on VMware Player/Workstation? For Ryzen CPU.

 

I have tried multiple guides none of which result in a successful boot.

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It's not worth it to emulate MacOS on VMware (Workstation) or VirtualBox.

Trust me, I used this method before with my 32gb ram/Ryzen 7 1700x and RX 580 PC and the VM wasn't great 2 use and wasn't that fast at all.. even after assigning 1gb of vram, 18gb ram and 5 CPU Cores : P

 

For the best experience get a Lenovo 330S (15ikb - 81jn) with those specs (or better) since they are really cheap and fully compatible with MacOS ===>

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Intel i5 8250u

Intel UHD 620 APU

AMD Radeon 535

8gb DDR4 RAM

15,6" FHD Display (can be eventually upgraded for cheap)

I own this Laptop and bought it for 85$ without any drive in it, then I spend 50$ for a 250gb SSD and 5$ for a MacOS compatible WiFi/Bluetooth module.

The performance is like on mid 2013 MacBook Air and all the i/o ports are working. Only thing that isn't working, is the battery status but this can be fixed with 3rd party tools like this one (free) LINK to Apple Appstore - Battery Monitor: Health, Info

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