iPhone 10th Anniversary Concept

The 10th anniversary of the original iPhone will occur next year and a lot of rumors and speculation surrounding a new model has arisen. Most people believe it will come in the form of an iPhone 8 total redesign, completely shattering expectations, however, I believe that a better idea would be to release a 10th anniversary model edition of the iPhone 7 that maintains the design of the original. It would have a metal bottom bar similar to the plastic antenna cover of the original one. The base sizes would be 128GB and 256GB instead of starting at 32GB. I would love for these to be marketed in every store, however, I believe the most likely scenario with an anniversary model would be a limited supply model. The model above maintains the shape and design of the traditional iPhone 7, however, it features the original set of iOS wallpapers. 

iPhone 2G as a comparison (Apple)

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How to Install macOS Sierra on a Hackintosh

Hackintosh: How to Install macOS Sierra on a Hackintosh

Here are the things you'll need (I recommend you save them in a folder on your desktop):

• A genuine Mac
• macOS Sierra Installer | App Store
• EFI Mounter v3 | Link

• Latest version of Clover | Link
• FakeSMC.kext | Link
• An 16GB or more USB

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1) First you're going to want to use a tool in Terminal called "createinstallmedia" to make your USB drive. Assuming the Install macOS Sierra.app is in your Applications folder, run this command in Terminal (replacing where necessary, I'd recommend copying and pasting, and then going back and editing):

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app --volume /Volumes/{USB name here}

This could be anywhere between 10 and 30 minutes, but could be more or less depending on your setup. When the process is completed, you will be able to type in Terminal again.

2) Now run the Clover package. Select the USB as your destination, click Customize and use the following options: "Install for UEFI motherboards" then, under Drivers64UEFI, select "OsxAptioFixDrv-64" and "PartitionDxe-64".

3) Mount the EFI partition of your flash drive using EFI Mounter v3 | Link

It will prompt you to enter your password, do so and press ok. A list of mounting points should appear. disk0s1 is your main drive. Choose the USB drive, mine was disk2s1.

Scroll down and click the USB drive

Now press mount.

4) Place FakeSMC.kext and any kexts you need into /EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other.

4) Now boot from your USB! 

DIDN'T BOOT?: Make sure you're using a USB 2.0 port and your flash drive is 16 GB or higher. You probably will have to configure your BIOS.

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SUGGESTED: How to access the boot menu – Explanation of what each boot flag is and does and how to use them.

Gigabyte AMI UEFI BIOS - Gigabyte AWARD BIOS - ASUS AMI UEFI BIOS - MSI AMI UEFI BIOS - OTHER

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Use the kext-dev-mode=1 and rootless=0 bootflags and add -v to the end of the boot flags so you can get an output of what's going on (verbose mode).

5) Get into the installer, and then install macOS Sierra to your HDD or SSD.

6) When the install completes, reboot, boot from the USB and this time select your main boot drive that you just installed Sierra onto. Use the kext-dev-mode=1 -v and rootless=0 bootflags once again. 

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SUGGESTED: Hackintosh Boot Flags – Explanation of what each boot flag is and does and how to use them.

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7) Install Clover to your boot drive.

7) Copy the FakeSMC.kext and your network kext across to the EFI partition on your hard drive. The rest depends on your system, you may need to download some more kexts and drivers, you may now be good to go. Good luck!

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Beta NVIDIA web drivers are available for macOS Sierra here. Official drivers should be released in the coming weeks.

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If you have any issues installing, leave a comment!

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