I have a hack lap that's been running since 10.11, and recently I've been trying my hand at app dev. However, with an i5-5200u and a small 15.6" display, coding is a pain in the ass and things lag all day. So I looked towards my desktop for help.
I have a z97mx gaming 5 mobo and that thing is a pos. Gigabyte managed to screw up God knows what when they wrote their uefi bios and sometimes it won't pick up efi partitions. Weird shit happens with it too - I failed to install macOS two times and the front panel led broke for a whole day, keyboard input sometimes repeats or is lost, and sometimes the mouse jumps to a corner of the screen.
So I turned to my working hack and installed macos high sierra on an external USB ssd. Unlike windows, macos is pretty independent of the hardware it's installed on. Since I had clover set up correctly (I could boot the installer but couldn't finish the install) I just copied that over to my ssd and managed to boot it first try from my desktop. A little more tinkering later and I have two monitors and an i5-4690k@4.7 GHz with a 980ti eating up xcode for breakfast. Things are fast 😮 now and I expect only smooth sailing 🛥️ from here on out
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