iATKOS | United Kingdom

Hello,

I was tempted to buy a mac mini Late 2014 and use opencore to install sonoma but was advised that i would have terrible performance with it, so i’ve decided do this instead.

Requirement 1: Budget around £250 with some slack. I will be buying all used parts of course.

Requirement 2: SFF size, compact GPU.

Requirement 3: I want to code apps for IOS and want it to be somewhat future proof. Sonoma and xcode 15. Thats it. I don’t care about doing literally anything else on this hackintosh. I will RDP into it so i can do all my web browsing on my windows PC instead.

Firstly, what generation CPU would you recommend? would a 4790k be sufficient? I don’t expect it to be blazing fast. I just need it to be usable unlike those slow VMs which literally take 30 seconds to minimise a window lol

Secondly, what GPU would you recommend that will work with sonoma and xcode 15? literally the bare minimum GPU. Ideally a compact one that can fit in those narrow dell optiplex cases if i decide to get a used optiplex as my base.

Thanks so much in advance.