What is MyHack ?

What is MyHack ?

Features: 

MYHack is the definite underdog on this list. Like Unibeast and Kakewalk, it can write the official Mac OS X Lion or Mountain Lion installers onto a USB drive, and then modify it so that it can boot on a normal PC. Interestingly, besides working with the Lion and Mountain Lion installer apps, myHack also supports Mac OS X Snow Leopard. 

One of the main differences is that myHack will apply the MBR patch by default. This way, the installer USB drive will be able to install Mac OS X on a hard drive that was formatted by Windows beforehand. 

However, the Mac OS X installation process is where myHack really differentiates itself-- myHack lets you install Hackintosh-specific kexts and configuration files straight from the OS X installer. These are only generic kexts, so your Hackintosh won't work with full functionality after the initial installation of OS X, but it's better than nothing. Afterwards, myHack will run myFix, a tool that clears out kext caches and fixes the boot0 error for hard drives with 4086-byte sectors. Finally, myHack will automatically delete any kext files that are known to cause problems for Hackintoshes.

Comparison: myHack has quite a few more features than Unibeast, so it's a shame that this tool still isn't as popular as it could be. It is the only installer app that applies the MBR patch, fixes the boot0 error, and deletes problematic kexts.

The main reason that myHack hasn't really caught on is because it isn't much better than Unibeast. The extra features that myHack offers are nice, but chances are, you probably don't need any of them.

P.S. If you don't like how myHack only installs generic kexts in the Mac OS X installer, you are actually allowed to install your own "custom" folder of kexts instead. This makes the app somewhat similar to Kakewalk, and (to a lesser extent) tonymacx86's Multibeast tool. However, for most people, it'll simply to easier to use Kakewalk or Multibeast instead.