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May-2017: I have reformatted the entire guide so that it now works with the major update to the website's framework that was implemented by TonyMac and the gang last year. I hope this guide helps you fix your iMessage problems and more importantly that you gain a better understanding of how Apple's on-line eco and messaging systems work and the importance of configuring OS X and it's System ID's Correctly. I have tried to list credit to those that have contributed directly to the guide at appropriate points in the text but there are far too many names to list and thank individually so my thanks goes out to everyone in the OS X community who helped or had input to the guides content.

This guide is all my own work and is the result many hours of experimentation, research and writing, however I would not have been able to join all the dots together and create the guide without the help and support of the OS X Hackintosh community on this and other forums. I hope you like the improvements, by breaking the guide up into different chapters and re-ordering some of the procedures, new-comers to the guide should be able to find the information they need quicker, use the Index below to quickly navigate to specific sections in the guide, you will find a link at the end of each chapter to return back to the main index. with well over 1 million views the time was right to put some some structure to it all. it wasn't intentional, I just never imagined that it would become such a popular subject and grow so big.

In Jan 2015 the guide became totally un-manageable, news, tips, notes, fixes and procedures were all combined in to one massive post. However, as Apple's messaging app and its on-line eco-system has matured over the years, getting this unique messaging system to work correctly on non-Apple hardware has become more and more complex and i've done my best to keep the guide up to date. My original guide started life as just a few paragraphs on getting iChat running on OS X Lion, back then things were simple and easy. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide

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