Snapintosh
EL2 hypervisor and toolchain that boots macOS on the ASUS A16 (Snapdragon X2 Elite), with an Adreno Metal/IOGPU stack
Snapintosh launched on 22 October 2026. It ranked #65 on Daily Launch on 25 October 2026 with a Launch Score of 31, from +94 stars on 25 Oct on GitHub. It moved down 10 places from the day before.
What is Snapintosh?
Snapintosh boots Apple's macOS 27 (build 26A428) on an ASUS Zenbook A16 laptop with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite (X2E-96-100). It is an EL2 monitor (hypervisor) and the toolchain around it. The monitor runs Apple's stock kernelcache (the J700/T8140 kernel) unmodified by default. It supplies the platform contracts that the kernel expects from Apple silicon: the SPTM and TXM monitor calls, translation of the kernel's 16 KiB page tables, and the Apple devices the kernel looks for.
From its README on GitHub
Snapintosh is a repo by Snapintosh on GitHub. It is written in Python.
How to get Snapintosh
Get it from its repository on GitHub.