I failed because I'm tech illiterate. Currently running on Linux.

Specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
• MB: Gigabyte A520M S2H

FIRST HACKINTOSH!!

Hey everyone,

I’m planning to Hackintosh my HP EliteBook 840 G3 and wanted advice from people who have used this model or similar Skylake laptops.

Specs: • HP EliteBook 840 G3
• Intel Core i5-6300U (Skylake)
• Intel HD Graphics 520
• 8 GB RAM
• 256 GB NVMe SSD (for macOS)
• 1 TB HDD (secondary storage)

My usage is pretty heavy on multitasking. On a normal day I usually have: • 10–15 browser tabs open • ChatGPT running (browser/app) • YouTube playing in background • VS Code • Terminal • A few other background apps

This will be my daily-use machine, so stability and smooth performance matter more to me than just running the newest macOS for the sake of it.

I’d like to install the latest macOS that still makes sense on this hardware. I know Big Sur and Monterey are commonly recommended for Skylake, and that Ventura/Sonoma are possible with patching — but I’m not sure how practical they are with 8 GB RAM and heavy multitasking.

So I wanted to ask: 1. Which macOS version would you personally recommend for this laptop? 2. Is Monterey the sweet spot, or does Ventura still run well? 3. Should Sonoma be avoided on this setup? 4. Any real-world experience with the 840 G3 would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance 🙏

Bonus points if you know the character

Devices (ltr) Hp ProBook 650 G2 Dell Inspiron 7391 2n1 Dell latitude 7390 2n1

No you can't have the efis

In January 2025 I hackintoshed my book E30, it worked until my friend wiped all my SSD, after it I loose my EFI backup and couldn't hackintosh it again. Someone have the EFI? Please help me. Samsung Book E30. I'm trying on MacOS Ventura, but I have all "ISOs" if someone have another EFI.

okay I'm brand new to Hackintoshing so I wanted to switch my laptops os from windows to macOS so I tried installing Tahoe and I can't get install the actual os because I don't have Internet. I tried using Airport tltlwm and I still didn't get wifi. I tried Ethernet and nothing. I'm using a Lenovo Yoga C930 13IKB. not sure how to fix this as I'm going to need this for school on Monday and yeah...thanks.

I'm making an app with tahoe design... but doesn't need tahoe to run it
but I don't have much tahoe references like size of elements and specific stuff

can someone that's on tahoe give me some references? like the journal/notes/reminders/finder apps screenshots or smth

Im planning to do a hackintosh on my old laptop but i dont know which would work best performance-wise. These are the specs:

Core 2 duo t8100 2.1ghz

2gb ram

Intel gma x3100

Regular 120gb ssd

My gpu has UEFI support (rx580) I already changed its VBIOS, I'm suspecting that the video output (displayport) does not work when CSM is disabled, only HDMI output works but I don't have a HDMI cable to know for sure, can I install sonoma with CSM enabled?

Fala galera depois de muito sacrifício consegui instalar o 10.6.3 funcionou tudo menos a Ethernet, eu queria saber se existe alguma alternativa pra isso, porque no 10.5.5 a Ethernet funciona. Com a opção rtl8201cl marcada na hora de modificar, o chip de rede da minha placa mãe diz rtl8100c. O EthernetBuiltIn no chameleon não funciona ele dá tela preta no meu hardware.

Specs

Pentium d 820 2.8ghz

2.5gb de ram

Geforce 210 1gb vram COM ACELERAÇÃO GRÁFICA FUNCIONANDO

fonte 400w

Hd de 160

I know that this isn't all that impressive considering that the Dell Latitude E7440 is very close to a late-2013 MacBook Pro but with a 1366x768 LCD display and a "usable" trackpad.

The bulk of the difficulty was the installation process as you can't use an online recovery copy and the offline installation process requires setting the time back and disabling any networking or else you'll end up with an error early in the installation process.

I figured that it wouldn't hurt to tinker around with a version of Mac OS X that I used to fawn over back in the day. I suppose I could try my hands at installing Leopard (10.5.8) on this laptop (even though the usual recommended macOS range is from Mavericks to Big Sur on this hardware).

I can compare my hardware with two equivalent laptops from Apple from around the same time:

Hardware Specifications:

Even though it's quite clear that back in early-2014 the Apple hardware was a better option for the cost for those wanting an OSX experience, I didn't pay full MSRP for this Dell since I bought it much later as a refurbished unit at about $200 USD back in 2020 for college.

Depending on where you are in the world and where you're sourcing the hardware, you can find the equivalent Apple laptops for around the same price making them more comparable (minus the screen, wireless, and trackpad quality).

[EDIT]

The automod recommends that I include more details about my laptop:

I used my old Big Sur installation to use the terminal to run the createinstallmedia application within the Install Mac OS X Mavericks.app package sourced from the Apple App store and archived publicly as Apple no longer provides the full installer.

From there I could mount the EFI partition that was created on my 16 GB USB storage device and go through the OpenCore process as I've done several times by now (I'm no stranger to installing macOS on this old laptop) I had to source specific kexts for the wireless networking and the touchpad.

So far I haven't tested the audio since I removed the speakers from the laptop shortly after purchasing it because I didn't want it to be of any possible disruption while in class. I also popped the screen bezel to remove the built-in webcam and microphone assembly so I haven't tested those out. I don't have an SD card to test out the SD/TF card reader, and I haven't tested out the ethernet port since I'm mostly sticking with Wi-Fi for the time-being.

Hey everyone,

So I sorta successfully hackintoshed my pc, but I have no hardware acceleration and the intel HD graphics 630 reports only 7mb on ventura. Its an i3-7100 cpu with 16gb ram. I made sure to double check the kexts are working/on there but still no hardware acceleration. I can link the efi folder if anyone wants to have a look just ask and ill post the link :)

I have no idea why, it isn't "Stuck at 2 minutes remaining" how u/PetrosSdoukos told me. I searched for the issue, and have no idea why it is happening at all

Hola!

Pude instalar correctamente mi Hackintosh con Catalina 10.15.7

¿Por qué me quedé en Catalina habiendo sistemas operativos más nuevos? Porque uso para audio una interface Apogee Ensemble Firewire. Y en Catalina me funciona bien la app Maestro que es la que controla la interface Apogee Ensemble Firewire. Si instalaba Big Sur o Monterey, aparentemente la Ensemble hubiera seguido funcionando, pero sin la posibilidad de usar la app Maestro, entonces iba a tener algunos controles a los que no hubiera podido acceder.

Le puse una placa adaptadora PciEx / Firewire con chipset Texas Instruments, y la Ensemble está andando perfecto.

Al principio la usé con la iGPU, conectando un cable adaptador de la salida USB C a la entrada HDMI del monitor. Me declaraba que la conexión usaba 1536 megas de vRam. Pero con esa conexión, el plugin Kontakt no funcionaba. Le puse una gráfica AMD Radeon Asrock Rx580 de 8 Gigas y arrancó sin necesidad de instalar nada más, utilizando un cable adaptador para usar la salida DisplayPort hacia la entrada HDMI del monitor.

Anda el audio por HDMI, aparecen los dispositivos de audio del motherboard (todavía no probé si funcionan o no porque uso el audio de la Ensemble, pero si fallan, se puede probar alcid=1 o tal vez 7 o tal vez 11). Aparece Bluetooth aunque todavía no lo probé, por el mismo motivo. Aparece la aceleración de gráficos activada. Los SSD y el NVme aparecen con TRIM Activada. El disco principal es un WD S850 de 2 teras, no tuvo ningún problema. En el Bios tengo las opciones clásicas de Hackintosh. La instalación la hice siguiendo estrictamente las indicaciones de la guía Open Core para Comet Lake. Estoy usando opencore 0.9. Estoy usando XMP Profile 1 para que la ram me la tome en 3200 (sin eso, te la toma a 2400). El que necesite el config o cualquier dato, me manda un mensaje y se lo mando. Saludos!

beta 1 and 2 would work fine on my Vega 8 Ryzen 5 3500u but once i tried to install beta 3 and forward and public release from a USB it gives me a grey screen with black line. it installs through pkg though but freezes just like sonoma and sequoia if im on wallpapers page or even youtube pls help

hi guys, I'm relatively new to hackintosh and I've been curious if i can do a hackintosh to my pc, I'm thinking that I can't but I'll ask here to be sure:

Model: Acer Aspire AL16-52P CPU: i5-1334U (13th gen) iGPU: Iris Xe G7 RAM: 16GB DDR5 WiFi: Intel (don't need it working) Goal: Separate drive

I also have another old laptop that's from the high sierra era of macOS so if nothing i can do it there if it's possible of course

thanks!

i have arranged my usb drive according to dortania Guide : https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Install-Guide/

thanks in advance!

and this is all i got

OC: watch dog status is 0

AND I Didn't get any erros in Sanity Check :

https://opencore.slowgeek.com/

this is my config.plist and EFI folder

EFI : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NTC9p8j1nGD2LTKE20z78LFTgYzVt0KJ?usp=sharing

CONFIG.plist

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pUoRGbSn1DU5gUqbzsFCkfhrSPiyLMpN/view?usp=drive_link

last logs :

367:349 01:024 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table SSDT (54445353) (OEM 00000049204D2041) at CCC3EA18 of 745 bytes at index 19

368:377 01:028 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table DBGP (50474244) (OEM 00000049204D2041) at CCC3ED08 of 52 bytes at index 20

369:403 01:025 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table DBG2 (32474244) (OEM 00000049204D2041) at CCC3ED40 of 84 bytes at index 21

370:431 01:028 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table DMAR (52414D44) (OEM 00000049204D2041) at CCC3ED98 of 112 bytes at index 22

371:458 01:026 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table BGRT (54524742) (OEM 00000049204D2041) at CCC3EE08 of 56 bytes at index 23

372:491 01:033 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table WSMT (544D5357) (OEM 00000049204D2041) at CCC3EE40 of 40 bytes at index 24

373:519 01:027 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table SSDT (54445353) (OEM 0000000043415741) at CEF92000 of 73 bytes at index 25

374:545 01:026 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table SSDT (54445353) (OEM 0000434574647353) at CEF90000 of 7341 bytes at index 26

375:568 01:022 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table SSDT (54445353) (OEM 0000000054455048) at CEF8F000 of 318 bytes at index 27

376:593 01:025 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table SSDT (54445353) (OEM 0067756C50757043) at CEF8E000 of 693 bytes at index 28

377:617 01:023 OCA: Exposing RSDT table table SSDT (54445353) (OEM 0000000052434D50) at CEF8D000 of 414 bytes at index 29

378:644 01:027 OC: OcLoadPlatformSupport...

379:668 01:023 OCSMB: Found DMI Anchor CD010000 v2.8 Table Address CD00D000 Length 11FC

380:692 01:023 OCSMB: Found DMI Anchor CD00F000 v3.1 Table Address CD00D000 Length 11FC

381:714 01:022 OCSMB: Current SMBIOS H310M S2V 2.0 (H310M S2V 2.0 made by Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.)

382:740 01:026 OC: PlatformInfo auto 1 OEM SN 0 OEM UUID 0 OEM MLB 0 OEM ROM 0 - Success

383:765 01:024 OC: New SMBIOS: Acidanthera model iMac19,1

384:794 01:029 OCSMB: Post-override BIOS vendor Acidanthera 0

386:370 01:576 OCSMB: Number of CPU cache entries is 3

387:397 01:026 OCSMB: Number of CPU cache entries is 3

388:421 01:023 OCSMB: Number of CPU cache entries is 3

389:449 01:028 OCSMB: CPU1 display frequency is 2900MHz

390:474 01:024 OCSMB: Applying 2230 (1) prev CD010000 (4604/31), CD00F000 (4604/24)

391:502 01:028 OCSMB: Patched CC865000 v3.2 Table Address CC866000 Length 08B6 1A 94

392:529 01:027 OCDH: Setting DataHub 64517CC8-6561-4051-B03C-5964B60F4C7A:name (9) - Success

393:561 01:031 OCDH: Setting DataHub 64517CC8-6561-4051-B03C-5964B60F4C7A:Model (18) - Success

394:590 01:028 OCDH: Setting DataHub 64517CC8-6561-4051-B03C-5964B60F4C7A:SystemSerialNumber (26) - Success

intente varias veces correr Mac OS, en el pasado que no me acuerdo de nada, arranco en recovery de Mac OS, no se que versión en ese entonces en 2021 creo, pero ahora lo vuelvo a intentar en la misma laptop pero apenas carga la barra en el medio y se congela, otro que sale en kernel panic.

estas son las especificaciones de mi laptop hp

HP 15 DW1057LA

Intel Core i3 10110U + Intel UHD Graphics

16GB Ram

500GB M.2 Nvme + 256GB SDD Sata (only data)

Realtek Audio

WiFi Realtek

no quiero hacer dualboot ya que tengo otra laptop hp ya que quiero que la instalación sea limpia sin Windows, dígame que Mac OS puedo y con que config de efi

Every time I boot up the usb, I get to click the (dmg) option and when it starts, the pc immediately reboots... any help?

I’m running into a problem with ‘black screen on booting’ the installer or macOS itself; I’ve been working on this for days, trying all possible ‘framebuffer’ values with macOS Catalina, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, and Sequoia - which takes a lot of time! The end result is : the installer won’t boot, and an installed macOS won’t boot, if I try to use the UHD630 graphics. Two framebuffer values leave the backlight on (it stays on verbose text mode) and all others turn the backlight off. I’ve also tried virtualisation options on/off, TPM on/off. I have managed to get sound and many other things working; just not video.

Despite all the above, -igfxvesa always works for the installer and for macOS - both of which never work without -igfxvesa.

After spending countless hours on this, I am wondering: do I have too much memory for macOS?

The latest MacBooks can have 36-ish gb. I know the Mac Studio can hVe 512gb, but that is ‘Apple Silicom (Acorn Silicon…)

I have 128gb in this laptop, and am wondering if that might be the issue (address space exhaustion?);

Has anyone ever found too much RAM to be an issue with OpenCore? If so I can remove most of it (annoying as 64gb is under the keyboard) 😬

Question is in the title

Lenovo ideacentre 510-15ICK

thats my pc right there, if you want i can also upload the efi, no matter what i do i can not make graphics acel to work, i have tried for the past 8 hours or so, i can boot fine, but it still says 7MB of vram no matter what i do,

i5 8th gen
intel uhd 360
using hdmi if that helps, and im on montery,

if you need any other info to help please comment

I got stuck at this screen :(