r/hackintosh 6h ago

QUESTION Dual boot macOS

1 Upvotes

I was wondering if my laptop could run macOS with light tasks or will it just not work since I don’t think my hardware is supported

-intel core i7-13620H
-R t x 4050
- 32GB of ram

I don’t think my gpu is supported but will it still run light tasks or will it not even run at all?


r/hackintosh 8h ago

SUCCESS Successful +5db Volume Amplification with Modified AppleAlc.kext (Latitude 7490)

2 Upvotes

So I love my latitude 7490 Hackintosh, I can triple boot Ventura, Somona, and Sequoia, but the sound was never loud enough, and I would need to install eqMac to boost the max volume on all of my installs. Well I spent the day today creating a modified AppleALC driver with the help of AI, and it boosts the max volume by about 5db. Even audio content that was loud to begin with, does not clip or distort when using this kext, and it has been tested on two different machines. Requires the following boot-args to function: alcid=56 alcverbs=1 -alcdhost

https://github.com/maddog860/5db-Volume-Boost-Latitude-7490/releases/tag/Volume-Boost

This includes a writeup that explains what was figured out today, and how this approach can increase the max volume of other hackintoshes. Enjoy everyone, and feel free to post feedback. This post is not asking for help, just submitting my positive results with artificial assistance, and therefore should not break any rules.

The specific undocumented/poorly documented 7490 audio details established were:

  • The codec is Realtek ALC256 / Dell ALC3246, vendor ID 0x10ec0256.
  • The internal speaker pin is node 0x14.
  • Its pin config is 0x90170110.
  • That speaker pin routes to DAC node 0x02.
  • The DAC/output amp capability came back as 0x00025757, corresponding roughly to a range from about −65 dB up to 0 dB.
  • At 100% macOS volume, the DAC gain was already sitting at 0x57 on both channels, which is the top of that hardware range.
  • The speaker EAPD was already enabled (0x02), so there wasn't an obvious hidden “turn the speaker amp fully on” switch left unused.
  • The codec also has a vendor processing node 0x20 exposing 91 coefficients (0x5b). One of those, coefficient 0x37, is associated in Linux codec work with Class-D amplifier control.
  • The 7490’s internal amplifier is about 2 W per channel.

r/hackintosh 10h ago

SOLVED I downgraded my thinkpad to sonoma…

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48 Upvotes

Hello everyone, after all the lag, i decided i should’ve listened and downgraded. Now lots of things are working better and natively!


r/hackintosh 12h ago

QUESTION Wifi and audio drivers

2 Upvotes

Is there any wifi and audio drivers for macos tahoe that would work fof me my specs are. amd. radeon rx 6600 amd ryzen 5 16 gigs of ddr4 asus prime a320-k


r/hackintosh 15h ago

QUESTION What laptop to get?

3 Upvotes

I recently sold my PC and am looking to hackintosh a laptop. I'm considering thinkpads or the razer blade, xps. Under 400, and I need decent battery life. I like to run Mojave, or newer versions. I need decent gaming performance, can yall help me? thanks


r/hackintosh 15h ago

SUCCESS Sonoma in Razer Blade Stealth 12,5 7500u

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22 Upvotes

r/hackintosh 16h ago

SUCCESS Successful hackintosh on Dell Inspiron 5458

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18 Upvotes

SPECS:

Intel Core i5 5200U

8GB DDR3 ram

Intel HD Graphics 5500

MacBook Pro 12,1 SMBIOS

THINGS THAT DOESN’T WORK:

iPhone screen mirroring

Facetime and Messages

Bluetooth

Help:

Can someone help me to solve the boring throttling thing using an app? Because this laptop has an old battery


r/hackintosh 16h ago

HELP macOS Tahoe without sound on Apple Music (app and web)

1 Upvotes

I have the knowledge that with macOS 26 apple removed support to AppleALC, but I use a usb headset. Everything is okay, but I need to know what can I do.

Can anybody help me?


r/hackintosh 19h ago

HELP HELP ME!!!!!!!

0 Upvotes

How do I use a wireless network on macOS Tahoe? I'm use AirPortitlwm


r/hackintosh 20h ago

HELP Hey everyone! I have a 8GB flash drive , i can hackintosh with 8GB?

0 Upvotes

My laptop : HP-15 da0054tu
4GB ram , i3 Kaby Lake , 500gb hdd
Intel Graphics HD 620

(Please help me)
It’s a difficult challenge for me. (my English is bad btw)


r/hackintosh 1d ago

DISCUSSION As predicted Apple is already pushing app developers away from Intel support

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140 Upvotes

r/hackintosh 1d ago

HELP Memory Panic

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1 Upvotes

I am currently stuck on a Memory Panic that is driving me up a wall right now. (Trying to boot up to Sequoia Installer.)

If anyone asked. Yes, I did the Guide and there's NO OCAT, OpCore Simplify, Jerkmate, or whatever kind of hackintool in this EFI.

Here's the Specs.

CPU: Ryzen 5 2600x Six Core Processor

GPU: Radeon RX 580 Series 8GB Model

RAM: 2x16gb

SSD: T-Force 1TB SSD

Motherboard: B450M DS3H Wifi (Rev 1.5)

If anyone is asking me about the EFI. Then I can send it in the replies.


r/hackintosh 1d ago

IT BOOTS! (WIP) Update

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29 Upvotes

Updated succesfully to 13 Ventura and currently installing Sonoma to Test

Update Succesfully installed 14.9.8 Sonoma. Just cant seem to get my Touchpad working as a Touchpad only as a mouse


r/hackintosh 1d ago

DISCUSSION Port Intel 12, 13, 14th gen iGPU driver using modern LLM agents? (Similar to what Alyssa did for Linux)

21 Upvotes

In this day and age the GPUs are expensive.

We have the source code for Intel iGPUs inside Linux source code.

How about porting that code to macOS?

What do you think?


r/hackintosh 1d ago

HELP Significant performance drop on Sequoia vs Windows?

1 Upvotes

I just put together a hackintosh system with a 270K plus CPU. In Cinebench R23, I get about only 30k in multi-core, whereas Windows gets around 40k. Even my old 14700k hackintosh got slightly higher scores (~33k), which has me confused. I'm using the iMacPro1,1 SMBIOS, SSDT-PLUG-ALT.aml from SSDTTime, and cputopologyrebuild.kext with -ctrsmt. Is there any way to improve performance or is this the best I'm going to get?


r/hackintosh 2d ago

DISCUSSION (WIP) iron metal1 -> VK/D3D

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61 Upvotes

I’ve seen a lot of metal projects and they all seem to require a virtual machine to run to do runtime translation which made me think

Why can’t we do this without a virtual machine why do we need runtime vgpu translation ?

Then I started and I saw why they went the VM route. Metal is so weird in some places compared to Vulkan or D3D but after countless HOURS (and still ongoing!)

I present to you guys Iron which is, to my knowledge the most complete Metal1 and MSL compiler implantation for any given Metal version (I know darling exists but they don’t say hey we implement 100% of this Metal standard)

Iron is a source compatible Metal implementation, not binary compatible (drop in replacement if you use metalcpp they have the same exact api) it currently has the Vulkan backend wired in with D3D12 coming only after I finish Metal2 but the neutral IR allows anyone to layer metal over any backend they want it was made with a neutral implementation in mind to allow this it isn’t hard locked to Vulkan.

Who would benefit from this? Anyone working with metalcpp and wanting their code to work as is on other platforms. Someone can easily make a objc wrapper over this but this is outside my goal

Current numbers:

Metal 1: 1027 / 1086
MSL 1.0: 9/526 (MSL1.1 and MSL1.2 come after 1.0 is done they are part of the Metal1 gate)

Sources:
Metal documentation from Apple
Metal cpp from Apple (the fact they open sourced this means a project like this was bound to happen sooner or later)
Commandline tools only for total symbols
IRON DOES NOT TAKE OR USE ANY PRIVATE APPLE API ALL METAL BEHAVIORS AND QUIRKS ARE IMPLEMENTED BY USING A BLACK BOX APPROACH OF RUNNING METAL AND VULKAN THEIR COMPARING THEIR BYTE OUTPUTS!!!!


r/hackintosh 2d ago

HELP Need a RX460 GPU

0 Upvotes

hi there i am trying to make my hackintosh work but i have i5-11400H ( TigerLake ) is there anyone in india who got a rx460 and wanna sell it


r/hackintosh 2d ago

SUCCESS Tahoe on Lenovo ThinkPad T470s

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73 Upvotes

Hello here’s my final product!!!

How it runs: Okay, about the same performance as a 2017 macbook pro. Except i got it up to tahoe. There is some lag but i dont use it for heavy things so its okay!

Working:
Wi-Fi (native without heliport)
Bluetooth
Sound
DRM
iServices
Graphics Acceleration
Camera
Trackpad
Keyboard
USB ports
Ethernet
Brightness Keys
Sleep

Not working:
HDMI (if you know how to fix please tell me)

Not tested:
SIM card slot (prob won’t and will never work)
sd card slot
Headphone jack

May downgrade but idk

Specs:
20GB DDR4 RAM
Intel Core i5-7200U (7th gen)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 620


r/hackintosh 2d ago

HELP Can someone help me install macos tahoe on my laptop t14s gen 1

0 Upvotes

Specs: Intel i7-10610U, 32gb ram ddr4, m.2 nvme ssd 256gb + 1tb external hdd, igpu 620 uhd
No dualboot
This gonna be my main system on my nvme
and i want audio and wifi to work
and if u recommend for me to not use tahoe tell me
im gonna use macos for dev, simple games like roblox, gd, and amongus, and for designing


r/hackintosh 2d ago

HELP I have intel i5 7th gen

0 Upvotes

I have an old dell Latitude 5580 with intel i5 7th gen chipset. help me step by step guide how can I have a functioning hackintosh on it with working i services


r/hackintosh 2d ago

DISCUSSION hi everyone i want to know can i install hackintosh (any version) on asus tuf gaming f16

1 Upvotes

specs: i7-14650HX its have integrated gpu, im new to linux and everything like that so please tell me can i run it atleast via vm?


r/hackintosh 2d ago

QUESTION advise for a laptop

0 Upvotes

guys i Need an advice whats a good laptop to use for hackintosh that doesnt cost a kidney ? and that i could possibly use for school and shit like that ?


r/hackintosh 2d ago

HELP help with config.plist on my pc

0 Upvotes

Hi everyone, I’m new to this. Could you please help me configure the config.plist for my hardware? I have an i3-4130, a Gigabyte GeForce GT 740, 6GB of RAM, a 1TB Toshiba HDD, and a Gigabyte GA-H81M-S1 motherboard. I’m planning to install macOS 10.13. OP 1.0.7


r/hackintosh 2d ago

QUESTION Is this real?

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

270 Upvotes

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZN8F3MmHv/

yeah I don't believe this and the creator turned off comments, and codex open


r/hackintosh 2d ago

HELP Sandy Bridge i7-2600 + ASUS P8P67: UEFI boot failures and OCB errors after legacy installation

3 Upvotes

I’m trying to set up an OpenCore Hackintosh on an older Sandy Bridge platform, but I’ve hit a brick wall regarding UEFI booting with my motherboard.

The ASUS P8P67 has a very early UEFI BIOS. Whenever I try to boot a fresh macOS installation or configure OpenCore in pure UEFI mode, the board either fails to recognize the boot entry, or throws OCB: LoadImage failed errors.

If I enable CSM/Legacy, OpenCore installs macos but after the install it doesn't boot. I want a stable configuration that plays nice with this specific board's quirky UEFI implementation without breaking system stability.

Has anyone successfully run OpenCore on an ASUS P8P67? What are the correct BIOS settings (CSM, Fast Boot, Secure Boot options, etc.) or OpenCore drivers/quirks needed for a reliable boot on this chipset?